Queen Guitarist Brian May Slams Cancel Culture, Then Gets Cancelled

Gabriel Hays | November 29, 2021
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Another legendary British guitarist is slamming lefty culture. Now conservative Queen fans can rest easy knowing their favorite guitarist Brian May has a severe distaste for wokeness.

In a recent interview, the guitar hero of a seminal British rock band and accomplished astrophysicist railed against cancel culture, saying that it creates a “horrible atmosphere” in society.

Though to be fair, it shouldn’t necessarily take an astrophysicist to figure that out.

Anyways, The Post Millennial wrote about May, who was responding in part to the announcement that British award show, The Brits, had done away with the traditional gender awards categories.

Apparently, “non-binary” singer Sam Smith, who is a biological male, made a stink about not fitting into any of the male or female categories and thus they changed them. At this point, May – who has won four of his own “Brits” – felt the need to remark that “woke” culture has gone too far. 

“I feel very uncomfortable about some of the decisions that are being made, often out of fear," he stated, adding, “because people are so afraid of being called out. It is a horrible atmosphere.”

Hmm, perhaps Mr. May has seen too many of his friends kicked off of Twitter or fired from gigs for things they’ve posted. 

“I get so sick of people trying to change things without thinking of the long-term consequences. Some of these things are improvements and some are not. Some of them are depriving people."

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UK paper The Mirror caught some of May’s comments that included a bit about his former band not being able to make it in the current woke climate. He pondered whether Queen’s brilliant frontman Freddie Mercury would have even played in the band. 

“For instance, Freddie came from Zanzibar, he wasn’t British, he wasn’t white as such - nobody cares, nobody ever, ever discussed it,” May claimed. May surmised that today, he and his bandmates might have asked, “‘Is [Freddie] the right colour? Is he the right sexual proclivity?’”

Yeah, really, perhaps today Freddie would have been deemed too white-passing to sell in today’s industry. 

Thankfully those questions never went into the equation when Queen hired Mercury. “None of that happened, and now I find it frightening that you have to be so calculating about everything,” May claimed.  

May went even so far as to quip, “We would be forced to have people of different colours and different sexes and we would have to have a trans [person].” Well, ain’t that the truth. 

Though that last statement did not sit well with the internet mob, who hounded May for what they perceived as anti-trans hate. The mob hounded him so much over the statement that he made an Instagram post on November 28 in which he apologized and clarified his comments.

 

May claimed, “I was ambushed and completely stitched up by a journalist at the recent ITV event,” who he claimed made it out to look like he was “unfriendly to trans people.” The guitarist stated, “nothing could be further from the truth. My words were subtly twisted. I should have known better than to talk to those predatory Press hacks.”

It seems like the fallout from May’s original point really solidified that point.

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