This surfaced a few days ago, Dicky doing an interview with the shithead anti-vax guy who got some attention for wearing a star of david to protests:
https://thehighwire.com/videos/episode- ... rave-ones/
I watched it, dicky basically confirms everything about his anti-vax stance. A few interesting things:
1. He's too much of a coward to actually articulate what his anti-vax position is. Some fans had tried to hope he was "just" anti-mandate but he makes some undefined mentions of how vaccines themselves are bad and pinpoints his generally being anti-vax to when his kids were born circa 2015 and he and his wife "did the research" and thought vaccines were harmful. But at no point in the interview was he willing to really say what he imagined the problem with vaccines are or was he willing to articulate support for, say, his host or rfk jr's comparisons of anti-vax activists to jews during the holocaust or any of the other nonsense he's gotten himself associated with now. just incredibly cowardly.
2. He does allude to coming to anti-vax stuff via being anti-gmo/monsanto and "fake food"/"real food" dichotomy. Which would very VERY in keeping with 90s lib/left activism. I mean, shit, Jello Biafra use to rail against "frankenfood" on the reg. Very easy to go from that kind of green party-libertarian alliance stuff to anti-vaccine. it's the pipeline I suspected for dicky given his background and I was right. He also mentioned how he was influenced by rfk jr from his enviro work and then thought it was weird to not listen to him on vaccines too. Just a sadly predictable pipeline.
3. He did some revisionist history on the bosstones, claiming they were never anti-anyone regardless of background or ideology, conveniently neglecting to mention their years supporting the ARA, the militant anti-racist org that was a precursor to antifa organizing would physically attack neo-nazis and their organizations. so i call bullshit on dicky's convenient "i was always just about getting along with anyone, why did everyone
else change" shtick.
It's sad. At no point does he recognize he has agency in all the things that have happened to him. I wouldn't recommend watching the show and giving it the traffic, but I had to hear it myself. I was glad he more or less confirmed all the rest of the band told him to fuck off.
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