When Ed Sheeran played the victim card after the Macklemore fallout, he did what all Israel appeasers do: he pretended genocide is too complicated to understand.
I actually just expected him to stand up for his other tour members being able to speak their mind without a billionaires filter. He didn’t have to take any side on the issue.
Exactly. He could have taken a noncommittal approach focused only on the right for fellow artists to express their beliefs. He would have seemed like an ally and a free speech advocate without actually having to share what his own beliefs on the subject are at all.
But he didn’t do that because he’s really a supporter of what Israel is doing in Palestine. He’s just too chickenshit to say so directly. It’s not about being a poor apolitical artist trying to exist in a fictitious middle ground where you don’t take sides. He just doesn’t want to share what his beliefs actually are because he knows it’ll alienate a good chunk of his audience and doom him to a future where his only live performances are for right-wing political rallies.
Or he doesn’t think and care about it. We have a great capacity to not care about other people. And sure people care now about Palestine but this has been going on for a long time and nobody cared.
I actually just expected him to stand up for his other tour members being able to speak their mind without a billionaires filter. He didn’t have to take any side on the issue.
Exactly. He could have taken a noncommittal approach focused only on the right for fellow artists to express their beliefs. He would have seemed like an ally and a free speech advocate without actually having to share what his own beliefs on the subject are at all.
But he didn’t do that because he’s really a supporter of what Israel is doing in Palestine. He’s just too chickenshit to say so directly. It’s not about being a poor apolitical artist trying to exist in a fictitious middle ground where you don’t take sides. He just doesn’t want to share what his beliefs actually are because he knows it’ll alienate a good chunk of his audience and doom him to a future where his only live performances are for right-wing political rallies.
Or he doesn’t think and care about it. We have a great capacity to not care about other people. And sure people care now about Palestine but this has been going on for a long time and nobody cared.