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Originally Posted by demonrail666
That's the tricky one for me. There is an underlying racism within a lot of the indie scene but there's also plenty of white people perfectly happy to listen to a Luther Vandross CD and who would never consider listening to a rock record, but who'd go mental if their daughter started dating a black guy. I'm not saying that people's cultural choices have nothing to do with their political ones but I certainly don't think they're reducible to them.
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Yeah, listening to music made by black people is certainly not an indication of an indivdual's politcs and anti-racist stance in many cases. It's the same as when people marry, say, a Chinese person and still hold dodgy views when it comes to immigration and things like that.