Craig and Charlie Reid, who make up the beloved Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers, best known for their 1988 hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” denounced trans rights while promoting their new album, claiming the movement for equality is merely “the Left losing their collective mind.”

The 64-year-old twin brothers discussed their new and staunchly political album, You May Offend, with The Telegraph earlier this month. While the songs express several views that veer left, they made clear in their interview that they do not support trans rights.

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[–] 43 points 6 days ago (3 children)

They can fuck 500 miles right off this planet.

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  • [–] 45 points 6 days ago

    Fu fu fu fu, fu fu fu fu, fufufufufufufufuffu fuck the proclaimers

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  • [–] 35 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    Man people get so up in arms about this shit. I literally could not give a fuck what trans people are doing, they are not affecting anyone, live your life. You know what would actually be a brave stance ? Speaking out against billionaire pedophiles. Sorry thats redundant.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    What causes famous people to do this? They could have simply sat back and collected royalties and not made waves. No one was asking these one hit wonders what their opinions on anything were. They just threw their careers and reputations away unprompted. Even ignoring how wrong they are, why would they think this is a good move?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Did you ever listen to Sunshine on Leith? My mother bought it back when it came out, and it was pretty clear to me from the start that they were reactionary nationalists. This doesn't surprise me at all.

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  • [–] 36 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    I pray they both live long enough to learn how misguided these views are.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    There is a special type of sadness that comes with your childhood cultural icons all turning out to be shit. I wish there was a word for that feeling.

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  • [–] 29 points 6 days ago

    Just make music, bitch.

    Actually, you're in your 60s and your one-hit-wonder was a long, long time ago. Just go do a jigsaw puzzle and shut the fuck up.

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  • I don’t understand why so many people give such a shit what someone else does with their own body. Less than 1% of the population is even trans. The majority of these people don’t even know a trans person. There are so many things happening in the world that actually affect your life directly to pay attention to that people ignore. There’s nothing about a trans person existing that affects the people around them other than their own discomfort at choices they don’t understand. It’s so petty and pointless to fight against - let people be who they want to be. No one is pressuring you to do the same or force that culture on you. Unlike religion or anti-trans crusaders.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    But trans humans and animals are biological reality, they occur naturally

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  • [–] 19 points 6 days ago

    Like we were all sitting around wondering what the Proclaimers would make of twentieth century modernity.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Welp, strike another song from my playlist.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    Beloved? I hate that fucking song and I hate them for writing it.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 days ago

    You know, when they were properly famous, people were saying this about gay people.

    Wonder what they thought of gays back then.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 days ago

    This one hurts a little more than usual, I wooed my love with that song. It's one of our songs.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 days ago

    Damn it. I sorta liked their one song.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago

    never trust somebody that goes out of their way to use incorrect units like miles.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago

    Guess some people have to go to extremes to stay relevant.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago

    Their problem with the left is the concept of equality?

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  • Then I hope they walk 500 miles on broken glass then walk 500 more.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    GET JA RULE ON THE PHONE

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    Poor David Tennant is really catching all the bad marks with this one.

    He and the Doctor Who crew for Series 3 did a whole cover of the whole song a while back.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    Idea: someone should be a weird al-type who only parodies shitty artists like this

    Cause I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to support transfolk

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  • [–] -4 points 6 days ago (2 children)