Posted on 08/11/2017 11:50:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The guy is a total a hole
Elvis Costello is a pro-BDS idiot as well.
Although they are leftists, I’m a big fan of Radiohead, and I’m glad to see they recently performed in Israel.
Same here.
From earlier today: http://pitchfork.com/news/roger-waters-accuses-radiohead-of-supporting-israeli-government-in-new-interview/
Roger needs a visit from the Karma Police.
Brits by and large are horribly anti-Semitic.
And there they are, importing the Muslims who make a sport of raping their daughters and slitting their throats.
All of the members of Pink Floyd are progressive Socialists.
But it’s whatever to me, most or all of the musicians I like are total leftist pricks.
“Elvis Costello is a pro-BDS idiot as well.”
He’s every other kind of idiot, so he might as well be that kind too.
Being opposed to Israel as a political unit, is not “Anti-Semitic”.
I can’t tolerate Roger Waters or his leftist friends, therefore I avoid borrowing their tactics.
He can’t sing worth a damn either.
Don’t you see it’s all fine since he’s not Jeffrey Lord?
Why isn’t Waters being treated like David Duke? No difference whatsoever, except people actually follow Waters.
Best advice ever given to musicians, ‘shut up and play’.
He is more than just, “opposed to Israel as a political unit,” he is anti-Jewish. Having a giant pig with a Star of David on it is not anti-Israel, it’s anti-Jewish.
Okay. Being an idiot (or even an anti-semite) doesn’t justify censoring speech we don’t agree with.
Since he’s wrong, we should have no trouble winning the debate.
No one has suggested censoring him. Peacefully protesting his message is the essence of speech. He gets to talk, his opponents get to talk.
And let me note BDS is a foreign boycott here in America. We have laws which prevent support of a foreign boycott. At the direction of the State Department. Like the Arab boycott of Israel. I acknowledge even most Arab states don't follow it, but if an American company does, it's a crime. State could do that tonight if the administration wished. Which they don't. Which is why Congress has a bill pending. None of which has anything to do with free speech. Waters can bitch an whine in America all he wants about Jews and Israel. Can say things that would get him thrown in jail in Europe. Or Canada. Or Australia. Not suggesting he will. But advocating support of the Palestinian boycott he supports legally in the US at the tolerance of the administration.
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Picketing the event is the very definition of attempting to censor him. I’d like for Waters, and BLM, and the most pious adherent of Islam to have an open mike in front of them at all but times. I trust people to see what they’re saying for what it is.
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