Former lead singer Billy Corgan of the 90s grunge band Smashing Pumpkins ripped into the Social Justice Warrior movement in a recent interview.

The singer explained,

"When I watch some of the clips … of some of these protests, I have no respect for what these people are doing,...They're shutting down free speech. … I just don't get it. To me it's antithetical to the society that I believe in. But I try to listen to their argument… The tactics in the social-justice warrior movement are to stifle and shut down free speech," he said. "And I would argue in the world that I live in, which is the bareknuckle world, they're leveraging their position because they don't have power."

Corgan astutely observed how the simple "wrong" use of a word, could ruin his career:

"It's pretty remarkable that I could say one word right now that would destroy my career," he said, as the screen displayed images of Michael Richards and Paula Deen, both of whom faced derision after using the N-word. "I could use the wrong racial epithet or say the wrong thing to you or look down at the wrong part of your body and be castigated and it's a meme and I'm a horrible person. Every day through the media, through advertising, we see people being degraded, we see people doing all sorts of things that we should be horrified at as a culture. So we've normalized all sorts of things, but we live in a world where one word could destroy your life but it's OK to, if you're a social-justice warrior, spit in somebody's face."

He also pointed out the hypocrisy of America-hating leftists:

"You try to tell someone here who you might argue is taking advantage of our social welfare system or is gaming the system somehow and say, 'Look, you're telling me America sucks and you're spitting on the flag, try living in one of these third world countries and see how far that gets you…”