Paz Lenchantin was apparently dismissed as the bassist of the band The Pixies after a decade, but someone in the comments section of an article in Stereogum back in March 2024 said not so fast, that she’s an anti-vaxxer who has regularly posted, then deleted, right-wing stuff in favour of dictators in South American countries, and support of a January 6th insurrectionist. The anonymous commenter alleges that the deleted social media posts were documented and that moderators on the r/thepixies subreddit removed most posts about Lenchantin’s political opinions. I did find a deleted and locked post on the Wayback Machine that describes Lenchantin defending Ariel Pink who admits being at the January 6th insurrection to “peacefully show support” and on a twitter post Jul 30, 2023 said “The Big Lie is not Trumps claims about 2020 election. the Big Lie is that a pandemic ever took place (in reality only a “plandemic” took place)”. A youtuber who covered this said that Black Francis had “been very vocal” about not liking MAGA and referenced that someone commented that “giving away pixie’s merch to support a January 6th insurrectionist probably didn’t help her position”. Paz Lenchantin was born in Argentina and brought to the U.S. by her parents at age 4 which would’ve been around 1977. That was the time of The Dirty War in Argentina, which started with a successful right-wing coup in 1976 and 8 years of a military junta hunted down left dissidents and committed human rights abuses.
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