• Soup@lemmy.world
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    I was a lot younger when I first heard it. I did think it was a little weird but not enough for that young Canadian white boy to really have too much of an opinion. The only “plainly laid out” reference to “Southern Man” is a single line referring to this “Neil” I also didn’t really know anything about at the time.

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      Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her

      Well, I heard old Neil put her down

      Well, I hope Neil Young will remember

      A Southern man don’t need him around, anyhow

      I get that you were a kid when you first heard it, but it’s absolutely all laid out in plain English. They even referenced the song itself.

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        Bro I was a kid and didn’t know what “Southern Man” even was, either, and the concept of a person from the south isn’t exactly unique to the song by that name.

        Christ, you’re an asshole.

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          I’m not criticizing you for misunderstanding it as a kid. You’re not a kid anymore. You just said, as an adult, that the only reference was a single line with the word Neil in it. That’s wrong. If you can’t handle being corrected when you say something wrong maybe the internet isn’t for you.

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            Oh I’m so sorry, it was four lines back to back and three of them were just saying his name. Will you ever forgive me? Please, your admiration is all that I crave!

            I know that you’ve never missed something small that you frankly weren’t paying much attention to in the first place. Teach me your ways, enlightened one.

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              Step 1 is to want to learn instead of getting defensive and acting like a douche when someone tells you something you didn’t know.

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                I already learned, I know what the song is about now and I not only knew it long time ago but I literally had already said that. You aren’t teaching anyone anything, you just tried to mock me for not knowing something.

                I hope you find, one day, something kinder to fill that gaping hole in your personality. This ain’t it.