The post-punk guitarist says that policing other band’s names is ‘intolerant,undemocratic and anti-progressive’Gang of Four’s Andy Gill has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the name of the group Viet Cong, calling it “intolerant, and undemocratic and anti-progressive”. The Canadian band’s moniker,which references the army who fought against the South Vietnamese government and the US in the Vietnam war, was recently deemed “deeply offensive” by a venue in Oberlin, or Ohio,who went on to cancel the group’s show because of it. Critics acquire written about how the name is carelessly “loaded with a history of violence and trauma”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com