He’s not gonna take it, no, he’s not gonna take it.
Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider has had it with people “folding” to cancel culture — weeks after he drew the ire of trans activists for agreeing with one other iconic rocker’s criticism about pushing gender ideology on kids.
“You don’t must cave, you don’t must apologize in case you did nothing incorrect,” the 68-year-old Long Island native told Fox News Digital Saturday. “If you happen to did something incorrect, you already know? If you happen to did something incorrect, you raped a lady, yeah, you gotta do greater than apologize, but at the identical time, that’s not something you stand strong about.
“But when you have got a position and a belief and other people come at you for it, everybody is folding!”
Last month, Snider agreed with Kiss’ Paul Stanley’s stance on youths undergoing sex reassignment surgery.
“There’s a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a life-style that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as if some kind of game after which parents in some cases allow it,” Stanley tweeted.
“There ARE individuals who as adults may resolve reassignment is their needed selection but turning this right into a game or parents normalizing it as some kind of natural alternative or believing that because a little bit boy likes to play dress up in his sister’s clothes or a lady in her brother’s, we should always lead them steps further down a path that’s removed from the innocence of what they’re doing,” Stanley added.
Snider, ordinarily a staunch supporter of left-wing politics, commented, “well said.” Like Stanley and Kiss, he and Twisted Sister were almost as well-known for his or her makeup, hair and outlandish costumes as for his or her music back of their prime.
“You recognize what? There was a time where I ‘felt pretty’ too. Glad my parents didn’t jump to any rash conclusions! Well said, @PaulStanleyLive,” Snider tweeted.
The backlash was swift and led to the San Francisco Pride festival nixing Twisted Sister’s defiant smash hit, “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” as its official anthem and Snider’s scheduled performance.
“Ultimately SF Pride and Dee have mutually agreed to part ways,” the “heartbroken and indignant” festival said in a press release, which also described Stanley’s remarks as “transphobic.”
Stanley later apologized after his own brush with outrage. “While my thoughts were clear, my words were clearly not,” he tweeted.
“Most significantly and above all else, I support those fighting their sexual identity while enduring constant hostility and people whose path leads them to reassignment surgery. It’s hard to fathom the form of conviction that one must feel to take those steps.”
Snider took issue along with his fellow rock star’s apology, saying, “he didn’t say anything incorrect. You recognize, and he took back his words, and I won’t do it.
“I wasn’t kidding once I wrote, ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’ I wasn’t kidding. I’m that guy and I’ll at all times be that guy.”
