Bob Vylan

[Auden night mail]

I've mentioned before that Bob Vylan (well, singer Bobby) made a similar rant/statement/whatever during their otherwise excellent gig in town last year.
Assume it's part of their stage show and, bearing in mind they were scheduled on stage just before Kneecap, a bit of simple research and common sense by the BBC would have avoided (at least) the live screening and therefore the outrage.
Tie the beeb to a stake and burn them. If that doesnt work, fetch the ducking stool...

This blaming the bbc for everything is boring and predictable. Tory MPs have been doing this for a while now and now the punters on the street have started doing it, sheep like mentality surprise surprise.

 

[Silva Citizen]

I hear he wants his cancelled gigs back ;).

 

[The blue phantom]

We have a separate thread to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict in a broader context, let's keep this one about the thread title. If you want to discuss if he should face action for what he said, or whether he was right to use his platform to raise this issue, then fill your boots. Keep the more general stuff about the conflict to the other thread though, otherwise this one will probably end up getting pulled (like the Kneecap one which went the same way).

Why do they get pulled Ric. Isn't it easier to just remove the posters who are breaking the rules so that others can still post on an important topic.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Thanks for that. But wow.

Section 4 of the Public Order Act makes it an offence to use threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or to distribute or display to someone any writing, sign or similar which is threatening, abusive or insulting, with the intent to make that person believe that immediate violence will be used against them

So on that basis, saying, "Go and kill your MP, but not now, wait until later" is legal then. That's ridiculous.

Section 5 of the POA has no requirement of immediacy.

 

[Eebo]

I assumed that this was propaganda, but sadly not.

Rap song calling for death of Dua Lipa and Bella Hadid ‘tops charts in Israel’

‘Every dog will get what’s coming to them’, the artists apparently rap

www.independent.co.uk

The hypocrisy of most the right-wing British press and the BBC the IDF apologists knows no bounds, demonising Bob Vylan and anyone supporting Palestinians against the Worlds biggest child killers and amputee creators.

 

[Eebo]

Perhaps the brainless **** should've kept his thoughts to himself then, instead of whipping up a crowd

The recent No. 1 song in the Israeli charts explicitly calling for the death of named Arab celebrities who are nowhere near the front line, have never killed children, or medics in ambulances and are not part of an organisation responsible for bombing civilians in their own homes and have or starving millions of people, then shooting them on many occasions while they are waiting for food aid.

Is that not whipping up hatred?

That song can could only be No. 1 i lots of people buy or download it so that is not just one person's opinion is it?

Rap song calling for death of Dua Lipa and Bella Hadid ‘tops charts in Israel’

‘Every dog will get what’s coming to them’, the artists apparently rap

www.independent.co.uk

 

[BlueHammer85]

This blaming the bbc for everything is boring and predictable. Tory MPs have been doing this for a while now and now the punters on the street have started doing it, sheep like mentality surprise surprise.

100%

 

[Postman Pep]

The woke right seemingly can't get their head around the 'streisand effect'.



You can censor, proscribe and cancel as much as you like but this bullshit narrative is unsustainable in the long term.

Those people have been told that Gaza protests are hate marches; they can see it’s not true. They have been told that US campus protesters are largely motivated by antisemitism; they can see it’s not true. They have been told that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation because it spray painted military aircraft; they can see it’s not true. They have been repeatedly told, by Benjamin Netanyahu, that opposition to Israel’s war is antisemitic; they can see it’s not true. They have been told that the British government finds Israel’s actions “intolerable”; they can see it’s not true.

Now they are being told that opposing the IDF is antisemitic, that the Glastonbury crowd is more virulent than the one at Nuremberg, and that direct action is a form of terrorism. They can see all that’s not true, either, and however far their view is from the front pages, they know that they are far from alone.

The Gaza discourse has been Vylanised – but that diversionary strategy just doesn’t work any more | Archie Bland

Those appalled by Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the kind of media frenzy prompted by Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury appearance, are finding their voice, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

www.theguardian.com

 

[Auden night mail]

Mods thats piss poor taking out the content that people have taken the time and thought from either side to debate, wtf are you playing at?

 

[Ric]

Mods thats piss poor taking out the content that people have taken the time and thought from either side to debate, wtf are you playing at?

Posts that were about the Israel-Palestine conflict generally were moved to the appropriate thread.