Posted on 01/03/2018 11:54:24 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Give us today our daily outrage: the pop star Lorde has decided – after much consideration – to cancel her concert in Israel after a letter from BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) supporters. Cut to a rightwing American rabbi taking out a full-page advert in the Washington Post to denounce her as antisemitic, and also hold her responsible for New Zealand’s entire foreign policy.
All of this seems a bit harsh – expecting a 21-year-old to have a fully formed opinion on something she readily admitted to not knowing much about. This is a woman who sang on her first album about never having been on a plane. This is a woman who also made one of the best albums of 2017, so probably didn’t have a lot of time to refresh her news app every time something happened in global politics (and that would have been a lot of times). This is a woman who thought about something for a while, sought some advice, and then made a decision.
I am not sure Lorde should be the flashpoint for people’s anger here. And yet popsters seem to get it in the neck a lot of the time. So here are some tips for besieged entertainers who enter the arena of geopolitical or social issues.
Middle Eastern conflicts
“The Middle East” in itself is a weird term because that’s not even where it is on a map (BRITISH EMPIRE KLAXON), but when the US president is referring to a country called “Nambia”, the bar for geographic accuracy has been set low. Firstly there’s the Israel-Palestine conflict, which is best avoided if you don’t know too much about it. Do not, as Vox once did, write an “explainer” of the conflict that got virtually everything wrong and invented a non-existent bridge.
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I read an interview with Nicolas Cage where he said he consciously refrains from making political or religious statements either about his politics or religious views. His point was that he didn’t want people to skip his movies because they disagreed with him.
I wish more entertainers would do that.
...but when the US president is referring to a country called “Nambia”, the bar for geographic accuracy has been set low.Really? Is that lower than the previous one referring to the 57 states he'd visited in the US?
#3. Was Obama referring to the Upper 57 States or the Lower 57 states?
My map is gonna need more room on it.
I think his best "Dancing the Limbo" performance was his reference to the Marine Corpse...
Ugh....her face....and her soul.....if she has one.
Can you post your comment again, in Austrian, please?
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