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CMV: Eminem is not brave or heroic for going against Donald Trump

This is something me and a few friends have been discussing lately. I don't understand why people think Eminem is some "hero" when he rapped against Trump the other month. It is literally what everybody and their mother has been doing for the last two years(minus the whole rapping thing). 

Just because he has fame, it doesn't make things different. Most "famous" people in the spotlight talk against Trump constantly. Those who support him are for the most part quiet, and when they speak out they get attacked for it. If anything, you're brave to speak FOR Donald Trump. When I think brave, doing what society and doing what "the norm" is, doesn't come to mind.
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To understand why Eminem's forceful and complete rejection of Trump and his supporters is such a big deal, you have to look at Eminem's origin and the people that he has tried to represent.

Eminem comes from Detroit, Michigan. Furthermore, he comes from a poor, run-down part of Detroit; the remnants of a collapsed auto manufacturing industry. Why is this important? Well the same story has played out all over the American Midwest, leaving hundreds of similar communities, unable to make an economic recovery and trapped in poverty. It's in this setting that Eminem got his start, and you see the effects of this on his music. The anger against the systematic oppression he feels, his reliance on narcotics as a source of entertainment and happiness in his life, the subsequent difficulties of sobriety, all tied in with the difficulty of raising children in extreme poverty. For many people that feel abandoned by a new America, Eminem's music is talking about **them**, and that fact is represented in his fanbase.

Furthermore, a topic that comes up often in his music is race, and not in an "oppression of African-Americans" sense. He had to struggle against the stereotype that many people in the rap community held against him because of his race, and that shows through in his music. When his fanbase is listening to that and interpreting it with their lives and experience, its not a big jump to go from there to white pride and feelings of race based nationalism. In a lot of ways, Eminem represents many of the same aspects as a typical Trump supporter, and is one of the few mainstream artists to have those characteristics. When he came out as unequivocally against Trump and all of the ideals he represents, he was one of the few celebrities to do so that has a major segment of their fanbase that supports Trump. For America as a whole, attacking Trump may certainly be the norm, but that's certainly not the case for many of Eminem's supporters.