Music

Right-Wing Fans Of Rage Against The Machine Have Only Just Realised What The Band Sing About

"Deciding you're no longer a fan of Rage Against the Machine after 20 years for speaking politics is like being a bird lover all your life then deciding you don't like them anymore because they have feathers."

by Joseph Earp  11 June 2020
Rage Against The Machine

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Over the last few days, a sub-set of conservative Rage Against The Machine fans the world over have been working out that the band is political.

Of course, this is not news to the rest of us. The rest of us have known for at least a decade that a song like ‘Killing in the Name of’ is a takedown of the systemic racism in the police department, and that ‘Bulls on Parade’ is a song about the American military industrial complex.

But these conservative Rage Against The Machine stans have presumably spent their many years listening to the band while plugging their ears with their fingers. After all, since the band’s lead guitarist Tom Morello has been advocating for Black Lives Matter causes online, these RATM-heads have been decrying his “sudden” move towards the political.

And Morello has been telling them what for.

Anyway, in the hours since this trend of pissy right-wing ‘Killing in the Name of’ devotees has emerged online, they have become the source of much mockery. Twitter users around the world are lining up to dunk on them, resulting in one of those 12 hour stretches where different variations of the same joke get made in increasingly funny ways.

I mean, just check it out yourself:

Truly it’s been Twitter at its absolute best.