Also, Fantano is clearly more of a hip-hop fan than a rock fan in the first place. It’s the genre of music he talks the most about and follows the most closely in general.

“Anyone who says a bunch of vile shit and tries to play it off as satire or shitposting can go straight to hell.”

Go watch his reviews of DAMN., and To Pimp a Butterfly. It should be pretty clear that Fantano is nowhere near the alt-right. He’s pretty clearly just fucking around. I think he’s the kind of person who’s more interested in the art than the artist, which is why he can fawn over problematic figures. At most, he’s a…

The whole point of satire is that, without context, it appears to be the real thing. Speaking of, this Fader article is lacking entirely in context. Do you propose that sarcasm be banned to avoid this type of confusion entirely, or will you continue to take hitpieces like this at face value?

if this hitpost was about his MBDTF review, then i fully support it.

What a load of hokum. Thatistheplan was unfunny, to be sure, but the notion that Fantano is some sort of crypto-fascist provocateur is preposterous. I think the goal here was to frighten or outrage people who don’t know him, because anyone who has even a passing familiarity with Fantano will see right through this…

Call Me Carlos the Dwarf - I would find it hard to believe they cast Amy Acker if they didn’t have this in mind! OTOH, Marvel never really knows what to do with her, like the time they cast her as Coulson’s ex-girlfriend on Marvel Agents of SHIELD.