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Let me explain. Those are two different people, saying different things. So, to offer an analogy, you might like the novels of Natalie Haynes but not the novels of Lionel Shriver, or vice versa, because those are two different people writing different books. Do you see how that works? It’s quite a common occurrence, so it’s a good idea to get used to it.
There’s also the consideration that the people who are angry at Billy Bragg aren’t also trying to trash his career.
But, Graham, cancel culture is a bogeyman fabricated by the right wing. It doesn’t exist!
And that group of angry people doesn’t happen to include his record label, which, in a desperate, spinelessly submissive show of performative purification, is eagerly announcing the pre-emptive sabotage of his upcoming release.
One of the reasons that there has been such a proliferation of independent record labels was to enable artists to get out from under the often abusive contracts and behaviour of the big labels. It seems to be a case of swapping one tyranny for another though.
Also also also, I’m willing to be that a large portion of the people who object to the treatment of Roisin don’t hate on Bragg constantly–he’s a leftist on most issues, from what I can tell, and just has had his brain co-opted by the Trans Authority, like so many other unfortunate cases. If I were British and in his district or whatever, I’d certainly vote for him over whatever right-wing opponent he was facing, but I’d also be sending him letters arguing against his trans positions.
The Trans Authority, that’s very good.
PantiBliss, obviously a scholar, thinks it is hypocritical if people who complain about a thing to disagree with different people complaining about a different thing. As if by complaining about anything ever, those people lost the right to form views on other things, and must accept all other complaints from others as correct.
I don’t think PantiBliss is a real doctor. Happily, he seems to have become inactive on twitter for the last year.
Busy removing the labels from cans, no doubt.
Holms @7, I noticed that recently, if I click on any links to X (twitter), that they no longer show anything newer than a year old from anybody unless you’re signed in. It’s the latest trick to get people to subscribe. Musk must have hired a ‘creative paywalling’ team or some stupid thing. It’s not much better than not being able to see the site at all, which was his ‘temporary’ scheme for a while to coerce non-subscribers. This way X retains links from Google and elsewhere, while not actually providing anything relevant.