Neil Young - Barn Documentary

Neil lost me as a fan with his ignorant rants about HIV and AIDS.

He is dead to me and has been since the 80’s. 
 

He is as ignorant as Kid Rock.

@larsman Un Edited.

Neil Young blamed homosexuals for AIDS:
In an interview with Melody Maker in 1985, Neil Young backed Reagan’s gun control policies and said of AIDS, “You go to a supermarket and you see a faggot behind the fuckin’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.” Needless to say, Young almost certainly regrets that horrific statement and quickly moved away from right-wing politics. He wrote the furious anti-George H.W. Bush screed “Rockin’ in the Free World” in 1989 and was one of George W. Bush’s most vocal critics in the 2000s. 

@larsman here is a summary of what this vile old man said.

Now, public health comments Neil Young made during the AIDS epidemic are surfacing online. In an interview with Melody Maker in 1985, Young slid into a homophobic rant as he spoke about Reagan’s gun control policies and AIDS. In particular, Young called gay people ‘f—ggots’ and tied them to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. “You go to a supermarket, and you see a f—ggot behind the f—kin’ cash register; you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

 

The comments have since been republished by numerous other publications, including The Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone.

Young has found himself on both sides of the political divide. In 1989 he wrote the anti-George H.W. Bush song, “Rockin’ in the Free World.” He was also one of the most vocal critics of George. W. Bush in the 2000s.

But in the 1980s, Young was a vocal supporter of Ronald Reagan’s policies. In the early days, AIDS was thought to be a disease spread by homosexuality, particularly by gay men, who were frequently targeted and ostracized. AIDS was even called the Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID) for a brief time.

 

Young made those comments 37 years ago, but it also highlights how a person’s opinions can change over the course of nearly 40 years. The reaction online to these comments has been a bitter divide in what seems like a politically charged debate. Those who support Young say he’s allowed to change his views over the course of three decades. Others point to the hypocrisy of a grandstanding public figure.

“He was 40 years old at the time he made that comment, and hasn’t apologized for it since,” one commenter on Reddit blasted.

@larsman cuts both ways. People now days cancel people for less. Especially if they are a conservative and wore Black Face to a party in college back in the 60's

This is one effed up world and the clowns in DC really muck it all up.

@dadork you get the point. I am apolitical and care less. Point is Neil is a scumbag.

Oh and Trudeau is not a Democrat he is a wimp and hated in Canada.

better get a better search engine. Fake outrage eh? Love guys like you.

Tate Reeves Mississippi.

Kay Ivy Gov Alabama

Pitman NJ

Sen Tommy Norment VA.

apology accepted dorkda.

No Neil Young in my collection or any of other hypocrites. 

@stuartk Well I am not supporting that bunch. Regardless you can but not a dime of my money is going their way period.

@stuartk have a great day.

I feel that entertainers should just entertain. 

@stuartk no provocation. You have your position and I have mine. 
 

Same reason I sold my condo at Trump Tower in Chicago. He is an idiot and I will not support a clown like Trump or Young. 
 

@larsman That is your position and you are entitled to it.

What Young did is BS and at the same time Rogan is entitled to that same right.

2 way street unless you are........

You can spew your hate, and political points of view all you want Mr Entertainer but when no one buys your music or ART...do not cry about it.

It Is Better to Keep Quiet and Be Thought a Fool Than to Speak and Remove All Doubt.—Empeco

@dadork when I bought it I did not know anything about his politics. In 2007 he was a Limousine Liberal from NYC building condos in Chicago. He was not the DJT that became POTUS.

It was not his politics that made me sell, it was the unethical treatment of friends of mine that were contractors on the TT Project by his management at Trump International.

The Fish Stinks From The Head Down.

@dadork I am principled not political.