For a group who are constantly claiming to be all about free speech, conservatives really seem to hate it when someone disagrees with them. To that end, the controversy surrounding country singer Jason Aldean’s new single and video, “Try That Iin a Small Town” has inevitably led to racist harassment for one social media user.
Destinee Stark was one of many who criticized the lyrics in Aldean’s song for glorifying gun violence and attacking the Black Lives Matter protests. The video is filmed in front of a Tennessee courthouse where a Black teenager was lynched in 1927. Following the backlash, Aldean released a statement where he said that “there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage.” On TikTok, Stark posted a video debunking his claims. As it turns out, a lot of the clips are stock footage from other countries. In response to the post, Stark has been inundated with racist harassment from Aldean’s supporters.
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“I get online all the time and I share my opinions online all the time. It’s something that I do,” Stark told NBC News. “And that first video that I made, I posted it at like ... 11:30 p.m. I didn’t think it would go anywhere. And I woke up to thousands of messages about it.”
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