Are you kidding me? This is what people hate about "liberal"/"Left-wing" logic. If you don't like the liberal view, you are "racist", a "nazi" or "kkk". (On a side note, that kind of thought police is not truly liberal in any way). You have no logic to back up your claim, so you resort to ad hominem attacks (almost ironic, isn't it?).
There were many unpleasant things about Woody Guthrie. The man loved Stalin, even after it was apparent that Stalin was leading a mass genocide of his own people. Guthrie was a socialist/communist and that goes against what America is about just as much as facism does. Sure, you're free to have your own dumb views, but when they're as harmful and fringe as Guthrie's, they should not be glorified. Additionally, Guthrie said many racist things throughout his life. He was no saint.
I wasn't "glorifying" Guthrie. What I have tried to do several times is point out the irony of how many people 'sing his praises' - so many of them not left wingers at all - without knowing what he really was all about.
And if you read my comment, in reply to TulsaBeMore's comment, "I've heard some people upset about Woody Guthrie - socialist, etc.",
it very clearly says, "That would be the deplorable Nazi and KKK parties."
Meaning, of course that the people most likely to be upset would be those two groups. Slow down and read carefully. You appear to be "listening" (reading) just to reply, rather than listening (reading) to hear.
Woody was no saint - never said he was. He also pretty much left his kids while he was going off around the country on his mission. One can speculate about whether he should have even been a father since he wasn't really great at it, but then we would not have Arlo - a very talented person. And I bet Arlo and siblings would have some strong opinions on whether Woody should have had kids.
Woody was raised in one kind of household with a certain environment - obviously bigoted and racist. But then he outgrew his upbringing and changed into something very different.
I like his music and the principles espoused by much of his work - but not all. I suspect I would not get along well with him on a personal basis...he was way wrong about too much stuff.
Interesting insights into Woody;
https://jagadees.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/woody-guthrie-the-musician/From the article, an audience member wrote to him about a performance and the ensuing apparent epiphany, at about 25 years old;
And he gets a letter from a member of his listening audience the next day. And I know that letter by heart. I’ve seen it. He says, “You were getting along pretty well on your program tonight, until you announced your n***** blues. I’m a Negro, a young Negro in college. And I certainly resented your remark. No person or person of any intelligence uses that word over the radio today.” And that letter really hit Woody like a slap in the face. He was mortified. He apologized profusely on the air the next day. He made a big point of dramatically tearing out the song sheet from his notebook and tearing it to shreds and promising he would never use that word again. And as he later said, “I apologize to the Negro people for the frothings that I let slip out of the corners of my mouth.” So this is the beginning of his conversion, I suppose, to eventually becoming one of the most ardent champions and activists for racial equality.
