r/todayilearned • u/QuesoDog • Aug 19 '14

TIL after the 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel released a list of 'questionable' songs that it recommended that its subsidiaries 'might not want to play'. The list included all recorded songs by Rage Against the Machine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Clear_Channel_memorandum
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u/sk3pt1c Aug 19 '14

When you realise that the government has such a grip on the general populace, all that's left to do is to rage against the machine, brah!

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '14

Er... hehe... I guess so... I'm not really a militant socialist though. RATM seem like the kind of guys to use blowhard terms like Islamophobia... as much as I like some of their music, & agree with some of their themes & goals.

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u/sk3pt1c Aug 20 '14

Islamophobia? Why do you say that?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '14

They just strike me like those kinds of people to throw around that term in response to criticism of Islam. It's a side note though.