Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 03:23:34 JST simsa04

   in reply to

   • Lohan Gunaweera
   From the article:
   
   «To great applause, the show began in Berlin with the following message on the video screens installed above the stage: “On a matter of public interest: A court in Frankfurt has ruled that I am not an anti-Semite. Excellent. Just to be clear, I condemn anti-Semitism unreservedly.”»
   
   The court in Frankfurt said nothing like that. It said:
   
   «[That] despite the Waters show making use of “symbolism manifestly based on that of the National Socialist regime” [...] the concert should be “viewed as a work of art” and that there were not sufficient grounds on which to justify banning Waters from performing. “It is not for the court to pass judgment on this,” a spokesperson told German media.
   
   The most crucial point, according to the court, was that the musician’s performance “did not glorify or relativise the crimes of the Nazis or identify with Nazi racist ideology”, and nor was there any evidence that Waters used propaganda material in his show, the spokesperson added. »
   (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/25/roger-waters-pink-floyd-wins-legal-battle-to-gig-in-frankfurt-amid-antisemitism-row)
   
   Not glorifying Nazi-ideology doesn't mean one isn't or can't be an anti-Semite. In fact, the court said nothing about anti-Semitism. That Waters says it exonerated him from anti-Semitism is plain false and manipulative.
   
   That WSWS doesn't draw that simple distinction shows how much it is part of the internationalist yellow press.
   • Embed this notice
     Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 03:23:35 JST Lohan Gunaweera

     Roger Waters in Berlin: A powerful musical and political statement against fascism, militarism and war https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/25/roge-m25.html

     #ThisIsNotADrill #Berlin #NoWar #Music