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  1. Jason Aldean Claims ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Music Video Did Not Have ‘Racist Undertones’ Because ‘People of All Color’ Are ‘Doing Stuff’ In It
    #Variety #News #JasonAldean #TryThatinaSmallTown

    variety.com/2023/music/news/ja

  2. It's rarely a good thing when #Oklahoma makes national news. But The New Yorker's coverage of the crap coming out of McCurtain County does a great job of illustrating ongoing issues both in the state and the journalism industry. #TryThatInASmallTown.

    archive.li/4XoAo

  3. People in small towns are not "better" in any way - they're just more spread out. There is good and bad everywhere. #TryThatInASmallTown

  4. Leave the small town and burn up inner city neighborhoods when we are protesting Black people losing their lives.

    #trythatinasmalltown

  5. #ICYMI A TikTok'er named Destinee Stark just obliterates #JasonAldean's racist #TryThatInASmallTown video, finding that just in the first 30 seconds it's already full of fake stock footage... much of it not even filmed in the U.S.... despite the fact Aldean claimed it was "ALL real news footage". #Debunked tiktok.com/@destineenstark/vid

  6. Debunking right wing stochastic propaganda of @Jason_Aldean #TryThatInASmallTown
    @destineestark on Tik Tok— footage is NOT ‘a small town’ it’s foreign, it’s stock footage, it’s Kyiv 2014, Canada 2013.. amazing #phony #fraud #JasonAldean full video here: tiktok.com/t/ZT8RGffv4/

  7. @freemo @georgetakei I think he’s saying he committed an act of violence 👀

    It’s a reference to #TryThatInASmallTown, an anti-violent crime song by #JasonAldean

  8. In case anyone thinks I'm exaggerating...

    "It made me feel disgusted inside." Protesters in Sanford say counter protesters held long guns and yelled racial slurs

    Hundreds gathered in Sanford Saturday to demand justice in the killing of George Floyd.

    June 7, 2020

    SANFORD, #Maine — "As protesters peacefully marched along the streets of #Sanford Saturday, they were met by an anti-protest group holding long guns.

    "'It was to instill fear. It was a scare tactic,' said protester Shane Reisinger.

    "The protesters also heard the group yelling racial slurs.

    "'As we were chanting 'Black Lives Matter,' we were met with 'no they don't.' We were met with a gentleman who was riding around on a bicycle, who clearly was not in his right mind, screaming 'white power," said Reisinger."

    newscentermaine.com/article/ne

    #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #TryThatInASmallTown

  9. A few years ago, I participated in a #BlackLivesMatter rally and march in one of the whitest towns in #Maine (really a city, but has that "small town feel"). Some of the locals hung out on their porches -- some of them holding guns. A couple of my friends asked why I was there -- instead of a rally in #PortlandMaine. "Because I needed to be an ally to folks who were standing up against #racism in a place where it might not be safe for them to do so. It's easy to be vocal when surrounded by fellow liberals. It's a lot harder when you're surrounded by rednecks with guns."
    #TryThatInASmallTown #BLM

  10. Just looked up the lyrics of that Jason Aldean song and even if I were to buy his line that there's nothing about race in it (like I'd never heard of a dog whistle, or something)... even so, the *most charitable* interpretation is still that small towns are full of gun-toting, hostile people, "looking for a fight" (Aldean's words!), itching to mete out vigilante "justice" for any provocation. Seriously, gross.

    #JasonAldean #SmallTown #TryThatInASmallTown

  11. The whole idea that #JasonAldean is from Macon, a city of 150,000 people, and sings about small town life, is the whole deal with popular #countryMusic; it’s a bunch of city boys cosplaying as rednecks. #music #tryThatInASmallTown