• Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Whoever wrote the Genius annotation admitted that he wasn’t harmed, but Roger’s criticizing Bad Authoritarians so he must mean China

    Nevermind that Israel, arguably Waters’ main political topic, actually did crush a student with a tank in Palestine

    ETA Oh my god, the annotation suggestion that mentions Corrie has been marked as a stretch

    • Raphaël A. Costeau@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 month ago

      And I would call his interpretation of “Watching TV” over simplistic, it’s a song that has the fucking verses:

      Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek//

      That no-good low-down dirty rat

      Who used to order his troops

      To fire on the women and children

      Imagine that imagine that

      And in the spring of '48

      Mao Tse-tung got quite irate

      And he kicked that old dictator Chiang

      Out of the state of China

      Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa

      And they armed the island of Quemoy

      And the shells were flying across the China Sea

      And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory

      Called Taiwan


      Instead of being an empty critique of authoritarianism, I consider this song much more a sincere lament of the direction that China was taking in the years of Deng given past history. A criticism that can be disagreed but that has its background of truth.

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