Montreal Symphony Orchestra drops Russian piano prodigy from concerts amid backlash

CTV News ^ | 9 March 2020 | Selena Ross

[oblomov]

So he's being cancelled, even though he's expressed opposition to the war, and support for Ukraine.

This "war" is a distraction from the war at home.

This is just another Kulturputsch by the left. Conservatives are their real intended, eventual targets. Russians are just in the way at the moment.

[ought-six]

This is ridiculous.

[George from New England]

The whiplash will be epidemic with all the two-faced people spouting off today and tomorrow.

[rey]

Geez, these folks would not have let Jews into the US during WWII because they were German.

[Husker24]

Could you imagine if they did this to an Afghani because of a terrorist attack committed by someone of the same nationality?

[PGR88]

The “deep state” and corrupt media must be laughing their asses off and saying to themselves: “We just had these idiots turning themselves inside-out over covid, masks, vaccines - and here we go, as soon as that ended, we could do it all over again!”

[1Old Pro]

In two Facebook posts, Malofeev has decried the war, first writing on March 2 that "the truth is that every Russian will feel guilty for decades because of the terrible and bloody decision that none of us could influence and predict."

Good for him. And he lives in Russia. We have a representative government and they are destroying our country and we have no influence. Go figure. Our international leadership needs to be given the boot at almost every level, sheesh, Trudeau is just another example.

[FenwickBabbitt]

It’s amazing how quickly the artsy leftists have fully embraced blacklisting, even after whining for decades about the old Hollywood blacklist which often targeted actual pro-Stalin Marxists (and let’s never forget Stalin murdered tens of millions of human beings). The left wants to make sure that blacklisting/cancel culture is the norm across the board as a form of control and a way of creating fear.

[Borges]

Pure idiocy.

[NeverTyranny]

It’s just plain stupid. Who are they hurting? The prodigy. Dopes. All posturing.

[rrrod]

Good point.

[EEGator]

Hurt a young woman, does nothing to Putin.
What a bunch of a-holes.

[kiryandil]

20-year-old Alexander Malofeev, who has been outspoken against the invasion of Ukraine

Here's your TechnoDicktaters hard at work, MercyFlush...

[EEGator]

young man

[kiryandil]

Geez, these folks would not have let Jews into the US during WWII because they were German.

And they can vote...

[kiryandil]

It’s amazing how quickly the artsy leftists have fully embraced blacklisting, even after whining for decades about the old Hollywood blacklist which often targeted actual pro-Stalin Marxists (and let’s never forget Stalin murdered tens of millions of human beings). The left wants to make sure that blacklisting/cancel culture is the norm across the board as a form of control and a way of creating fear.

I wouldn't have a problem with the Russians cancelling some of the cancellers, pour encourager les autres - ala Trotsky.

[Iowa Slim]

This anti-everything-and-everybody-Russian moral panic is getting petty, shabby, and vindictive.

[Hypo2]

He should burn a Russian flag and apply as a refugee…

[MercyFlush]

Pidor Putin is your dictator.

[Puppage]

Stupidity