Post by Logan on Jul 3, 2016 7:58:23 GMT -6
Interview with The Liberal Redneck: Comedian Trae Crowder Gets Serious
A friend showed me a viral YouTube video of a young, nice-looking redneck male going off on other rednecks for freaking out about the “trans in bathrooms” issue. I was confused at first because this man—Trae Crowder—was obviously very knowledgeable, but what he was saying seemed diametrically opposed to the way he said it. How could that voice be coming from such an intelligent man?
If you haven’t heard of Trae Crowder, you should do yourself a favor and go online to search “trae crowder youtube,” then watch any number of videos (averaging maybe two minutes each). The aforementioned “transgender bathrooms” video is priceless: “Child molesters are not gonna prey on a kid in broad daylight, in public—especially not with their mouth-breathing troglodyte daddy 12 feet outside the door just dyin’ to punch something different. It don’t make no sense.” There are two reasons you may not have found that very humorous: one, it makes sense, so it’s just real, not necessarily funny; and two, you’re reading it, not hearing it. This ally to the LGBT community has succeeded in creating a character who says the opposite of what you would expect a redneck to spout.
I spoke on the phone with Trae Crowder, the real person behind the Liberal Redneck, about growing up poor, a gay uncle, and changing attitudes in Southern cities. It was not what I was expecting to hear.
Blase DiStefano: I Googled the definition of “redneck” and what I got was “A working-class white person, especially a politically reactionary one from a rural area.” So that sorta sounds like you, except the “politically reactionary” part. Although I guess you’re the extreme opposite of what that implies.
Trae Crowder: Typically, it’s in the exact opposite direction. Basically, that’s it in a nutshell.
Read more: www.outsmartmagazine.com/2016/07/the-liberal-redneck-comedian-trae-crowder-gets-serious/
A friend showed me a viral YouTube video of a young, nice-looking redneck male going off on other rednecks for freaking out about the “trans in bathrooms” issue. I was confused at first because this man—Trae Crowder—was obviously very knowledgeable, but what he was saying seemed diametrically opposed to the way he said it. How could that voice be coming from such an intelligent man?
If you haven’t heard of Trae Crowder, you should do yourself a favor and go online to search “trae crowder youtube,” then watch any number of videos (averaging maybe two minutes each). The aforementioned “transgender bathrooms” video is priceless: “Child molesters are not gonna prey on a kid in broad daylight, in public—especially not with their mouth-breathing troglodyte daddy 12 feet outside the door just dyin’ to punch something different. It don’t make no sense.” There are two reasons you may not have found that very humorous: one, it makes sense, so it’s just real, not necessarily funny; and two, you’re reading it, not hearing it. This ally to the LGBT community has succeeded in creating a character who says the opposite of what you would expect a redneck to spout.
I spoke on the phone with Trae Crowder, the real person behind the Liberal Redneck, about growing up poor, a gay uncle, and changing attitudes in Southern cities. It was not what I was expecting to hear.
Blase DiStefano: I Googled the definition of “redneck” and what I got was “A working-class white person, especially a politically reactionary one from a rural area.” So that sorta sounds like you, except the “politically reactionary” part. Although I guess you’re the extreme opposite of what that implies.
Trae Crowder: Typically, it’s in the exact opposite direction. Basically, that’s it in a nutshell.
Read more: www.outsmartmagazine.com/2016/07/the-liberal-redneck-comedian-trae-crowder-gets-serious/