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TopicBaby It's Cold Outside
Llarian
11/16/21 12:56:05 AM
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NFUN posted...
You can't apply modern sensibility naively to a person in order to vilify them, but you can do so to their actual work which exemplifies the issues. FDR probably made a speech that supported segregation at some point, yet we still laud him; we just don't quote the speech as something to honor. The debate was never about whether... whoever wrote the song is a rapist who should be blacklisted, just the song is creepy as fuck and maybe there's other shitty christmas music we can listen to instead

also i don't think there's any bait here. he didn't even mention the controversy in any detail
He doesn't have to go into detail, it's rehashed every holiday season for reasons I will never understand. The rest of your point is fair and well taken.

I did not know it was written by a Tony award winning songwriter.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser

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