
ed sheeran did nothing lmfao, for all that these virtue signalers bash him, he wasn’t even the one that dropped macklemore🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ whole flock of groupthinking sycophants who attempt to bully and intimidate anybody that doesn’t vociferously preach their own rhetoric same kind of populist idiots that reported elders&intellectuals during the cultural revolution if they even caught a whiff of perceived dissent
I’m not going along with a trend or a group. I have no problem people speaking about politics. I just believe concerts are the one time when they shouldn’t. In order for me to one by definition I have to “be a passive follower who goes on long with a group without personal conviction” this is literally none of that
“A passive follower who goes along with a group without personal conviction” applies perfectly to someone who believes that politics - the stuff that affects people’s lives - iSn’T aPpRopRiAtE at a concert. Politics let you pay for your ticket. Is it really such a crime to have to live through a discussion about them?
“When i go to a concert, I don’t want to think about politics or what’s going on in the world.” By going to the concert, you already did. Politically, you were advantaged enough to get a job. Politically, you were not prevented from exchanging that money for goods and services on the basis of race or sex. Politically, you HAVE THE ABILITY to escape. The drones fly 24/7 over gaza. Can they?
You are trying to present to me the idea that DOLLY PARTON - she who created the Imagination Library for impoverished kids, a foundation to keep Tenneseee students in school (and just look at the demographics on dropouts to understand this), donated thousands of dollars for community support in the wake of hurricanes and fires when the gov wouldn’t step in - is APOLITICAL?
ok so let me create this hypothetical for you he totally disagrees with your and macklemore’s positions on the middle east and happily says so in a public statement will people celebrate him for standing up for what he believes in OR will they call him a zionist pig and start a boycott? answer that honestly
I think the best way to put this is that he doesn’t have a developed enough opinion on the topic that he would like to comment, or he doesn’t want to share his own, but you expect him to kowtow (even though you know what he says in that case would just be him parroting your own beliefs under duress). That lets you maintain your nice echo chamber, because even the musical artists you listen to MUST agree with you.
You’re attacking a position he doesn’t hold if he did believe that genocide or war crimes were occurring and said he doesn’t care, that would be fucked… except that isn’t what he ever said and whatever happened to talking about sudan, myanmar, ukraine, the tens of thousands of iranians killed by the regime among others you don’t call for that, you only virtue signal when it comes to that one single minded obsession