The Friend of my Enemy
Fire his a*s.
I think Pootypoot is a shiitebird, but this guy has the right to choose his friends. Is there some special musical note he’s unable to generate as a result of his friendship with Pugilist Putin?
There’s the expression “to damn him with faint praise” so maybe he should “praise him with faint damning”.
The more the politically correct want me to do something the less I would want to do it just to upset them.
A new wave of cancel. Anything Russian is the new white supremacist.
This guy....great conductor...
One of Gergiev’s signature images is when he conducts with a toothpick in hand instead of a traditional baton. “It absolutely doesn’t matter what I have in hand,” Gergiev said in an interview ahead of his Shanghai concert. “What matters is what a conductor has in his eyes, mind and heart.
All Russians have to do some serious soul searching because a lot of decent people did support Putin in exchange for patriotic glory, and did ultimately have some hand in appeasing and enabling the monstrous regime.
I don’t agree with all the demands that Gergiev denounce Putin. The world listened to Russian conductors and orchestras and composers all through the Cold War and did not demand they denounce anyone. If Gergiev has to denounce Putin you know any friend of Trump will be forced to denounce him as well.
If the guy were in charge of the defense of Ukraine, it would make sense to fire him for sympathizing with Putin, or even perhaps if he was in charge of teaching kids and was indoctrinating them to love Putin etc. But he is a conductor and as far as I can tell his job has nothing to do with his opinion. It is a horrible violation of basic human rights and counter productive to start persecuting people just for their opinions and drive them out of their jobs. Unless the guy is taking a knee for Putin at the beginning of each concert or some such, let him have his opinion about matters. Even though I think he is wrong, we are all safer and better off when people are at least allowed to have their own opinion then when people are forced to pretend to have an opinion they do not.
Who knew.
I thought only the unvaccinated were on the chopping block..
Maybe he if promises to get all his boosters and yells F Trump he can make a living
To be fair I bet a lot of ‘close friends’ of Putin are shocked that he did this.
FReepers cheering for cancel culture.
Unreal.
The guy has NOTHING to do with the invasion!
Compelling him to endanger his family in Russia by speaking out against the Russian regime is what we’ve come to expect from the fascist globalists.
A pox on the cancel culture and its junkies and groupies.
Compromise. Let him perform, but only use one arm. That way he can boycott with half of his body. This would also have the serendipitous effect of aiding us in easing our shortage of semiconductors.
No deviations from the narrative!
Gergiev conducting Bolero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJVWEstu_lM
Where have I heard that before?
Sorry but that type of coercion is bitterly resented by individuals even if they share the sentiments of those looking to force public demonstrations of fealty. Democrats at their core cannot tolerate individual conscience and behavior. They always seek to herd people into the collective of their design.
Land of the Free? Yeah, right.
We went from “get vaxxed or get fired” to “denounce Putin or get fired.”
Submit to my mask mandate or vax mandate, or lose everything.
Denounce Trump or the J6 activists, or get canceled.
Support BLM, or face the wrath of the cancel lords.
If you don't tow the YouTube, Twitter or Google line, your voice doesn't count.
Don't publicly express hatred for Putin, lose everything.
There is a distinct pattern here that I think people should start to fear. I cannot recall a time ever where you had to publicly declare your political conformity on everything or else face personal destruction. Does anyone else find this disturbing?
totally against this.
What’s next, support Trump, lose your job?
Oops...
https://www.legalscoops.com/can-being-a-trump-supporter-get-you-fired-or-not-hired/
This is covid 2.0. The government gangsters used the last 2 years to see what they can get away with and now they are doubling down. They tell you what goes into your body and what comes out of your mouth. Do not denounce him, it won’t stop there!