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James Taylor at the DNC: "I Don't Get It - I'm an Old White Guy and I Love Barack Obama"

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))9/07/2012 5:42:13 am PDT

re: #18 goddamnedfrank

Nobody’s going with Wagner. Dude was an epic level anti-semite.

Germany goes to great lengths to avoid tossing the baby of his music out with the bathwater of his anti-Semitism. And since he was dead at least 50 years before the Nazis co-opted him, one cannot say definitively how he would have related to them…