{"id":82155,"date":"2022-09-29T21:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/conservatives-are-melting-down-because-lizzo-played-james-madisons-crystal-flute-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:59:56","slug":"conservatives-are-melting-down-because-lizzo-played-james-madisons-crystal-flute-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/conservatives-are-melting-down-because-lizzo-played-james-madisons-crystal-flute-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Are Melting Down Because Lizzo Played James Madison’s Crystal Flute \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tJames Madison defeated<\/span> DeWitt Clinton in 1812 to secure a second term in the White House. To commemorate his inauguration, a craftsman from Paris made him a crystal flute. The flute eventually made its way into the possession of the Library of Congress and sat unplayed until this week, when Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden invited<\/a> Lizzo, a classically trained flautist, to blow a few notes and even take the piece of history onstage during her concert in Washington, DC<\/p>\n

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\tConservatives are none too pleased!<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cSimply desecrating American history just for the sake of it,\u201d wrote right-wing pundit Matt Walsh, adding that letting Lizzo play the flute sends a \u201cmessage that our heritage and history are meaningless and that nothing we love or care about has any value \u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThis Lizzo-flute controversy is a perfect example of what I have termed Face Tattoo Phenomenon\u2122,\u201d tweeted<\/a> Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire, where Walsh hosts a podcast, \u201cthe phenomenon whereby someone does something deliberately controversial in an attempt to draw attention, and then acts offended when you notice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tThe conservative Columbia Bugle called it<\/a> a \u201chumiliation ritual.\u201d Right-wing commentator Greg Price wrote<\/a> that \u201cthey\u201d want to \u201cdegrade our history and then call you a racist if you actually value it.\u201d Trump appointee Darren Beattie described Lizzo<\/a> as the \u201cperfect representative of the American Globalist Empire.\u201d Trump superfan Nick Adams tweeted<\/a> that the \u201cBiden Administration is making a mockery of the country.\u201d Former GOP congressional candidate Andrew McCarthy said<\/a> everyone involved \u201cshould be deported.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tJenna Ellis, a former member of Trump’s crack team of election fraud lawyers, even felt compelled to address the issue on her online show. \u201cIt’s hideous,\u201d she said. \u201cLizzo is famous for being one of the most morbidly obese people in the world who claims that she’s oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThis is desecration, purposefully, of America’s history,\u201d Ellis added before bringing on right-wing commentator Ryan Fournier to talk about how \u201cdisgusting\u201d Lizzo looked.<\/p>\n

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\tIt shouldn’t come as a shock that the MAGA crowd is upset that a Black, body-positive pop star was given exclusive access to a piece of American history, and though the cruelty of their comments is yet another distressing sign of a right- wing that is increasingly animated by hatred, it’s also pretty damn hilarious that they’re writing about a novelty wind instrument like it’s the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

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\tThe tweets from triggered conservatives about Lizzo playing a 200-year-old flute they almost certainly weren’t even aware of before this week have indeed been entertaining, but the best comment about the incident came from Lizzo herself. \u201cI just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from the 1800s,\u201d she proclaimed on Tuesday. \u201cWe just made history tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n