I have not seen Ukrainians butchering civilians and parading their naked dead bodies to cheering crowds. I have seen Gazans butchering civilians and parading their naked dead bodies to cheering crowds. These two conflicts are not the same.
And the wild thing is that he is undoubtedly rich enough he could just stop doing concerts and it wouldn't be a problem. So he could have told Kraft to go get fucked and just not play at his stadiums - or rally other artists to not play there because he's pressuring him to accept genociding zionists but instead he decided to.. side with zionists? What a fucking L]
I take a wild guess. Doing that (standing up to Kraft) would have had the exact opposite result. Meaning, it would be a boost to his career. Baffling, how he misread the general sentiment towards the genocide Israel is committing daily in Gaza and the West Bank.
Ho boy.. Do we really want to go down that road of digging out the atrocities of every skin color of people out there and then trotting them out as reasons why none of them can ever be trusted except for a few good ones?
Or can we leave the racism at home and acknowledge that skin color is not particularly relevant to whether someone is a piece of shit or not?
It is. There are great discoveries in Whiteness studies. Any human who qualifies as White, regardless of their skin color, is fully privileged and others' voices should be amplified instead.
This is missing white woman syndrome writ large. Endless local news stories, fbi involved, public outcry, cuz she looks like us, right? Something must be done! Skin color dips below eggshell? Crickets. Now add religion.
Well, you gotta understand, saying slava ukraine is pretty alright with milquetoast liberals who don't understand any nuance besides "war bad", but saying "free palestine" will make you poor and shot
+1 for the word 'milquetoast'; it doesn't get used near often enough.
And yeah, you'd think "genocide bad" would be just as easy, but when AIPAC owns, what, 75-80% of Congress?,... it suddenly becomes impolitic to state such a basic truth.
Except this is worse. Before, the venues would be in violation of contract and would have to refund all of the customers and eat the additional costs. Now it's on Ed. Dude played himself.
The war in Ukraine is a war, which "liberals" fully understand and support, therefore your dumbfuck shot makes no sense.
But this is imgur, so any nonsensical effort to create a rift between leftists/progressives and liberals/Democrats gets support. I even see people here trying to create a divide between leftists and progressives.
Eventually your political allies can just be yourself. Wouldn't want to ever sully your ideals with the nuance and imperfection and compromises of the real world.
The fun thing is some mouth-breather here will claim I'm both defending the absolute coward Ed Sheeran or a fan of his shit music. Or they'll say I support genocide or call me a Nazi or some other stupid bullshit, because you're all fucking idiots who huff each others farts.
Theres a diference between not stating which party you prefer in general and her not taking sides on something as one-sided as a genocide. Personally, I think both of those parties can fuck off. They're both right wing.
It's not just about party preference. Parton lived through the goddam Vietnam war, Watergate, Iraq war (to name a few) and now Trump. If you think it's OK to say "Well, I'm not gonna talk about this, my job is to entertain", how is Sheeran different? (idgaf about Sheeran personally, just interesting conundrum).
Grimlinnan
Fuck head ED he love’s Genocide.
Maraxus
Well, technically being bribed/coerced by just one authoritarian government is better then by two but still to little.
rigello
Man of culture!
nosuprise
His stance probably became real after Charlie Kirk. What they have done proves they are inhuman.
Hevach
Kirk was shot by a Trump sycophant hours after one of his favorite proxies called Kirk a traitor. So points for being technically correct I suppose.
AgamemnonsMemes
Welp, I guess he learned then huh.
IgnatiusTheSaint
Yup. Fuck you Ed
Efreeti
He's released a "public statement" and it's INCREDIBLY "both sides"-y
BobTheBogus
I have not seen Ukrainians butchering civilians and parading their naked dead bodies to cheering crowds. I have seen Gazans butchering civilians and parading their naked dead bodies to cheering crowds. These two conflicts are not the same.
MarkoffChaney
I heard Ali G is coming back, because of fucked up world and Ed Sheeran.
ElbowDeepInSaintCelestine
My only opinion about Sheeran is he had a good voice until he started using it for the wrong things.
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i thought we already knew he had no soul
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
McBzz
Bye bitch
MissySassy
Buy a comb you talentless fool. You've already made a $500 million.
ThailandExpress
Einstein9073
All that means is that the Israeli Lobby is more powerful in the United States than the Russian lobby.
Poopette
lady don't miss
alcamar
Ms Rachel is a national treasure
FCKYHWH
*Global treasure
ChiLLeCheeze
I bet she's been called a Marxist Socialist.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Pretty based. Hope she is one.
Perkunas687
She also can hoop https://bsky.app/profile/mewefree.bsky.social/post/3mv46e76krs2o
mrthewhitee
His actual statement on Gaza is worse silence.
ThatOtherMacAvoyWoman
Came here to say this. He both sides’d it and called it a “conflict” between Israel and Palestine. Abhorrent.
powerrangerpl
Are watching Ed fucking his career because he lacked the spine to stand up to a billionaire cunt?
AgamemnonsMemes
And the wild thing is that he is undoubtedly rich enough he could just stop doing concerts and it wouldn't be a problem. So he could have told Kraft to go get fucked and just not play at his stadiums - or rally other artists to not play there because he's pressuring him to accept genociding zionists but instead he decided to.. side with zionists? What a fucking L]
powerrangerpl
I take a wild guess. Doing that (standing up to Kraft) would have had the exact opposite result. Meaning, it would be a boost to his career.
Baffling, how he misread the general sentiment towards the genocide Israel is committing daily in Gaza and the West Bank.
Tpj809
"When your spine don't work like it used to before."
I0VE525P00GE
Peddler of utter mediocrity meets his justice. I couldn’t be happier. Respect to his band and support act for their integrity.
Gorglax9
The blood of dead Palestinian kids is what keeps his hair red
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
I thought it was the blood of his Irish ancestors revolting against him.
Grimlinnan
Imgur Censoring Again
darthbiscuit
“I’m in love with Netanyahu,
Kill some kids like Israeli’s do.
Last night they tried to get some food,
Dropped some bombs and they went KABOOM!,
Turned volunteers into red juice,
Then made love to their booddiies!”
EzraFell
It's because Ukraine is white. That's why he said it.
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ErgodicAnomaly
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Daliena06
Ho boy.. Do we really want to go down that road of digging out the atrocities of every skin color of people out there and then trotting them out as reasons why none of them can ever be trusted except for a few good ones?
Or can we leave the racism at home and acknowledge that skin color is not particularly relevant to whether someone is a piece of shit or not?
Margrave9000
Whiteness is an academic term and has nothing to do with race/skin color. Get educated.
Daliena06
"Whites simply cannot be trusted."
Your own words. And now you want to weasel around to something about "whiteness is an academic term"? Mmmhm.
Margrave9000
It is. There are great discoveries in Whiteness studies. Any human who qualifies as White, regardless of their skin color, is fully privileged and others' voices should be amplified instead.
IHaveAGuyForEverything
I had no feelings about Ed until he chose a side by not choosing a side. Coward.
twfx
This is missing white woman syndrome writ large. Endless local news stories, fbi involved, public outcry, cuz she looks like us, right? Something must be done! Skin color dips below eggshell? Crickets. Now add religion.
timGiraffeBeast
Dido
Delathi
What did she do?
Animorphs
Be a bitch on Civ 5.
DukeDarkwood
Founded Carthage in the 9th century BC, according to myth.
paulwall117350
Well, you gotta understand, saying slava ukraine is pretty alright with milquetoast liberals who don't understand any nuance besides "war bad", but saying "free palestine" will make you poor and shot
DukeDarkwood
+1 for the word 'milquetoast'; it doesn't get used near often enough.
And yeah, you'd think "genocide bad" would be just as easy, but when AIPAC owns, what, 75-80% of Congress?,... it suddenly becomes impolitic to state such a basic truth.
Sensiblyinteresting
Given his tour was pretty much canceled after seems not saying it also can make you poor. Macklemore on the other hand is doing a phenomenal job
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Except this is worse. Before, the venues would be in violation of contract and would have to refund all of the customers and eat the additional costs. Now it's on Ed. Dude played himself.
Sensiblyinteresting
Yeah, pretty insane how dude shipped his whole career instantly like that.
GroverKerr
The war in Ukraine is a war, which "liberals" fully understand and support, therefore your dumbfuck shot makes no sense.
But this is imgur, so any nonsensical effort to create a rift between leftists/progressives and liberals/Democrats gets support. I even see people here trying to create a divide between leftists and progressives.
Eventually your political allies can just be yourself. Wouldn't want to ever sully your ideals with the nuance and imperfection and compromises of the real world.
GroverKerr
The fun thing is some mouth-breather here will claim I'm both defending the absolute coward Ed Sheeran or a fan of his shit music. Or they'll say I support genocide or call me a Nazi or some other stupid bullshit, because you're all fucking idiots who huff each others farts.
TheFullLength
"I have no ethics, and I love money." - Ed "Good Goy" Sheeran.
rigello
Wasn't Dolly Parton praised for exactly the same mere days ago?
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Did I miss that? I have no idea what you're refering to.
rigello
She famously refused to talk about her political views despite obviously having ones.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Theres a diference between not stating which party you prefer in general and her not taking sides on something as one-sided as a genocide. Personally, I think both of those parties can fuck off. They're both right wing.
rigello
It's not just about party preference. Parton lived through the goddam Vietnam war, Watergate, Iraq war (to name a few) and now Trump. If you think it's OK to say "Well, I'm not gonna talk about this, my job is to entertain", how is Sheeran different? (idgaf about Sheeran personally, just interesting conundrum).