Bob Vylan è uscito dai festival musicali a Manchester e Francia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz09y1r1y1ro
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Bob Vylan è uscito dai festival musicali a Manchester e Francia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz09y1r1y1ro
di PM_THE_REAPER
7 commenti
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
No sympathy really, he should have known better. Was incredibly naive to think there’d be no backlash.
**Edit**: interesting to see this gaining downvotes already. Not sure what people expected to happen.
**Edit 2**: For the benefit of everyone replying, yes, *of course* I despise what the Israeli government are doing in Gaza. It’s absolutely disgraceful and the government should be held accountable. That doesn’t mean that Bob Vylan have license to say what they said. It is possible to hold more than one opinion.
Student unions should book them since the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 prevents them from being no platformed.
Reminder that the Telegraph published this headline in 2015:
[Death to the Labour Party](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11623738/Death-to-the-Labour-Party.html)
It’s all a bit dramatic isn’t it. I don’t know Bob Vylan but I probably wouldn’t enjoy their company all that much, but starting a chant with some University poshos larping as the proletariat shouldn’t be dominating the headlines as much as it has. Incitement really should carry some sort of broad ability to actually be able to carry out the aims of the chant. Anyone in the UK who has ever said “death to the IDF” at a music festival lacks the ability to do anything to support that aim, making it a meaningless, self-pat on the back, and nothing more than that.
Still, if private music festivals want to drop musicians, then they’re also perfectly within their rights to do that.
This is freedom of speech. You can say what you want to, but you aren’t free from the consequences
they’ve just embarrassed a load of politicians who make feeble statements about gaza, but who are impotent about stopping the killing.
they’d rather be mad at a punk band than face their own uselessness.
Look forward to anyone who’s ever said ‘Fuck XYZ institution’ getting banned from public appearances for ‘inciting non consensual sex’.