“A punk band isn’t rocking with the former Oath Keeper spokesperson who decided to wear the group’s shirt to a hearing Tuesday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The Descendents, an influential group of rockers known for albums like “Milo Goes to College” and “All,” weighed in on Jason Van Tatenhove sporting their merch during his testimony on the extremist group’s involvement in the Capitol attack.”
— Beelzububba (@Beelzububba) July 13, 2022
Duh
That's punk as fuck 🤘
— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) July 12, 2022
Damn did his jacket shrink in the wash or
— 🐝 Bee-rady 🐝 (@firescenes) July 13, 2022
😂😂😂
There’s only one Milo in my heart and he doesn’t wear a fucking frog pin
— AJ Northrop (@ajnorthrop) July 12, 2022
👇👇👇👇👇👇
Weird how y'all can be so quick and clear to respond when the entire GOP hasn't done so in over 18 months.
— Elvis Bob Rasputin (@Elvis_Bob) July 12, 2022
And Paul Ryan loves Rage Against The Machine…..they don't love him back though.
— JC 🇧🇲🇨🇦 (@skaguy) July 13, 2022
Well… I certainly didn’t have Descendents needing to carlify that they aren’t a Nazi band on my 2022 bingo card
— Barco Moogers (@MileEndYob) July 13, 2022
Yep.
Milo must be loosing his mind
— Maureen capelotti (@maureencapecod) July 13, 2022
🤣🤣🤣
Milo goes to testify.
— ReadyNow4TheFuture (@reeve_geary) July 12, 2022
I’m so confused. Are we in the twilight zone 👀
— Barb (@barblee77) July 13, 2022
Yes, barb, actually we are.
welp, when you sell t-shirts advertising your band, you can’t control what P.O.S. buys it and wears it. That is the risk you take. Not much to be done about it except to disavow what the P.O.S. does….and of course live a life in line with your disavowals.
I get that the Desendents are upset, but what I don’t get is why anyone should think the witness’s T-shirt implied that the Descendents supported the Oath Keepers when his testimony was so opposed to them. I’m not sure he even said he was ever a member – he said Rhodes offered him imployment and he accepted. It’s possible to work someplace where employment automatically makes you a member, but it’s not common.
Of course I don’t suppose the Descendenys are replying to the shirt, but to the interpretation so many have put on it – an interpretation which seems to me – incorrect – for want of more accurate words which might be offensive.
Van Tatenhove has stated that he was employed as a paid “propagandist” for the OathKeepers and is now seeking to redeem himself. Fine. More power to him. But he should not have drug the band’s Rep into his effort by wearing their gear on a national television appearance.
Hate to break it to tweet from “Beelzububba” but punk rock’s early days were filled with racists and sexists and homophobes. And, considering the genre’s whole ethos is about “rebelling against the system,” when the “system” is telling you that you’ve got to accept non-whites and women and sexual minorities as your equals, and you’re supposed to be “rebel against the system,” then the obvious result is racism, sexism and homophobia/transphobia.
I guess an easier way of putting it is “Not all punkers . . . .”