Though I’ve never cared much for him and his music, partially for his past offensiveness, when I saw this shirt, my reaction was instant: I wanted it. It’s a juvenile spin, the type he usually makes brattily, but it’s genuine in a way he’s not been before. That’s the sole privilege of gay men and women who have had to endure its unruly wrath for far too long.īut then here he is today, posting a photo on Tumblr of him holding hands with another man, looking like a goon, wearing a twisted new piece of Odd Future merchandise that reimagines a white supremacist insignia emblazoned with the rainbow colors of a pride flag. Tyler does not get to decide where, when, and how that term gets used. He’s always passionately claimed he doesn’t dislike gay people, arguing instead that that term is 'just a word,' and that his overuse dilutes its hateful power. You have to work hard to use a word so much. With 15 tracks, that’s an average of 14.2 times per song.
In 2011, the LA rapper and Odd Future figurehead used the word 'faggot' a total of 213 times on his debut album Goblin. Tyler, The Creator has long had to defend himself against charges of homophobia.
