on June 29, 2025, 2:58 pm, in reply to "Fuck that. People are rightfully angry, and must stay angry."
Like I say, slippery slope. I am far more outraged by the actual mass murder of innocents in Gaza than somebody calling it out though - even if the language is that strong. 
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Tone policing "death to (organisation committing a genocide)" might feel nice and sensible, but this has moved way beyond the realms of civil discourse.
And frankly, anyone who sees "burn down a hotel full of asylum seekers", which people have actually tried to do, as comparable incitement to "death to the state army of a genocidal nation", is either stupid or dishonest. I stand to be corrected if someone from that Glastonbury crowd heads to Gaza to try and assassinate every last IDF soldier.
The toothpaste can't go back in the tube. We've all seen what's been happening for going on two years. I do not want to see one more video of exploded body parts or hear one more report of civilians herded to an aid distribution zone and massacred. I can't bear it.
Stay fucking angry about it and don't give an inch.
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….if I’m at a concert and that starts I’m out. Any decent person should know that’s wrong at their gut level. Like hearing ‘Everton are white’ at the game back in the day; you just don’t join in.
The guy is a tool. He’s crossed a line. I suspect through ignorance as much as anything. He’ll be charged, rightly. And now that ridiculous 31 month sentence for Lucy Connelly has become a protest cause for the populist movement, we won’t hear the last of it unless he gets the same. Previous Message
not my kind of music so haven't heard the sets but it seems the most contentious thing has been encouraging chants of "death to the IDF". Strong stuff, yes, and not something I would have joined in with personally - once you start going down the road of saying calls to violence are justified in one particular case you are on a slippery slope.
But I think the idea was to increase publicity and scrutiny of what the IDF are actually up to Gaza, and in that sense it has worked.
The usual suspects are of course popping up to call it antisemitism, the definition of which seems to have changed from "hatred of Jews" to "anything critical of the Israeli state". I wish they'd stop with this disingenuous bullshit.
Keir Starmer saying it was "not appropriate" for Kneecap to perform probably boosted their popularity no end. Extra cool points there.
So, this happened. But it is what it is, until it isn't.
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