It’s been like this for a couple of years, however have you ever ever observed that the dudes who scream from the rafters about “cancel tradition” by no means shut up and by no means go away? It’s nearly prefer it doesn’t exist and it’s only a strawman for “I mentioned one thing you disagree with and now I get to play the sufferer.” One such dude is Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan, who you could recall has a “Fuck Cancel Tradition” guitar that his frontman David Draiman “couldn’t be extra proud” about.

It seems that though he’s spouted the identical drained speaking level on social media for some time now that far proper commentators, abusive comedians, and different sketchy individuals, he thinks issues are “so divided, now greater than ever.” At the very least, that’s what he mentioned throughout an interview with Planet Rock‘s Wyatt Wendels throughout final month’s Obtain competition (as transcribed by Blabbermouth).

“I often am perhaps extra cryptic in my solutions ’trigger I like to depart it up to your personal interpretation on the way you view it. However, yeah, it’s simply the divisive nature of simply the state of the world and the trade and the way issues have been happening in America particularly. It’s been fairly loopy, in the event you’ve seen. I don’t understand how the media and the information covers that over right here. So it’s been a tough go. And I believe… I don’t know what the hell occurred. We’re so divided, now greater than ever. You go on social media and all people’s there… It’s, like, you get up within the morning prepared to begin… Who can I assault right now? We focus a lot on our variations and the issues that we dislike or disagree on or hate. And it’s simply form of… When’s it gonna be over? It’s identical to one huge mood tantrum from everybody.”

Whereas I agree that the idea of “cancel tradition” is bullshit, performative nonsense when it occurs, I additionally assume shitty individuals must be taken to process. Now, I additionally wish to level out that so far as we all know, Donegan is an honest man. He’s not a Nazi, nor has he actually mentioned or carried out something to get “canceled” over.

However it’s an fascinating tact while you’re identified for posting divisive content material on social media and parroting the basic boomer criticism of “cancel tradition” after which surprise out loud why shit’s so “divisive.”