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The misogyny and homophobia charges are david mckenna at the heart of the Eminem controversy - he doesn't deny the controversy in it and neither would I - and they deserve a closer look. But Moby could david mckenna not be more clueless or wrong to accuse Marshall Mathers of racism, when Eminem offers the best cure for racism that popular music has offered david mckenna for decades. And, being familiar with Eminem's lyrics dating back to when I was sued for my Free Speech - he provided the soundtrack for our successful legal defense against the biggest financial institution on earth - I just don't know what Moby's anti-semitism charge is based on. Maybe the accusatory words simply play like a loop in Moby's brain, like a boring disassociated techno-track. The knee-jerk nature of the aging lyrics cops has become robotic, automatic. They've lost all sense of context, even as the kids of America have gained the ability to decipher context better than their parents precisely because a few good self-referential teachers like Bart Simpson, Buffy Summers, the South Park kids and Eminem have slipped through the censors' nets.
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