rant · moment 7 of 17
Lil Nas X's Satan Shoes and the Limits of Progressive Outrage
from #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show · #245
4 min
Tim riffs on Lil Nas X's satanic-themed shoes and video, and poses an escalating hypothetical about what would actually be "too much" for people defending it, tying it to arguments once made about gay marriage.
- Tim was made fun of as a kid for being gay because he was in theater and more effeminate then than now.
- Most straight men Tim knows are useless—they cry, barely work, and live off women lost in porn.
- Tim asks if there's a middle ground: respecting gay people while not exposing children to someone twerking on Satan.
- The Satan shoes with pentagrams and human blood in them are excessive, and he's never even heard the song.
- Tim asks what would constitute 'too much'—if Lil Nas X had actually performed explicit acts with Satan on video.
- Progressives are obtuse for not understanding why a singer whose fanbase includes children selling satanic shoes bothers people in a deeply Christian country.
- It's as if someone's deliberately enacting every argument once made against gay marriage—letting twelve-year-olds do whatever they want, putting Satan on MTV.
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