The song has all the elements of right-wing lunacy: Conservative Christian privilege ("don't try to tell my children when and where to pray"), Islamophobia ("If you wanna serve in a Muslim church, go and take your ass back home"), anti-immigrant xenophobia ("Hell No, I won't push one for English", "We need to lock down all the borders"), attacks on Obamacare ("This damn Obamacare is a joke"), imaginary gun confiscation rhetoric ("If you want to come and try to take my gun, well you better be bulletproof"), and shaming welfare/food stamp recipients ("Take yourself to work if you're able, instead of living off our dime. This 'give me a hand out' generation is gonna bleed this country dry").
Amanda Marcotte at The Raw Story:
Yep, no one is trying to take his gun away and they certainly aren’t banning his children from praying. Indeed, from what we can tell from the demographic information, the likelier story is his kids aren’t praying because they see through Dad’s pious bullshit. There’s a lot of other mythical oppressions he lays out, including the myth that Obamacare is stealing medication from old people (read: taking medical care from older, white people and giving it to younger people of color, which is not happening—there’s enough to go around), the false claim that people are on welfare and refusing to work (in fact, most people on assistance work but just don’t make enough to make ends meet), that sort of thing. But most of the time on places like Fox News and whatnot, they are careful to avoid being overtly racist, knowing that audiences will fill in the blanks for them. That allows the myth that racism is dead to persist, because it’s conveyed in most spaces through raised eyebrows and implication.Youtube link to Jones's racist Islamophobic right-wing garbage "song":youtube.comBut not with this dicknozzle! No, he goes there:
No, I won’t push one for EnglishAll three of these statements are pure, unvarnished racism. The excuse for complaining about “press 1 for English” is that immigrants “should” learn English. But that argument assumes that learning a language is easy and takes no more than a couple of weeks, when in reality, it’s a long process, especially for adults, to become conversant enough in a language to conduct personal business in it. Of course, the vast majority of people making this argument cannot speak a second language themselves, because they know full well it’s fucking hard, showing that this argument is disingenuous and simply a cover for the belief that this country should be reserved for Anglos and should be formally racist against Latinos. Jones doesn’t even hide this, singing, “They need to lock down on the borders.” Don’t think he’s talking about Canada there.
I just as soon hang up the phone
If you wanna serve in a Muslim church
Go and take your ass back home
Also, the chorus is, “This is coming from real America, son/And pissed off rednecks like me”.
Mr. stick-head politician
I got some news for you
If you want to come and
Try to take my gun
Well you better be bulletproof
And don't try to tell my children
When and where to pray[...]
Hell No, I won't push one for English
I just as soon hang up the phone
If you wanna serve in a Muslim church
Go and take your ass back home
Take yourself to work if you're able
Instead of living off our dime
This 'give me a hand out' generation
Is gonna bleed this country dry
Yeah, I think it's time that we change your policy
This is coming from real America, son
And pissed off rednecks like me[...]
Old folks say can't afford medication
This damn Obamacare is a joke
If it will help you with your sickness
I say fire it up and take a toke
We need to lock down all the borders
Throw away the keys and
Let's help our own right here at home
And stop sending it overseas
But right now raise your glasses
If you agree, Yeah
This is coming from real America, son
And pissed off rednecks like me
This is coming from real America, son
And pissed off rednecks like me