20 Replies to “Old Left vs New Left”

  2. I did blackface in a Minstrel show in the fifties along with the rest of my cub scout troop. Who gives a shit. I’ll bet that Joni Mitchell could care less that snowflakes might be troubled. She made a great black pimp look which was very 1970s.

  3. “The Telegraph has contacted Mitchell’s representatives for comment.”

    No matter how much you hate the media, its not enough.

  4. My cocoa face was the 1960s in junior high school. Eff em. We had an East Indian classmate. He didn’t need the cocoa.

        1. Also where are the gender appropriation protests? A lot of people going womenface these days.

  7. Haven’t heard Joni running around calling every one raaaaaaaaacist, like the Turd does.

  8. Pffft.
    Me and a friend dressed up as KKK one Halloween.
    Outside the house party we went to – way too old for trick or treating – we burnt a small cross on the front lawn.
    We thought the KKK were bona fide scary monsters.

  9. If you care about how people you’re never gonna meet dress, then you are part of the problem.
    Canadians are getting worse and worse. I remember the brutal takedown of a girl who dressed as a stormtrooper.

  11. For a folk singer who rose to prominence in the 1960s Joni Mitchell is as salt of the earth and conservative as they come. Ridiculously, I came to her work after researching her uncle, Gordon K McKee, a Sergeant in the Canadian Army who fell at the Moro River on the way to Ortona.

    In a 2013 CBC interview, she said ‘”I was not a part of the anti-war movement either’….referring to the protests against the Vietnam War. ‘I played in Fort Bragg. I went the Bob Hope route [performing for troops] because I had uncles who died in the war, and I thought it was a shame to blame the boys who were drafted.”

    In that same interview she went on to say the hippies became “this liberated, spoiled, selfish generation…”

    I won’t cheer for people trying to tear her down over some imagined transgression. In the 60s when it would have been easy for her to don the reflexive anti-war garb of so many of her unthinking contemporaries, she chose not to. That showed some courage.

    1. You sound the James who doesn’t bash Boomers with every post. That’s nice. And regardless of her politics, I have always appreciated Joni’s utterly unique music, and oddly timed rhythms. She created her OWN sound. Nothing else like it … before or since. But it’s nice to read that she was an independent-enough thinker to not jump on the anti-Vietnam war bandwagon … although it is the hindsight of Vietnam … and every other FAILED, LOSING, USA war since then … that has me walking away from Russia’s minor incursion into Ukraine.

      https://youtu.be/cRjQCvfcXn0?si=OAsWifEI01rkedDv

      ”We are billion year old carbon …”

      “and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the Garden”

      Let me remind you that it was actually OK in the Early 70’s to acknowledge God, His Word, and His Garden. Joni’s sentiment is spot on … we need to get right with God … We need to seek His Garden.

  14. Joni had a bunch of songs through her catalog that mentioned race and all kinds of inequality. She had lots of black musicians play with her. Joni was a positive influence because she saw way past the trivial issues and described people and the world on many levels.

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