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Juggalo family values: we could all learn a lot from insane clowns
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- Title
- Juggalo family values - Chicago Reader
- Authors
- Leor Galil
- Published
- Aug 10 2023
- Word count
- 5734 words
Interesting read.
Something that stands out is ICP has come out against racism and homophobia. They’ve been supportive of LGBTQ+ and apologized for homophobic slurs in earlier works. I always wondered where they fell on that spectrum.
They are also anti-confederate flag.
Carnival of Carnage released on October 18, 1992 has a song called "Your Rebel Flag"
It has the chorus:
Fuck your Rebel flag! (Fuck your Rebel flag)
Fuck your Rebel flag! (Fuck your Rebel flag)-(Fuck your Rebel Flag!)
Fuck the Rebel flag! (Fuck your Rebel flag)
Fuck a Rebel flag! (Fuck your Rebel flag)
Wow. What an article. I always felt safe and cared for at punk shows. I remember in one really rough mosh pit, when I got out someone just grabbed me and said "you can really hold you own!" When I fell down, someone picked me up. It's heart warming to see how this group has come together to bring such love to each other. Thanks for sharing!!
Yeah I feel that Juggalos/ICP, in general, have often been misunderstood. Both the artist and their fanbase has had some missteps in the past, and I once had a different view skewed by those things and by media trying to paint them in a poor light, but through multiple people talking about it whether it be a friend, a documentary, others' description of their experiences- I've grown to view them in a positive light these days.
Skewed by the media ? I have been listening to ICP since The Great Malenko, I'm not sure what image they try to put out but it has always been fuckin weird. What is juggalo ? He just don't care. He might try to put a weave in his nut hair.
I liked them cause I was 12 and the dick and fart jokes, coupled with the weird undead dark carnival shit, appealed to my loner adolescent brain. The moral crusader's shook their fists at them and tried to tie them to same society "destroying" panic as heavy metal which probably helped their appeal I'm my eyes.
Hrm, I was raised and stayed in conservative Christian circles for the first half of my life, so rather than regular "media" it was probably the moral crusaders you're talking about which was part of the "media" I was ingesting at that time in my life, whether that be visual, audio, articles, sermons, who knows- and that just kind of ingrained itself in my head as media, though I wouldn't be surprised if mainstream news organizations took efforts to make things like the Gathering of the Juggalos look bad or w/e too (if one of the fanbase committed crimes or did drugs or anything the media could use as a "gotcha" for alarmist BS)
Yeah, if you're an organization who's whole vibe is pitting "good" against "evil" ICP is gonna give you everything you want. Dark magic, songs about dead bodies, heck even swearing!
It's the the perfect spooky story to scare your flock into obedience.
this post was all i needed to stop coming to this website