For decades, the left defined itself by its opposition to authority, gleefully fighting the old conservative fuddy-duddys in power. But as a slew of formerly rebellious rockstars have learned, the left has since become the very thing it used to fight.
Alice Cooper, a famously painted-up rock icon since the ’70s, came under fire for a series of benign comments regarding the current transgender pandamonium.
“I’m understanding that there are cases of transgenderism, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad, and I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that,” Cooper said. “I find it wrong when you’ve got a six-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.’”
For this perfectly innocuous statement, Cooper lost a brand deal with Vampyre Cosmetics, who accused the musician of transphobia.
Clearly, the LGBT community is so oppressed and powerless that banal criticism of them results in losing work. Cooper didn’t express anything hateful, he simply cautioned of too many people hopping aboard the current cultural bandwagon and that these procedures have permanent consequences.
For that, Cooper was accused of “spewing debunked bathroom predator myths” and “leaning on right-wing, anti-trans scare tactics” by Rolling Stone, an outlet that used to be about covering music but has since moved on to political hackery.
But Cooper isn’t the only rockstar to feel
