Turn It Down

Apparently, there’s enough hate to go around

Written by Administrator
Sunday, 15 June 2008
While the Turn It Down Campaign focuses on white power music and the presence of white power groups in music subcultures, we would be remiss not to mention a new avenue of hate music, brought to us by many of the same bands producing racist hate music around the world today. Smashing Rainbows features violently anti-gay tracks by relatively well-known white power bands like Angry Aryans, Empire Falls and Chaos 88, as well as eighteen other bands from the U.S. and eight other countries. Song titles include “Smear the Queer,” “Killer of Faggots” and “Torture and Humiliation.” The cover art for the compilation shows a man’s face, twisted up in anger, and his fist is toward the viewer as though he is throwing a punch. One catalog writeup for the album claims Smashing Rainbows is “defending straight people everywhere.” Those track titles aren’t “defensive.” They are overtly hostile and seem to be calling for violence against the gay community. Released in February, this compilation is a product of a newer white power label called Fetch the Rope. (Subtle, we know.) Fetch the Rope Records claims close alliance with virtually every major producer and distributor of white power music and propaganda in existence today, including Stormfront, NSM88 and Final Stand Records. Fetch the Rope’s website claims, “Our purpose is to disseminate White Power music as widely as possible around the World. We are an introductory stepping stone for White people who are discovering the White Nationalist movement for the first time....especially our White youth.” Fetch the Rope plainly states that the label exists to infiltrate our youth’s music subcultures and indoctrinate young people into the white power movement. They are using homophobia as one avenue to do so, as part of the white power movement’s efforts to expand the list of fears and hostilities from which they draw new membership. June is commonly regarded as “Pride Month” by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered community. Turn It Down will be in touch with GLAAD and other organizations devoted to protecting human rights in the gay community, but our June news update seemed a good time and place to inform people involved with our campaign about this detestable new approach to recruiting for the white power movement. Smashing Rainbows is pathetic in every sense; hate is hate, and we should definitely Turn It Down.
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 June 2008 )