I'd do literally anything to be in tht pit

One of the problems with growing up in a place where white people are the minority, or even just not an overwhelming majority, is that it's difficult to wrap your head around some of the mentalities that accompany living in overwhelmingly white places. In the context of DC, it was really like a diss rap against some kids who would blindly judge based on race. It would be obvious that it wasn't directed at "all those black people pulling the race card" or anything like that. Transpose it to a place like the Pacific Northwest (or Poland), and there's a huge segment of the listening public who will basically take it as something much more political, and mainly aimed at white progressives (because they don’t really know any black people, and perceive them as a semi-conscious monolith anyway)

This is hilarious 🤣

The word white' attracts nazis like pigs to shit.

Jah Bless

What would be so wrong with that? Oh yeah, can’t take pride in your white heritage, customs, traditions, culture. Only everything else.

I'm hoping somebody would done this kind of show in those TV talent series (Voice, X-Factor or others) but I doubt audience would be so in it :(

he say Washin' Dc?

Nazi punks Nazi punks Fuk off!!!!!

I’ll never forget this era BB. I was in the front row at Club C.O.D. in Chicago in ‘82. Yes, weren’t many other women up there, but I’m South Side of the Chicago Irish.

ok perhaps this is hindsight but a song called guilty of being white seems like its begging to be coopted by the alt right. it sounds like a tom mcdonald song title

McKaye can try to twist it and play safe but the message of the song is clear and he can't take it back or otherwise try to spin it. It's clearly an identitarian song, end of debate. He should be honest and own up to it, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

"guilty of being white" is a brilliant song for the 2020´s. ian was far ahead of his time.

Extremaly left music

one of the only people in punk smart enough to express the grievances of working class whites without advocating for violence or being a criminal

Sweet

I'm so glad to hear this....Ive loved minor threat since the 80's and....love the straightedge deal, as if the crowd I was hanging with would have taken a hint, they would still be around today....sadly no...from Austin, and there are a handful left out of hundreds. Anyway, to hear that Minor threat were not racist, thrills me and because when I was younger, I was too drug addled and brain soaked in alcohol, to even think that was a possibility. all these years later it occurred to me that might be the case, and my heart hoped they weren't racist. So happy to hear Ian declare his thoughts so many years later. This is honestly one of my all time favorite bands. Really love this band...always will.

Minor threat just copied chaos UK? ???????

Until the philosophy which hold one race Superior and another inferior Is finally And permanently Discredited And abandoned Everywhere is war Me say war - Bob

So what if theyre racist what do you care Racism is cool

Blacks act like shyyyyyyy blame it on others and expect the world to wipe their azzzz

Poor Ian rest. In. Peace

Not racist by any means STOP SHITTING ON PEOPLE FOR THERE RACE!

Being a trump supporter today is more punk then all these yuppie hipster d bags at punk shows 😂

grow some hair.

Those fascists always want to use some artists songs for their messages, campaigns rally etc whilst putting their own ideology onto the actual real meaning of a song that is very much opposed to their views. This has happened many times. The fact that Ian even had to explain this shows you how so many people are just ignorant af😅

Does he understand the word "minority" now ?

Let's be real, he clearly wasn't a "minority"...

"NAzi punk" is an American only term, let's be honest....

But they show a video of a different song than the one he talks about.

Racist no, heightist, yes.

Sounds better live..thats when u know the sht is REAL!

They fucking stomped right into "white" punk territory and owned it.

Now the white race is being demographically replaced and you all think nazism is the problem

Gods!

I feel bad each time I hear this quote: "nationalist nazi guy in Poland" from Ian, but the sad truth is that we have them more and more each year. Pity..

wasn't too hard to predict that even back then

Let me get this straight. You're jumping around in Doc Martin's screaming your head off, Guilty of Being White. With a shaved head mind you, and you're somehow surprised your mistaken for a neo Nazi? I mean I know he's not but still either he's completely oblivious or completely idiotic

honestly, he should've known.. but i'm guessing he was young & naive when he wrote it, and hadn't experienced people mistaking his lyrics yet.. or just hadn't experienced many white nationalists and human stupidity. people will twist anything to suit themselves and their hatred

Ian MacCaye loves everyone. He even loves puppies. But who doesn't love puppies?

In this western world we have at the moment where all the fragile victim-youth are protected from micro-agressions by safespaces etc they are really missing out on what makes been young fun. Namely, acting like the people in this vid.

1:18 "How could I know...?" That's why we call it a learning experience. As pure as his intentions were, he could have known that it could be co-opted by white supremacists. It's not like forbidden knowledge, it's just something that needs to be learned through life experience. It's okay that he didn't know, he's not a bad person for not having known. But I hope he learned how an anti-anti-white song can be construed to attack minorities. He may have been a minority in his school and he may have had something valuable to say about that. But when he blasts it out to the world, it's going to be interpreted in different ways. In most contexts, white people are not the minority, especially when we talk about wealth and power. Of course it's going to appeal to white people who want to act like they're the real victims of "reverse racism" or "neoracism" or whatever BS term that right-wingers are using to justify their bigotry. Oh, and I hope he also learned about the power dynamics that play into racism. It's not just about the color of a person's skin. It's about how a group of people fit into society at large. Blacks were a majority in Ian's school but they were overall still an oppressed minority in America and the world. That fact can't be glossed over if you want to have a serious discussion about racism.

1stworldconflictz

Does Ian still believe that whites can be victims of racism, or has Ian gone full woke?

It’s his worst song and I hope he realizes now that it is not an anti racist song

Nenhum artista passou um dia na prisão. Vocês não têm direito à opinião pública de nada

Classe média. Você não tem direito como o resto a dizer "cometa crimes " Você nunca foi pobre

The true hardcore concert!

Fascists (Loool 🙄😏😝)

He can say whatever he wants in retrospect to cover his ass, but everyone can see what he meant