Editing Dee Snider (section)

== Uses of "We're Not Gonna Take It" ==
On July 11, 2013, after abortion rights activists sang "[[We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister song)|We're Not Gonna Take It]]" to protest legal restrictions on [[abortion in Texas]],<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/22818882/texas-senate-prepares-final-vote-on-abortion-bill |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130713104842/http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/22818882/texas-senate-prepares-final-vote-on-abortion-bill |url-status = dead |archive-date = July 13, 2013 |title = Texas Senate prepares final vote on abortion bill |date = July 13, 2013}}</ref> Snider tweeted that he is "[[Abortion-rights movements|pro-choice]]",<ref>{{cite web |url = https://twitter.com/deesnider/status/355540730434953216 |title = Dee Snider on Twitter: "Don't know why some people are so shocked I'm Pro-choice. The first line of We're Not Gonna Take It is "We've got the right to choose!"" |publisher = [[Twitter]] |access-date = 2017-01-20}}</ref> and that he did not believe that being Christian and "pro-choice" were mutually exclusive of one another.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://twitter.com/deesnider/status/355531648248459265 |title = Dee Snider on Twitter: "@FoxieNews Absolutely! Being a Christian and being pro choice are not mutually exclusive." |publisher = [[Twitter]] |access-date = 2017-01-20}}</ref>

In 2016, Snider recorded a piano ballad version of "We're Not Gonna Take It" for [[Criss Angel]]'s charity HELP (Heal Every Life Angel Possible) to raise money for pediatric cancer treatment and research. Angel directed the video.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.today.com/parents/twisted-sister-rock-anthem-remade-help-kids-cancer-t102221 |title = Twisted Sister rock anthem remade to help kids with cancer|author=Allison Slater Tate | date=August 26, 2016 |publisher = [[Today (American TV program)]] |access-date = 2023-08-12}}</ref>

In the wake of teachers' strikes in West Virginia and Oklahoma, Snider dedicated "We're Not Gonna Take It" to teachers during his "Rocktopia" performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York on April 9, 2018.<ref name="Chandler">{{cite web|last1=Chandler|first1=Chris|title=Twisted Sister frontman dedicates 'We're Not Gonna Take It' to teachers|url=http://www.wlky.com/article/twisted-sister-frontman-dedicates-were-not-gonna-take-it-to-teachers/19747779?src=app|website=Wlky.com|publisher=Hearst Television|access-date=11 April 2018|date=11 April 2018}}</ref> The song had become an anthem for protesting teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and elsewhere, and Snider had tweeted his "support [of the] underpaid teacher's cause" after seeing a video of music teachers in Oklahoma performing the song.<ref name="Chandler"/>

In 2021, Snider objected to the use of the song by demonstrators in Fort Lauderdale protesting [[face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States]].<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Orlando Sentinel | date=March 5, 2022 | last=Huriash | first=Lisa J. | title=Dee Snider slams anti-maskers in state in pro-Ukraine tweet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112797693/dee-snider-anti-mask-tweet/}}</ref> During the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]], Snider approved the use of "We're Not Gonna Take It" by the Ukrainians.<ref name=lovece>{{cite news | newspaper=Newsday | date=March 2, 2022 | page=A18 | last=Lovece | first=Frank | title=Snider OKs song as Ukrainian battle cry | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112797917/dee-snider-ok-song-ukraine/}}</ref>

{{blockquote|People are asking me why I endorsed the use of 'We're Not Gonna Take It' for the Ukrainian people and did not for the anti-maskers. Well, one use is for a righteous battle against oppression; the other is infantile feet stomping against an inconvenience.<ref name=lovece />}}

In 2022, Snider tweeted on X over the use of the song by right-wing activists: <blockquote>

ATTENTION [[QAnon|QANON]], MAGAT FASCISTS: Every time you sing 'We're Not Gonna Take It' remember it was written by a cross-dressing, libtard, tree hugging half-Jew who HATES everything you stand for. It was you and people like you that inspired every angry word of that song! SO F**K OFF!<ref>{{Cite news |title=Dee Snider🇺🇸🎤 (@deesnider) on X |url=https://twitter.com/deesnider/status/1563058596128034817 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240726220409/https://twitter.com/deesnider/status/1563058596128034817 |archive-date=2024-07-26 |access-date=2025-05-31 |work=X (formerly Twitter) |language=en}}</ref> </blockquote>

In November 2023, when asked after the [[2023 Hamas attack on Israel]] whether he was okay with [[Israeli soldiers]] using his band's "We're Not Gonna Take It" as a battle cry, Snider replied: <blockquote>"Oh, hell yeah. You know what? Israelis, the assault on the Israelis, people are losing sight of something. People saying that, 'Oh, the response is gonna be too intense for what happened.' Well, you don't get to decide on the response when you do heinous things to civilians. You don't get to say, 'Oh, that's enough, that's enough retaliation.' No, it doesn't work like that. When you cross that line, you're burning people, you're slaughtering people, you're raping people, you're just killing people, after what happened at that festival you don't get to say, 'Okay, your revenge can be this much.' No. Payback's a mothereffer. And I come from that school. You cross that line, you know… Sh*t's gonna happen. Sing it out, boys."<ref>Doron Friedman (October 26, 2023). [https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/10/26/sing-it-out-boys-dee-snider-reacts-to-idf-playing-were-not-gonna-take-it/ "'Sing it out, boys': Dee Snider reacts to IDF playing 'We're Not Gonna Take It'; The heavy metal legend says no one gets to tell Israel how to respond to the murderous Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, because the terror group "crossed a line."], ''Israel Hayom''.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tiktok.com/@ron43t/video/7299795019446177042|title=Dee Snider, lead singer of the metal band Twisted Sister ... |date=November 10, 2023|author=Ron Israel|work=TMZ|publisher=TikTok}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/twisted-sisters-dee-snider-responds-to-israeli-forces-playing-were-not-gonna-take-it-3520620|title=Twisted Sister's Dee Snider responds to Israeli forces playing 'We're Not Gonna Take It'|first=Anagricel|last=Duran|date=October 24, 2023|work=NME}}</ref></blockquote>