Why do dirty hippies act like John Lennon was a saint
He physically abused both his wives, emotionally abused his son, was openly homophobic and antisemetic, was controlling and misogynist, he literally made yoko ono write a list of all the men she’d been with and shamed her for it, was openly racist, wrote a song called “woman is the n-word of the world” (except actually used the slur) and never actually did any activist work, just posed with whatever groups and signs were counter-culture for the media, stated that the idea of disabled people touching him made him sick, used to pretend to be intellectually disabled on stage as a joke, and probably tons more shit that was never documented
Stop worshipping john lennon. The Beatles are mediocre and he was a horrifying human being
>Was Anti-Semitic You say that like it's a bad thing. He also opposed the birtish occupation of Ireland, so he was like 50% Based. I don't mind classical socialists who completely hate the system and the jews that control it, for instance I could see him disavowing hillary if He was still alive.
Julian Murphy
The Beatles aren't mediocre but Lennon is a piece of shit and his non-beatle music sucks ass, even fucking Ringo has better solo albums (although Ringo is a literal god who makes perfect music and spreads peace and love).
Daniel Ortiz
i fail to see the problem here. he was ok. take, john lennon, he had some 'ok pipes' and all that. #okpipes
Benjamin Nguyen
>He also opposed the birtish occupation of Ireland, so he was like 50% Based
t. paddy o'mally from boston
Blake Cook
> n-word also you didn't get the point of the song or this is just low quality b8
Joshua Fisher
>the beatles aren't mediocre
wrong
Alexander Adams
t. rebellious 15 year old
Blake Nelson
>I used to be cruel to my woman >I beat her and kept apart from the things that she loved >Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene >And I'm doing the best that I can
He never hit Yoko
Gavin Hernandez
funny, the only people who actually like the beatles are rebellious 15 year olds. while in the 60s the only people that liked them were conformist suburbanites
Samuel Phillips
That's why conformist suburbanites burned their records, right? Your underage is showing, squirt.
Robert Lopez
hippies went extinct in 70s
Nicholas Myers
Nobody under the age of 50 cares about John Lennon, fuck off grandpa
Mason Butler
Wow. He's Sup Forums incarnate. You should bow down before the Almighty Lennon.
Jack Adams
>confusing political affiliation with cultural importance
if you think the beatles were the first musical artists to ever be sexualized and that conservatives were ever comfortable with that by the beatles' presence, you're dumber than i though
Anthony Thompson
he was a nigger lover and he deserved everything he got.
Brody Campbell
>Openly homophobic and antisemetic WRONG! The Beatles manager was Jewish AND gay and he and John got along just fine!
>Openly racist and wrote a song called "Woman is The Nigger of The World" The lyrics are printed on the cover of Some Time in New York. Read them sometime before jumping to conclusions! And if he was racist why did he marry a Japanese woman? >Never did any activist work How about spending thousands of dollars internationally on billboards with the statement "War is Over if you want it"? Or staying in bed for a week to protest the war in Viet Nam? Or returning his MBE medal to protest Britain's involvement in Viet Nam?
Grant you you ARE right in the fact that he DID physically abuse Cynthia and was emotionally distant from Julian and that he had a phobia of disabled people.
That being said The Beatles are GOAT and his personal life shouldn't affect one's enjoyment of their music. And if you know ANYTHING about The Beatles and you've already demonstrated that you DON'T you would know they were ALL equally horrific people.
I am sick to death of everybody pointing out what a jerk John was but yet stay silent on the other three who were equally as bad as John.
Nobody's perfect! Check yourself before you criticize somebody you've never even met and never will faggot!
Luke White
i am literally a better person and better musician than john lennon
Brody Gonzalez
It makes me happy when I see people unironically type like this because it shows that not everybody on the internet is a jaded asshole who can only communicate in post-irony. You keep doing you, kid.
Nathaniel Martinez
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Brayden Carter
>they were ALL equally horrific people
Examples? I hadn't heard anything excessively bad about them.
Adam Baker
Go to bed Paul!
Ian Harris
>while in the 60s the only people that liked them were conformist suburbanites >conformist suburbanites >conformist MAAANNNNNNNNNNN
go watch loose change faggot
Kayden Collins
No, coming from an actual Irishman from Ireland you stupid anglo.
Easton Peterson
>He physically abused both his wives
This is wrong
he hit the first one only once and he never hit yoko
>used to pretend to be intellectually disabled on stage as a joke
wow who gives a fuck? at worst he was just a shock jock who tried to be a hippie later on
Blake James
Paul: Smarmy little two faced hypocritical back stabber
George: Openly hated his fans and would break or destroy anything handed to him for an autograph
Ringo: has been known to berated audience members at his shows and have meltdowns during interviews and walk out on them!
Recommended reading: The Beatles by Bob Spitz
Wonderful Tonight by Patti Boyd
A Twist of Lennon by Cynthia Twist (Formerly Cynthia Lennon)
The Private World of Paul McCartney by Jo Jo Laine Hustler Magazine June 1985
Tyler Sullivan
george slept with ringo's wife ringo used hit his wife and paul was seen as giant egomaniac and control freak around the white album years
there was also a story of paul getting yelled at in the early years for helping lennon take pics of girls panties when they weren't looking. which is pretty funny actually but im not sure how true it is
Ethan Garcia
Thanks. I'll have to look for those and do some reading.
Dylan Sanders
nah you can have your propaganda for yourself
Gavin Jenkins
Yes. Milo Hanrahan is better.
Cooper Cox
>Or staying in bed for a week to protest the war in Viet Nam
That's being a lazy faggot and not an activist.
However, I agree that sometimes one's music can't be tied with his/her personal life. But let's be real. John Lennon was more of a piece of shit than a good musician.
Aiden Harris
Are you the Queen of England?
Easton Wilson
I think I like him more now Thanks for the info
Anthony Rogers
Isn't that Paul tho?
Kevin Gutierrez
>But let's be real. John Lennon was more of a piece of shit than a good musician.
nah i feel like after his death he was seen as a saint when he really wasn't but now in recent years especially on sites like reddit or tumblr the pendulum is swinging back the other way (YESSSS) and he's seen as a giant piece of shit who was pure evil
when in reality he's in the middle. not a peaceful protester like the media makes him out to be but also not the evil piece of shit that the younger reddit generation sees him as
Ayden Long
Getting Better was co-written by John and Paul and John sang backing vocals.
Both have stated though that lyric was from John: John in his final playboy interview, and Paul in a Howard Stern interview.
Paul says the line was just bravado and John never actually hit women, but John says differently, stating that he did.
Jaxson Gomez
OP's post is a copypasta from tumblr, but yeah a lot of it is still heavily exaggerated.
John Lennon obviously was not a saint. He was an incredibly flawed guy, who openly admitted he was incredibly flawed during a time when it all could have been swept under the rug, and actively tried to repent for what he had done and bring as much good into the world as he was capable of doing.
That's not even to say he was successful, but out of all the scumbag people in the music industry during that time, it seems strange to single him out.
Alexander Gutierrez
>can't bring himself to type out nigger >uses the term intellectually disabled gosh what a fag you are OP
Jaxson Gonzalez
you missed my point retard i wasn't recommending loose change to you i was saying a faggot like you would probably enjoy that shit
Hunter Reed
Weird cause I always heard Yoko was a bitch but I'm not familiar with the history so...
Ethan Perry
All 4 of them were scumbags, but it doesn't make Yoko's antics any less amusing.
"One shouldn't let the past define their present, but instead counteract what you're ashamed of. That's what I'm doing, or at least striving to. I've never had a clearer horizon, and I want it to be even clearer for the next generation of kids who may have the potential to be blind to race, sex, sexual orientation. Y'know? Fuck cares about all that shit. Just judge me for me, not for what I look like, or if I like penis or vagina, or if I wear a turban or a blouse." - Rolling Stone (1970)
what a cunt
Daniel Cruz
people who are homophobic, antisemetic, and racist don't just like.. completely hate every single person in those categories. "I'm not racist, I have two black friends, i just think they happen to be genetically inferior and predisposed to violence!!!" i don't really know fucking shit about lennon, but your arguments are weak.
it's completely possible to be racist only against black people, or to be racist in a fetishizing way that would cause him to accept a japanese woman.
plenty of outright sexist men have no problems fucking women, they just literally do not see them as full humans.
