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Ed Sheeran songs removed from airwaves over Macklemore Palestine row
(www.the-independent.com)
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The reality is many people don’t have the privilege to be “apolitical”, because politics is the oppression of them by someone else.
Maybe you can keep quiet and “stay in your lane” or whatever, but that is privilege, and eventually politics might come for you, and then what?
Ed screwed this up, definitely was too blind to see how bad you look when someone directly adjacent to you gets strung out over “politics” and you just keep going with it like nothing happened.
I don’t think he deserves his career ended, but he definitely deserves this tour to sink until he can really understand and acknowledge what happened here. It’s not okay to just capitulate every time a rich person wields their power like that. We’ve seen it 1000 times, it’s how Weinstein got away with it, it’s how so much toxicity is enforced.
If you're a public person and your public statements can influence a lot of people, you can't really be "apolitical", yeah. Absence of a statement is also going to be perceived as a statement in support of status quo.
I think some subjects you simply can't be apolitical about. It's genocide, imagine someone not taking sides about Holocaust denial. For certain things, staying silent when you are asked to voice your opinion is just supporting evil. Tbh, he did more than just stay silent about it, he helped silence someone else.
Guy deserves to have his career ended.
Well, that depends. Who is his target audience? Where does his target audience by enlarge stand on the issue? Did he just shit all over his target audience with his actions/inaction? If the answer to the last question is yes, then he absolutely deserves to have his career ended. His career exists by the grace of his audience. Do not shit on your audience.
Sorry, I don’t think this should be career ending because it’s possible to learn and do better.
It was incredibly shitty what he did.
Is it forgivable is the question, and only doing better can answer it.
That's up to his audience to decide. It's not up to me, you, or him.
Yes, agreed