Making Up Ghosts That Don’t Exist: Billy Corgan Compares Social Justice Warriors to KKK, Maoist Cult

With some of the recent instances of ultra–political correctness across the country, it’s understandable that some people are getting tired of what they see as the country becoming a PC minefield. Billy Corgan, however, took this frustration to another level yesterday by going off on “social justice warriors” and comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan.

The former Smashing Pumpkins frontman spoke with conspiracy-theorist Alex Jones about the subject, and the two of them bemoaned how the “hashtag generation” is deliberately attempting to sabotage free speech. As the discussion progressed, Corgan stated that such people were “Maoists” who’ve been sucked into a “cult” of whiny intolerance for differences of opinion.

“There’s two schools of thought: One is they’re gone. They’re Maoists. They have the Little Red Book in their hand,” Corgan said. “You’re not gonna get them back…The only thing that’s going to adjust their ideological fixation is reality.”

Jones and Corgan continued to rail against social justice warriors by saying they weren’t “real liberals,” but people just looking for more people to indoctrinate with outrage culture. “They just wanna hate somebody and they are literally like a dumb Klan guy that just pulls over on some black guy walking home from work and kills him ’cause they’re black,” Jones said. “They want to just project something onto you.”

Corgan picked up the “literal” metaphor, saying that such people were “making up stories about ghosts that don’t exist” as he brought up the Civil Rights march in Selma.

“If you could go back to Selma 1932 and the Klan member spitting in some person of color’s face, don’t you think that guy thought he was right, too? … How is this any different?”

You can watch a clip of their conversation in the video above, via The Alex Jones Channel. Their full talk is available on the Info Wars website.

[h/t Billboard]
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