Jazz Has Been Blamed for Many Things [Twitter]

Warts on the feet pic.twitter.com/OJj8SSHd49

— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) August 25, 2022

Bad teeth pic.twitter.com/I6jOuiWmTO

— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) August 25, 2022

There are more tweets in the stream. Here's the last one in the original thread, quoting Paul Whiteman, known as "The Kind of Jazz" in his time (the 1920s and 1930s).

Everything pic.twitter.com/Y7HOlU0LLr

— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) August 25, 2022

And then there's these in the comments, among many others:

The Jazz Problem, August 1924 pic.twitter.com/4GD7ITtkD3

— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) August 26, 2022

Don't forget the anti-Semitic white supremacist Henry Ford tried to ban jazz claiming it caused unsociability, sensuality, infantilism, & wasmoral poison (& claimed Jews were behind it). Citation: Emery Warnock, "The Anti-Semitic Origins of Henry Ford's Arts Education Patronage" pic.twitter.com/gfgNItHAo1

— Brock Bahler (he/him) 🌻 (@brockbahler) August 26, 2022

H/t Tyler Cowen.

As a point of refence, see my post, Official Nazi Policy Regarding Jazz.