Oh, IDK, I knew he was that when he called for five innocent (and at the time not yet even convicted) Black men to be lynched in a full page ad, but I guess I am just built differently.
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![During this period, jazz began to get a reputation as being immoral, and many members of the older generations saw it as threatening the old cultural values and promoting the new decadent values of the Roaring Twenties. Professor Henry van Dyke of Princeton University wrote: "[I]t is not music at all. It's merely an irritation of the nerves of hearing, a sensual teasing of the strings of physical passion."[91] The media also spoke ill of it. The New York Times in the 1920s intimated that jazz was responsible for the decline of Western civilization and of the quality of Italian tenors, a poor trade balance with Hungary, a classical musician's fatal heart attack, and frightening bears in Siberia.[92]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h4mejvoh6ckjuebkdkllbqil/bafkreiby47jnqcy6h3eatbbeqqjzchnjtsw3zvezcel7ylugyo6cheyk3u)
