Liberal wailing over Jason Aldean is about riot apologia, not ‘lynching’
Zachary Faria
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The liberal outcry over Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In A Small Town” is unhinged, but it shows that rabid defense of rioters will be brought out by liberal legacy media outlets and activists the next time riots start up again.
The song was released in May to little backlash, but the release of the music video on Friday sparked liberal outage across the media. That resulted in CMT, which airs country music videos, pulling the video of the song as Aldean was accused of being “pro-lynching.”
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The video itself features Aldean singing over video of the riots he is describing, including rioters throwing Molotov cocktails, assaulting police officers, and looting businesses, as well as videos of criminals committing carjackings and robberies. The end of the song then features several patriotic images and videos of people in small-town communities playing sports.
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The song has two messages, the first of which urges rioters to “try that in a small town” because “around here, we take care of our own.” This is in contrast to Democratic-run cities that allowed rioters to brutally assault people and destroy businesses in the communities that police are supposed to protect. In a “small town,” people are willing and able to defend themselves from violent rioters, and police are allowed to deal with rioters as opposed to big city police officers who are told to stand down and let buildings be torched in cities such as Minneapolis. The video shows both a man defending himself from a robber and several shots of police officers.
The second more uplifting message is, as Aldean said in defending the song, “Try That In A Small Town, for me, refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief. Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences.” At the end of the music video, the song cuts out and is replaced by the audio of a news clip about farmers “dropping their own crops for the day” because a “friend is in need.”
So why is this song supposedly “pro-lynching”? Because liberals are obsessively defensive of Black Lives Matter rioters. Any suggestion that those rioters, many of whom were violent criminals with no regard for human life or safety, should or could have been met with violence was deemed racist. That included when Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called for the military to stop riots in Washington, D.C., and that included when Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people at a riot in self-defense, even though all three rioters were white.
The song is not “pro-lynching” any more than your average rap song is pro-murder, but it is anti-rioter and a reminder that Democratic city leaders and their legacy media allies tolerated and excused violent rioters in the summer of 2020 and continue to go soft on violent criminals now. The liberals upset about this song are only upset because it reminds everyone just how absurd their pro-riot and pro-criminal stances are and how most people simply would not tolerate violent riots.