Music

This song is how I found out about Anita Hill

My buddy works security at a bar. A few weeks back he sends me a picture of a guy sitting there wearing a shirt with SS lightning bolts on it. The manager wouldn't let him throw the guy out because he wasn't otherwise causing any issues (as if a Nazi sitting at your bar isn't already a big enough issue)

I was at work myself, so in no position to go start shit at this bar. But I also wasn't about to just let these assholes infest a place I like to go drink at.

I remembered this bar has one of those tough tunes jukeboxes that you can queue songs up on from an app, and as it turns out you don't actually have to be physically at the bar to use that power.

This bar is also a relatively family-friendly restaurant during the day, so the jukebox selection is a little bit neutered, but I still manage to get a decent little anti-fascist playlist going. I played a couple songs, and when the Billy Bragg & Wilco cover of All You Fascists came on, he apparently got a little visibly frustrated and went outside to smoke.

When he came back in he was greeted with this song.

He then sat there looking around the bar looking around trying to figure out who was playing all of this music that was clearly targeted at him, but of course finding no one because I was about 5 miles away.

At some point in the middle of my little impromptu DJ set, someone queues up a kid rock song, I'm pretty sure it was him. It picked right up after that with a cover of Bella Ciao.

After only about an hour of this he was packing it up to leave.

It wasn't much, but it's one of the things I'm proudest of having done in my life. Those touchtunes credits I think were money well-spent.

But I wasn't quite done yet. I wanted to make sure I didn't have to do this again. So I fired up a throwaway Google account and left a 1-star review of this bar complaining about Nazi boy. This caused a bit of a stir among the management, and so now my friend is allowed to kick out Nazis.