Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Perhaps I am, AF, which bothers me not one jot.

Understand your comparison with, I presume, Bob Vylan. I don’t applaud the way he/they behaved but when you compare their behaviour with the actions they were protesting about it really does pale into insignificance. Perhaps people should be more outraged about starving children being murdered in Gaza than they apparently are about a punk band kicking off about it as part of their performance.

Where Lucy Connolly is concerned, let’s not forget who she is and what she said. Indefensible imo, and nothing at all to do with ‘toeing the line’, unless the line you refer to is applauding arson and murder…which I doubt.
I agree RA, if half the faux rage about a pop star's rants was directed at what is actually happening in Gaza, there might be a point.

Whilst Vylan did make some unpleasant some of which were anti semitic comments, (though death tot he IDF wasn't) they have been misrepresented (quelle surprise) in certain media, the Daily Fail being one of them. Apparently though 45,00+ being killed is nothing to get outraged about!

If people believe the conspiracy theories being trotted out over Lucy Connolly's sentence, then I feel sorry for them, unable to distinguish what's a genuine issue and what's manufactured by certain right wing politicians and media to suit their own agenda.