Bill Corgan appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Info Wars radio show on Thursday, discussing political correctness in America. As the conversation turned towards liberal progressive “social justice warriors,” the Smashing Pumpkins frontman likened the “hashtag generation” (as he called it) to a cult, Maoists and the Ku Klux Klan.
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In conversation, Corgan and Jones went back and forth lamenting over what they say are not “real liberals” but, basically, angry indoctrinated whiners. Or, as Jones put it, “because they just wanna hate somebody and they are literally like a dumb Klan guy that just pulls over on some black guy walking home from work and kills him ’cause they’re black. They want to just project something onto you.”
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Corgan continued the thought, saying, “Let’s flip the script here for a second. OK? And this is a very — I’m gonna try to say this in a sort of hypothetical Star Wars holodeck type of way. OK? If we could transport back to, you know, a much, much more racist — I’m not saying America doesn’t have a racist bent, so let’s put that out there to start with, but let’s go back to a time where racism was accepted, it was institutionalized. OK? If you could go back to Selma 1932 and the Klan member spitting in some person of color’s face, don’t you think that guy thought he was right, too? … So how is this any different?”
Watch a clip of their conversation here:
h/t Pitchfork