I felt that there was an elitist attitude there.”
It’s fine if you’re diverse like them, you know? But showing up with a deer on the bumper doesn’t fly in Marin County, you know? My form of eating organic doesn’t vibe with theirs. They talk about how diverse they are, and things like that. As he told Joe Rogan in 2016, “I kind of got sick of the Bay Area-the attitudes of people there. I was crushed when I learned that one of the reasons he moved from the Bay Area to Colorado some years back was to get away from liberal smugness to me, that meant the left had lost him for good. While Hetfield has always been cagey about which political team he plays on (maybe none?), he gives off an unmissable libertarian vibe. Cobb’s piece stoked a perverse fantasy that I’ve been harboring ever since I heard what happened in Uvalde, Texas: What if James Hetfield, Metallica’s front man, came out as an advocate for stricter gun laws? As it happens, I read Jelani Cobb’s New Yorker piece about American gun culture on May 29, just a few hours before I walked over to see Metallica headline Boston Calling, the annual music festival held near my home. Now, in the wake of an ongoing rash of mass shootings in this country, I’m starting to think there isn’t any hope left. What I’m trying to tell you is that my students scared the shit out of me. If my students liked Metallica and Metallica was a force for good, my thinking went, then there was hope for the world. And yet we had something in common: Like me, they loved Metallica.īack then, whenever I came across a Metallica member saying something politically enlightened (it was more often than I would have thought) in a print interview or on TV, I felt some relief.
One day, I made the mistake of bringing up homosexuality, something I knew full well that my students were uncomfortable with by the end of the discussion, my only out gay student was so unnerved by what some of his classmates had said that he never came back to class. Another student wrote that he had no respect for any woman who would get an abortion. One of my students shared that he had a friend in the Ku Klux Klan. "It effectively takes away the only guaranteed safe space from the majority of the entire LGBTQ population here," he explained.When I was in graduate school in the Midwest in the 1990s, I taught a freshman rhetoric class. He said in the interview that if the law had been in place when he was a freshman in high school, he would not have come out. Moricz is currently the youngest plaintiff in a lawsuit against Florida's "Don't Say Gay Bill," which would prevent public school teachers from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity between kindergarten and third grade. I just had to be clever about it," Moricz told Good Morning America per the Herald-Tribune. "But I shouldn't have had to be because I don't exist in a euphemism. "I knew that the threat to cut the mic was very real, so I wasn't going to let that happen. He claimed that his school principal, Stephen Covert, called him into his office and told him that if he mentioned his activism for the LGBTQ+ community, his microphone would be turned off. According to USA Today, prior to the graduation speech he spoke out on Twitter about the school administration's decision.