Isn’T This Inciting Violence.?

[webbo3]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48488732

Imagine the uproar if they said.
Kill a black person.
Kill a Muslim.
Kill a Jew.
Remember Jo Cox was killed by a right wing nutter.
Are the the lovely left or the nasty far left.
I expect Corbyn will be there being cheered.

[andy-hughes]

ich - // So they have.
Excellent news. //

Are you planning to attend the Festival?

There are almost ninety individual performance areas in the Glastonbury Festival, so you are not obliged to watch anyone not to your taste.

[ludwig]

The booking has been cancelled. Good.

[mushroom25]

//There are almost ninety individual performance areas in the Glastonbury Festival, so you are not obliged to watch anyone not to your taste. //

indeed. sometimes the more memorable performances are not even on the stage. years ago at Reading Festival I laid in my tent at 3-30 in the morning listening to someone being violently sick; this went on for about half an hour, maybe more. when at last it went quiet, a little voice said "are you all right Martin?"

[andy-hughes]

Ludwig - // The booking has been cancelled. Good. //

Do you have anything to add - why you think it's good?

[dannyk13]

Andy Hughes, I can't give you a link because, for some reason, it does not appear to be on the on line version of the Mail.However it is on my Mail Plus app. The actual wording is //"Kill Tories band gets the boot from Glatonbury"//
I await your apology with bated breath.

[ludwig]

// Do you have anything to add - why you think it's good? //

Well, if you insist. I don't like those lyrics or the type of people who would write them. I wouldn't like them if the word Tory was substituted for 'Labour' either. I'm pleased that they've lost a prestigious and perhaps lucrative booking.

[ichkeria]

I’m not going to Glastonbury as it happens.
A band which - even if it is “only” joking - about killing people because of their political views - especially at this time - in my opinion has no place at Glastonbury of all places.
And I’m relieved others involved think the same.
Do you remember Riot Squad in 1982 and *** the Tories?
The Exploited’s *** off Maggie you ***?
Even they didn’t advocate killing people.

[naomi24]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48492619

I'm pleased their booking has been cancelled too. I wouldn't have though an explanation was necessary.

[andy-hughes]

danny - // The actual wording is //"Kill Tories band gets the boot from Glatonbury"//
I await your apology with bated breath. //

Do you seriously think I should apologise to you because a newspaper has embellished the truth to make a better deadline?

Seriously?

[dannyk13]

Andy Hughes //but don't let the facts get in the way of your tabloid-style post will you.//
The above comment is objectionable as far as I am concerned, but on second thoughts I would prefer your silence to an apology.

[andy-hughes]

danny - // Andy Hughes //but don't let the facts get in the way of your tabloid-style post will you.//
The above comment is objectionable as far as I am concerned, but on second thoughts I would prefer your silence to an apology. //

Looks like you are out of luck on both counts then.

If you are that thin-skinned that you think being compared to a tabloid is 'objectionable', then maybe the News section is not for you.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I'm disappointed the band has been banned.

Covers up (to a degree) the generally accepted double standard.

Example: "throw acid in his face" is a joke when fat, ugly lefty makes that suggestion, but "not enough beers in the world to make me want to rape you" (a remark directed at a woman who trivialised mass rape) is not a joke, but a hate crime.