Hmm. I think she makes some good points... just not the one she starts out to make. The initial comment she's responding to about a lack of equivalent songs is dead on in its point about swearing. Expressing anger is a perfectly legitimate point of a song, but that's not what a protest song's point is. A protest song's point is not "I am so angry about", it's "they/you should be so ashamed about..." The protest songs use shame, and that trick is a bubble that pops against the sharpy pointy edges of direct aggression. It's not that you can't have swearing in a protest song, but "Fuck tha police" is no "1, 2, 3, 4, what the hell are we fighting for?"
Protest songs operate by appealing to sympathy, and swearing, despite its other merits, generally does fuck-all for cultivating sympathy.
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Protest songs operate by appealing to sympathy, and swearing, despite its other merits, generally does fuck-all for cultivating sympathy.