According to always reliable Blogtown regular Joneser, the internet (and especially the girly blogs) is abuzz regarding Justin Bieber’s quote in this month’s Rolling Stone interview. Here’s the preview that has everybody up in arms:

He isn’t sure what political party he’d support if he was old enough to vote. “I’m not sure about the parties,” Bieber says. “But whatever they have in Korea, that’s bad.” He does have a solid opinion on abortion. “I really don’t believe in abortion,” Bieber says. “It’s like killing a baby?” How about in cases of rape? “Um. Well, I think that’s really sad, but everything happens for a reason. I guess I haven’t been in that position, so I wouldn’t be able to judge that.”

Uggghhh… this is why I hate watching or reading interviews with people I like. “Familiarity breeding contempt” and all that. On the other hand, as an office-mate just said to me, “Really, who gives a shit about what a 16-year-old has to say about anything?” Likewise, why even ask a 16-year-old, especially someone as far away from the political spectrum as Justin Bieber, questions of this sort, unless it’s to showcase the general ignorance of 16-year-olds? (I’d rather not talk about the stupid things I believed when I was 16.) Let’s discuss these hot button topics, and while we’re at it, das Beebs “Johnny Rottenesque” cover photo in the comments, okay? LET’S LIGHT THIS CANDLE!

Anarchy in the C-A-N-A-D-A!

  • “Anarchy in the C-A-N-A-D-A!”

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

16 replies on “Bieber is Like, Against Abortion, or You Know, Like, I Don’t Know”

  3. Counterpoint: “I guess I haven’t been in that position, so I wouldn’t be able to judge that.”

    That statement makes him sound more thoughtful and fair-minded that pretty much every anti-choice politician in America.

  5. Shit. Fuck this little whelp. I was reading Hegel, Weber, Plato, and Marx when I was 16. If he’s an ignorant, immature little twerp who thinks that rape happens because “everything happens for a reason”, then he should be utterly ignored, or publicly shamed.

  7. I took his “it’s sad, it happens” as meaning that getting an abortion would be troubling, but acceptable in certain circumstances.

    Why do we ask so much of our pop stars? They’re not philosophers or critical thinkers, especially the 16-year old ones.

  11. OOH, I’M GLAD YOU ASKED! He was in public school, but is now tutored. And his mom is definitely Christian, which never helps matters. (Though maybe it will keep him from overdosing for another couple of years.)

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