Backlash spreads across dozens of Bluesky comments
4 Sep 19 4:46 PM · 4d ago · 17 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 4
Over 70 comments accumulate on the post, ranging from condemnations of Sheeran's silence to defenses citing his prior donations and family history, alongside unrelated tangents on Israel-Palestine and U.S. politics.
Ed Sheeran Musician, tour headlinerMacklemore Rapper, former tour support actJohn Pavlovitz Substack essayist
Robert Kraft Businessman referenced in donation/Sheeran ties
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What people said 24 voices · best of 30 · verbatim
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Ed felt no commitment to honor his contracts with fellow musicians or even himself! He allowed a bully to dictate to who could perform with him. He did not stand up for himself or his friends! It is his shame and weakness to carry.
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Sheeran performed at Krafts wedding in 2022
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The ultimate white (usually male) privilege of not having to gaf
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I was glad when I went to block his music that I didn’t have a single liked song of his.
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This is absolutist nonsense, effectively saying that no performer is moral unless they publicly take a side on a genocide, a conflict, abortion rights, etc. Am I obliged to air my hatred for genocide at concerts of my jazz orchestra? How unfamous do I have to be for the rule not to apply?
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I think this is an oversimplification. Here’s why: Genocide by those who survived genocide is the worst. Those survivors carry the generational trauma of genocide. They are the abused who become the abusers. They continue the cycle of violence instead of ending the cycle of violence.
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His grandfather is a Protestant from Northern Ireland, his grandmother is a Catholic from the Republic of Ireland. They met and married during the height of the sectarian conflict. He knows the struggle, he understands colonialism. Shame on him.
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Yes, fuck Switzerland! Being neutral against fascism MADE THEM EVIL and it’s asinine we treated them well for that shit. Being neutral against oppression makes YOU the oppressor by extension.
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Free Palestine from genocidal Isreal, Zionist freaks, fascist Americans and theocractic apartheid! Free Palestine!! Oh and Fuck Israel, you anti-American traitor!!
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Like uyghurs in xianjing China, Nagorno karzbakh in Azerbeidzjan, rohingya in Myanmar and some christians in Syria. Only what your media tells you...
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It’s the ‘all lives matter’ argument, heard after George Floyd. The white Christians’ response of choice.
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Of course the UK and UN offered no such things.
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Fuck you, genocidal freak!!! Fuck Israel!! Fuck Zionists!! Fuck anti-American traitors like you!! Fuck BiBi and his war crimes!! Isreal is NO DIFFERENT than NAZI GERMANY!! ‘Never again’ apparently just meant ‘until we decide to do it’…so FUCK them all to hell. Save the world from theocracy!
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How many times have people stayed on the job after seeing co-workers unfairly fired by reprehensible bosses and deplorable corporations? I dont blame him for worrying about people's paychecks, but the 3rd option to ask them all about it first would have much been smarter.
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He holds NO neutral position on the Ukraine–Russia conflict because it DOES NOT clashes with Zionist billionaires. However, he considers the Palestinians in Palestine to represent excessive financial loss for his HIS BOTTOM LINE FROM his employers Zionists billionaires.
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"The Ed Sheerans in all our lives need to understand that privilege is currency that we are responsible for spending in a way that stands with and defends those without that privilege, something Macklemore chose to do on the biggest stage he had been given.” 🙏 🇵🇸🌹
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I am with the victims on both sides and with the people on both sides that want peace. I am against the far right to fascist government of Israel and I am against any terrorist organisation. And you are telling me that that is not allowed? Are you kidding me?
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He was not silent in the firing. He has been pretty silent in not firing his promoter or canning the anti Gaza venues. He could repair all - do a live collab performance on backscreen with Kneecap (because they’re Irish and all and visaless).
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Right. So let’s get real then? No more putting up with: - Russia - China - USA - Multinationals - social media - data manipulators etc So, not just Ed, but ALL of us take action. And stop telling others the rules. Live by them.
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Ed is scared. His Warner boss Blavatnik suicided Oliver Tree. Kraft is in the same Epstein list billionaire club which is about Israel, ilegal prostitution and covid-19 rackets.
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...And I did not speak out because I was not a child murdered by Netanyahu's Nazi IDF... Then they came for me... And there was no one left to speak out for me.
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Sheeran said he was forced into “…the most complex political issue on the planet.” What is complicated about condemning genocide?
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So are you saying that if Israel had remained silent after October 7th, they would have been complicit to the Hamas terror?
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i am sure Ed has made more than enough money to live 100 livetimes by now! so; if its not the money; what is it?
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