Clapton's thoughtcrime is a stance against forced Covid vaccinations, lockdowns, and mandates. Note he is not advocating "no Covid vaccines" it's just he wants to have a choice. Last year in the midst of lockdown fever in the UK he played on fellow Un-Woke Van Morrison's lockdown protest song "Stand And Deliver." As Breitbart News reports:

The song in question is “Stand And Deliver,” a joint release with fellow sceptic Van Morrison that saw Clapton sing: “Do you wanna be a free man / Or do you wanna be a slave? / Do you wanna wear these chains / Until you’re lying in the grave?”

Robert Cray, a well regarded blues guitarist, took offense to Morrison's usage of a slavery analogy. Cray, who is black or African-American (depending on how you prefer to categorize people by skin color), also took offense to Clapton's appearance in a portrait with Un-Woke Governor of Texas Greg Abbott.

“There’s this great photo [from 2013] at Madison Square Garden after the show, with B.B. King sitting in a chair, Jimmie Vaughan, myself and Eric sitting behind him,” Cray told the Post. “And I looked at that picture of Gov. Abbott, Jimmie Vaughan, and Eric Clapton in that similar pose, and I’m going, ‘What’s wrong with this picture? Why are you doing this?’” (Breitbart News)

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For the record, I am not criticizing Cray for taking offense to the lyric. Part of the great experiment of America is the freedom to discuss, to have discourse on matters of importance, like slavery. In the history of humanity there are fewer things more evil than slavery, a practice which predates modern history. But what I would like to know is if Robert Cray also takes similar umbrage to Joe Biden's rhetoric regarding black voters and slavery. As the once semi-gifted orator said in 2012 while still Obama's vice-president, "They gonna put ya'll back in chains" adopting a particularly cringe worthy vernacular.



Which brings me back to Clapton, he is Un-Woke, a pariah in the minds of Leftist Lockdown Fetishists. And why? Because he dares question Covid orthodoxy and takes part in a questionable song that mentions slavery. So what should we do? Should he be cancelled, memory-holed, made to scrounge for forgiveness before finally be disposed of completely like Winston Smith in 1984? And if he were cancelled, would those Woke amongst us be glad? Glad that the sitting President very likely is more racist than Eric Clapton, yet faces no scrutiny? And why spare Biden? Because he votes the correct way on abortion and union business? If we cancelled Clapton, and the associated slavery discussion, would it be better? Should we forget that slavery even existed?

Of course the answer is no. Eric Clapton, apart from being a living rock n' roll legend, is a free man who chooses to speak his mind. Be it on lockdowns, Covid vaccines, or even slavery. That is the world we live in. We, those of free mind and body, must not bend the knee to the Woke Mob. For to be Woke, in today's understanding of the word, is to celebrate conformity while pretending diversity, to exclude while claiming to be inclusive, and to be doctrinaire and totalitarian while pretending to be compassionate.