You sand you think musicians should out pressure on power, but also said you don’t blame him for trying to be neutral.
That implies 2 things.
One, that even if you don’t agree with his stance, staying neutral is somehow still an idealistic endeavour. In this case, it’s greed, not ideals. It has been pointed out by numerous people that he has taken sides in other world events, like Ukraine. It also negates his actions to drop Macklemore under pressure. That is not staying neutral.
Two, it also implies that there is an option to stay neutral when genocide is concerned. We all should be against it. In fact, as a species, we have made laws and treaties specifically about it, through the UN.
So, I understand what you’re saying, but it doesn’t hold water. You’re trying to both sides the issue, in the same way he did. He’s rightly getting criticised for it, including partly by you, but also let off by you.
So in order to tell me I’m wrong you need to read into my actual statements and say they imply multiple things which I did not say and don’t agree with. I don’t blame him for being neutral, you can pick apart my wording all you want but I explained my exact feelings over and over again elsewhere in the thread, he wants to appeal to all people who like his music which is generally speaking what most celebrities do (aside from ones who get their celebrity status from culture wars). Understanding does not equal endorsing. It’s called cognitive empathy, I see his perspective and disagree with it. You can try to push that as somehow defending him all you want but that is you choosing to interpret my very exact specific words differently.
Statements have meaning within context and also other details can be inferred. That’s how communication andlanguage works. If you don’t get that, there is no point in continuing.
As so many other people have discocered conversing with you. Strange hill to die on, but it must be hard to do the mental gymnastics to excuse genocide.
Being critical of peoples thought and actions is not telling them how to think. It’s telling them how you think.
I literally said I disagreed with Sheeran, explain to me what level of being critical you expect from me?
You sand you think musicians should out pressure on power, but also said you don’t blame him for trying to be neutral.
That implies 2 things.
One, that even if you don’t agree with his stance, staying neutral is somehow still an idealistic endeavour. In this case, it’s greed, not ideals. It has been pointed out by numerous people that he has taken sides in other world events, like Ukraine. It also negates his actions to drop Macklemore under pressure. That is not staying neutral.
Two, it also implies that there is an option to stay neutral when genocide is concerned. We all should be against it. In fact, as a species, we have made laws and treaties specifically about it, through the UN.
So, I understand what you’re saying, but it doesn’t hold water. You’re trying to both sides the issue, in the same way he did. He’s rightly getting criticised for it, including partly by you, but also let off by you.
So in order to tell me I’m wrong you need to read into my actual statements and say they imply multiple things which I did not say and don’t agree with. I don’t blame him for being neutral, you can pick apart my wording all you want but I explained my exact feelings over and over again elsewhere in the thread, he wants to appeal to all people who like his music which is generally speaking what most celebrities do (aside from ones who get their celebrity status from culture wars). Understanding does not equal endorsing. It’s called cognitive empathy, I see his perspective and disagree with it. You can try to push that as somehow defending him all you want but that is you choosing to interpret my very exact specific words differently.
Statements have meaning within context and also other details can be inferred. That’s how communication andlanguage works. If you don’t get that, there is no point in continuing.
As so many other people have discocered conversing with you. Strange hill to die on, but it must be hard to do the mental gymnastics to excuse genocide.