Billy Corgan is scared of the “hashtag generation” going after his free speech

Billy Corgan built a successful music career on being an angsty rock ‘n’ roll boy, and in recent years he has leveraged that angst into a website about cars or something, a producing gig with TNA Wrestling, and a memoir that may or may not cover the entirety of human history. Despite all that success, though, Corgan is still just a rat in a cage. He has fears and anxieties like any other normal person does, and he recently appeared on a popular radio show to discuss them with a guy who knows all about fears and anxieties (because he constantly invents them): High-profile conspiracy theorist/asshole Sandy Hook truther Alex Jones.
Corgan was on the show to promote a vaguely defined documentary he’s working on about the history of America, explaining that he interviewed a bunch of people across the country who all expressed the surprising idea that America is still the best. From there, Corgan somehow got onto evil tech corporations who are cutting deals with “Communists and Fascists” to spread their influence across the globe and snuff out freedom, an assertion that Jones (of course) quickly accepts and then uses as a segue to bring up an article that Corgan sent him about how President Obama’s administration refused to stop people from pirating The Expendables 3 for some reason. Obviously, it all comes back around to those evil tech companies, which have become so powerful that they’re somehow profiting from illegal downloads and/or the continued collapse of democracy around the world.
In case it’s not clear, the conversation is largely bananas. Corgan moseys around whatever his point is, Jones tosses in meaningless phrases that only he truly understands, and it all builds to the reveal of who the true enemies of freedom are: “social justice warriors.” Pitchfork somehow managed to unpack this part of the discussion, which kicked off with Jones alleging that young people lash out at everyone because they’re just looking to get offended, saying: