Conservative Trolls Want to Talk About Rap Music Instead of Jason Aldean. Don't Take the Bait

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ALL WEEK LONG, a culture war has been raging around country star Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” a turgid power ballad wrapped around an unsubtle warning to protesters and other outsiders: “Try that in a small town, see how far you make it down the road.” To many observers, that sounds uncomfortably close to the kind of threat that the Klan used to issue to civil rights activists, and that modern-day racists continue to spout today. The music video, which juxtaposes stock footage of Canadian protesters with scenes set at the site of a 1927 lynching, didn’t help dispel that impression. Scholars have noted the obvious parallels between “Try That in a Small Town” and white nationalist ideology; Aldean claims he’s just singing about “community” and neighborly harmony.

Some right-wing trolls, though, don’t want you to think too hard about any of that. They’d rather talk about rap music.