![]() Leave it to Bieber to, however unintentionally, hold up a mirror to a culture that doesn’t want to see itself. On Instagram, I see this style of cognitive dissonance, or willful cynicism, deployed almost daily by media companies, influencers and celebrities, people I knew in college, even an Etsy plant store. ![]() And if Bieber is anything, he is a corporation perhaps that is why I don’t find it especially jarring to hear King’s exhortation for radical sacrifice juxtaposed with a song about being horny enough to walk through fire. King’s assassination, liberalism has turned him, a revolutionary figure once hated by the majority of white Americans for his commitment to racial, religious, and economic justice, into a convenient accessory through which to signal a vague, corporation-safe message in support of Black people. speech-and to plop in another one halfway through-is revealing, but perhaps not for the reasons he intended. Justin Bieber’s decision to open his sixth album, Justice, with a sample of a Martin Luther King Jr. ![]()
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