meta link: A lesson in good vs. bad irony thanks to Amanda Palmer by sparkymonster

[seperis]

From sparkymonster: A lesson in good vs. bad irony thanks to Amanda Palmer.

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Amanda Palmer of the "Dresden Dolls" and "Evelyn/Evelyn" fame decided to talk about her dislike of Lady Gaga last night on twitter. Among other things, Gaga is a sell out, is just like Justin Bieber, and Palmer really dislikes the product placement in "Telephone".

Then Amanda Palmer shared this:
ironic product placement is only ok if you take no money & beyond that give all the income to something ironic. like the Klan.

Let me just repeat. Something ironic. like the Klan.

*****This might be potentially triggering for violence, as sparkymonster illustrates her point with pictures of actual lynchings of African Americans in the US.*****

Amanda Parmer's bizarre feats of self-promotion have been questionable at best and plain offensive at worst before now, but this is--I keep erasing what I was going to say here. I don't know what to say that encompasses how revolting this is, how lightly she takes a horrific and destructive part of both our past and our present, the systematic murder of African Americans because they demanded equality, the deliberate attempt to use murder as both a method of silencing and a warning.

Okay, just--what the fuck was that? I can't even tell how the hell that train of thought starts.

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Comments

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Note that AP is making this "ironic" "suggestion" about a video that co-stars a black singer. Because, I guess, that makes it so much more ... ironic (http://meloukhia.net/2009/07/hipster_racism.html)?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*shudders* She layers her fails like some kind of weird cake.