Not at all. And you can rest assured that all patients regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation were treated equally and professionally. If we're slinging mud, did you treat your conservative or religious patients with the same respect?

The only topic that comes close to me "spouting hate" relates to the events of 9/11/01, and I have extremely good reasons for feeling the way I do. No amount of ecumenical kumbaya will ever change that.

Aside from that, I'm willing to bet we have tons more in common than these petty differences. So truce??????

You're wrong. I'm 57 and I grew up around rap music. It's not my style but it's been here since the 80s. It's not new it's been a recognized Grammy category for nearly 30 years. Kid n Play, Run DMC, NWA, Ice T, Eminem, JayZ, Public Enemy, etc have been around forever.

Rap, like it's Rock predecessor, is going nowhere.

“Oldies” type stations do have to progress. There aren’t many people born in the 20’s that are alive today to justify playing music from that era only.

As an example, let’s say you started coming to TV 20 years ago at 55. WVLG played music mostly from the 40’s/50’s/60’s to appease the majority of listeners.

And then, 10 years ago more 55+ people had moved here. WLVG played music mostly from the 50’s/60’s/70’s to appease the majority of listeners.

Then currently more 55+ people are moving here. WVLG is playing music mostly from the 60’s/70’s/80’s to appease the majority of listeners.

The average population age here is constantly changing and WLVG does a fantastic job. They can’t please all their listeners all the time, but they can please all of their listeners some of the time.

Have you tried Sirius radio? They have music stations dedicated to each decade entirely, from the 20’s to current.

You must know much about music. Michael Jackson was one of the most talented performers of his era. I agree on the Rap thing. Not really music.

Another beat down
 

Your an angry person inside….get help

WVLG is a marketing tool. It plays what those in charge believe will appeal to the demographic considering purchasing new homes in The Villages. It likely needs to accommodate various government regulations and policies but I am clueless about that.

Have had satellite radio for 10+ years. For us best thing since sliced bread.

Well, I retired 3 years ago at age 50, and many many more are retiring at younger ages. The current generation prefers life experiences to finding fulfillment through work. They will also opt to retire younger. Since I am seeing more and more my age retiring, its safe to assume we came of age in the 1980's. '80's music had some rap (Beastie Boys, Blondie, SugarHill Gang, and even into our 30's we were listening to Snoop and Dre.

I'm not a big rap fan, but I do like the "nostalgic" ones as mentioned above.

You are absolutely right, the Villages radio station is making adjustments based on the newly retiring demographic. You will hear less and less classic '60's rock, even though I love that very much. In another decade, expect to start hearing N'Sync and Brittney also.

It is what it is. The world, and time, march on.

i like the Dead Zone & The Boneyard stations

Give them an inch ad they take a mile.

Great post! You must be angry and need help, like I was told I was on this thread, for reminding everyone that the music we now consider mainstream was once considered not only not musical, but dangerous to society.

When you have no argument against facts and logic, attack the person's character.
Well played, sir.

1980, Rapture by Blondie
 

Rapture 1980, The first Rap song to hit number 1 on the pop charts in America. That was 42 yrs ago.

Of course I am happy to have a truce. I will agree with you that Covid was real, that 9-11 was not a CIA or Israeli plot and was an attack on our country. I will have a truce with you about lots of things we agree about. What I will not wave a white flag for is ignoring bigotry.

So as long as you are careful in what you write, think about it before you hit the submit reply button, I will not call out what I see. I have never attacked you in this forum except in response to what you have written. I did send you one PM about one of your posts where I thought a private conversation explaining something would be met with a positive response. It was not, you've doubled down on the behavior and attempted to mock me for being sensitive about the topic.

And to answer your question.. I never was aware of the politics of my patients. Children generally don't have political opinions. I know I was sympathetic and supportive of my gay patients, and my transgender patient. I had patients/parents from every major religious group including atheism and pastafarianism. I had partners who were Jewish, Hindu, and both mainstream and Evangelical Christian. I had a partner who showed me a photograph she said was taken at an appearance of Mary which she said showed the bars of the Pearly Gates. I was an attending at a Children's hospital with doctors from all over the world who were my peers and my superiors.

But I will admit that I did not treat all my patients the same. I had a few families discharged from the practice over the years for comments they made about not wanting to see a doctor from India, or refusing to allow a Black MA to assist in their child's visit, because of the race of the MA. Out you go.

I like to think I have an open mind and heart. I am sure that there are closed doors in my subconscious which I hope I keep locked tightly. I married a Republican.

And I don't care for rap music. It does not speak to me any more than country or gospel or opera or madrigals. But here on this forum we have people, seemingly without irony or self awareness attacking rap music for containing foul language, and how do they describe rap, as being crap, a word that certainly in their formative years was not acceptable. See, ok for old white people to fly their Eff the Potus flags, and to use language I don't think they learned in church and in the next breath attack rap for foul language. Such an inconsistency is worth pointing out even if it only makes one person think for one second about why it is ok for our Villages' culture to encourage Eff the President flags and then cry purity police about musicians using the same kinds of non-church language.

So TL: DR. Yes to a truce, no to my ignoring what I might see as racism, bigotry, sexism, and hate speech. You avoid making posts that seem to contain those topics and I will stay very quiet in my corner. See it as a sign, if you like, for my respect for a physician that I consciously expect more tolerance and more evidence of open-heartedness from a member of that profession than from the usual anonymous person on TOTV.

Seems reasonable to me. Nicely said.