Glastonbury Censorship

BlindBoyGrunt said:
This is bullying by Israel lobbyists who should have no influence on decisions like this. The Labour Party has been cowed into obedience and now so has Glastonbury - what was once a symbol of counter-culture. Who else has to back down before we say enough is enough?

We will soon reach the point where AntiSemitism loses its meaning because it is being cheapened by continuous conflation. Meanwhile, festival goers have been saved the trouble of being able to make up their own minds.
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Well as someone said above, I can well imagine the Streisand effect on this one.
 
How many or what % of the total attendance would have gone to watch it? How many could even fit into the space for the screening? Can’t help feeling like this is another divide the left tactic/result much like the debate around trans women and toilets or sport.

Seems to work anyway.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
The union Unite has now banned the film from all of its buildings.
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Fair enough, seems an odd move? Who’d have been watching it in those buildings?

Definite Streisand effect, because I am now very intrigued by whether or not it does actually contain any anti-semitism. I’d guess many others are.
 
It’s not censorship, it’s just a choice made by the festival. The move might get the film more views anyway so I don’t see the harm. Glastonbury can show whichever films / bands it wants, it’s a private entity.
 
If Glastonbury have chose not to show it, that is their decision. Somehow I could imagine op supporting a company decision to stop something if the individual was on the right .

The fossil lost (thank god) and he’s not coming back . Brexit takes some beating , but appointing an anti nato , anti Ukraine politician who said the iranian revolution was the best thing to happen to Iran would have been the stupidest thing this country could have done.

The corbyn push in 2019 showed me the youth can be every bit as stupid as their elders when they voted for brexit
 
Boroboyyo said:
If Glastonbury have chose not to show it, that is their decision. Somehow I could imagine op supporting a company decision to stop something if the individual was on the right .

The fossil lost (thank god) and he’s not coming back . Brexit takes some beating , but appointing an anti nato , anti Ukraine politician who said the iranian revolution was the best thing to happen to Iran would have been the stupidest thing this country could have done.

The corbyn push in 2019 showed me the youth can be every bit as stupid as their elders when they voted for brexit
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The youth voted for him as their elders stopped building houses. This increased the worth of the elders houses but means that the youth have far less money than the elders and will be unable to retire.

Voting for someone to maintain the status quo would be stupid. The blokes opinions on NATO and Iran don't mean anything to you if you can't afford a roof over your head.

There's no point defeating the Tories to hand over power to the landowners.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
The youth voted for him as their elders stopped building houses. This increased the worth of the elders houses but means that the youth have far less money than the elders and will be unable to retire.

Voting for someone to maintain the status quo would be stupid. The blokes opinions on NATO and Iran don't mean anything to you if you can't afford a roof over your head.

There's no point defeating the Tories to hand over power to the landowners.
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Corbyn pledged loads that would have cost an absolute fortune and most likely further indebted future generations as a result of it. Voting for someone because he promises you loads of things is short sighted and it’s reckless in thinking there will be no consequences for it. So yes, the young can be every big as selfish and stupid as their elders .

Given we’re effectively in a climate crisis the idea that future generations can just continuously become richer or equal to previous generations is just not sustainable because it continuously eats up further resources we don’t have or the planet doesn’t have. I’m a 32 year old milennial and I’m working hard to rise up the career ladder but have come to accept I may not be as wealthy as my parents .

If we’re forecast to reach a population of 75-80 million the idea of younger generations having a big spacious house with plenty of open space needs to be nipped in the bud I’m afraid . 80% of uk land is farmland , 7% is urban and the rest is green space . There really isn’t much space to really build all these new houses to give younger generations . You can’t compromise on farmland % as we need to feed our populace , green space needs to INCREASE because we need to build the biodiversity and number of trees in the uk , which means urban space needs to be more tight together . We should expect to build vertically and homes will need to be more cramped to accommodate so many people .

The challenges our elders faced when young is different to what we face now
 
Boroboyyo said:
Corbyn pledged loads that would have cost an absolute fortune and most likely further indebted future generations as a result of it.
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No he didn't. He made pledges that would have benefited the country as a whole, the less well off in particular and were costed and affordable.
 
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