https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vgyn49y4l7o
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All of the remaining support acts on Ed Sheeran’s US tour have quit, after the rapper Macklemore was dropped from the line-up for making pro-Palestinian remarks on stage.
Among them were Finneas, the brother of pop star Billie Eilish, who said in a statement: “Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed.”
Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe and Danish band Lukas Graham also announced their departure. Irish folk band Beoga, who perform with Sheeran on stage every night, dropped out too.
Sheeran posted this on IG:
I am appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The suffering and pain caused on both sides is a human tragedy.
But when a side has a 1000:1 kill rate and it’s actively trying to remove/cleanse/genocide the other side from its foundation…
Hamas exists because Israel
Hamas exists because Israel
80 years of making the wrong political decision at every fork in the road.
Always on the wrong side of things.
Eventually that catches up with you. No matter who you are.
That is what we are seeing unfold in Gaza in our present times.
Walking out on the U.N. partition plan negotiations back in 1948 was a tragic mistake, and it’s only become more disastrous with the passage of the years and decades since then.
No musician or singer poncing about on stage like an uninformed idiot before a crowd of even less informed idiots can change anything about those facts.
Here is a simple take on this. I’m living here near a little town on my little half acre of land. Then some people move in beside me on their little half acre of land and they have support of the nearby town and several counties giving them the land and the house. It’s not the best land in the area but they get it for free. Now I’m sitting here on my little half acre minding my own business and the nearby town and counties decide that hey we’re going to give the people that just moved in beside you a quarter of your land and I go no you’re not so I put up a fence they come in and tear it down and take it anyway. Now my neighbors on the other side of me they want to back me but they’re afraid because my new neighbors have the backing of the local police and sheriff. So they just stick to their own business. Well I’m not very powerful but I’ll go out there and I step on my old stolen piece of land and I put up a fence again. This time The neighbor comes out with guns and start shooting my cats tears down the fence and says well we’re going to take a little more and so they take a little more. So we kind of settle into an uneasy fuck you across the fence for a while. Eventually my neighbor sees that hey my land is growing corn and stuff and it’s nice and flat so they decide that that’s what they want to so they decide one day they take down part of the fence and they move it another 50 ft intake my whole front yard now what do you think I’m going to do? I’m going to fight the whole time cuz I got nowhere to go. Then my neighbors decide they want my fucking house too so they come over start shooting my cats and throwing my shit out in the yard setting it on fire all what the help of the local police and sheriff. Now you tell me who the terrorist is?. That’s a rhetorical question.
bloody waste of words…
Whatever you say chubs.
That was not a lot of words. Maybe you should work on your reading. Or you could just fuck all the way off. Either choice would be a net benefit to the world.
Apparently words are wasted on you. Too dense for them to get through
How does one boycott Ed Sheeran when you already skip all his drivel?
Through mockery.
I made a reminder at work that Target took down lgbt products, removed “DEI” language out of their policies, and did a racism when I saw the party planner bought some shit from Target for a pizza party. Immediately the dog piling began and she’s terrified to bring a target bag here again.
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
-Elie Wiesel
“I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.”
-Zapp Brannigan
Ed Sheeran is a fucking coward that tried to say he can’t have Macklemore talking about Palestine because of the children in the audience. The appropriate thing for someone with $400m in the bank would have been to cancel the tour, raincheck or refund the tickets and find decent venue owners for the next attempt.
Also, I’m pretty damn sure that Robert Kraft’s stadium gets tax money for something. That should fucking stop immediately.
No. The proper thing to do is take the stage and repeat Macklemores words and cover the song Macklemore covered.
No that’s how you attempt to save face now.
His contracts with all those venues may cost him far more than you’d imagine if he just doesn’t show or drops out. The only telling thing he has done that makes him look really badly is his lack of any statements he could have made by now.
