He’s in a position of leadership at a national organization bearing the name of the country doing the genocide. And it’s too much to find out what he thinks about it before allowing him to perform at an event they themselves organized?

That’s a bullshit argument - this story is about one guy, and your attempts to generalize it into something that applies to everyone are dishonest.

All of this protracted benefit of the doubt you’re giving him, this moralizing, bleating “but he might be secretly a good person!” - why?

Your answer doesn’t matter. I know why, and the rest of us do too. Goodbye.

“Well then why aren’t the posts here full of [thing]?”

“What? Here specifically is literally full of [thing]”

“Yeah I know, but [different argument]”

This is what you sound like lol

This habit of asking questions that you incorrectly believe have obvious “gotcha” answers, and which don’t really relate that closely to the issue at hand…really not providing the rhetorical weight you’re hoping for.

The folks running that festival have every right to curate who they invite to perform. That really has nothing to do with what I choose to consume, but yes, I do consider the people behind whatever entertainment I might want to enjoy, as well as where I’m willing to shop. We all should, to whatever degree we can manage. Stupid question.

Finally - these folks are in the business of hosting musical performances, that’s the thing they are there to do, and cancelling one is precisely the opposite of their business model. You understand that right? Don’t you think ANYONE in that position would reach out to the guy and give him the chance to clarify? Don’t you think they did exactly that, and ended up discovering he’s probably a fuckin Zionist?

Anyway, your arguments are too bad to continue to rebut. See ya later.

More moving goalposts. Is he banished from the sane parts of the world? Or did he just have a concert canceled?

Let’s look at your question phrased like you’re arguing in good faith instead! Goes like this:

If you’re a U.S. citizen should you have to publicly denounce Trump’s fascism or else risk having your public performances canceled in sane parts of the world?

It was a shitty “gotcha” in the first place, but boy is it worse when it’s accurate. No wonder you resorted to hyperbole.

I mean, respectfully, what the fuck are you talking about? An enormous amount of content on the fediverse in general, not just here, is literally public disavowal and complaints about our regime.

As a US citizen and seeing what’s happening to this place, yes, I would recommend everywhere find out where a given American stands on various issues when deciding to allow them in or not. Easy question.

Such half-assed, predictable, lazy moving goalposts here.

“All Jews now…” (extraordinary statement from you)

“Well no, how about because he’s a citizen of the country perpetrating a genocide, crime of all crimes?”

“Yeah exactly, in this specific case they’re targeting him cuz of his national origin!” (roughly an entire galaxy away from your original claim)

If you’re being disingenuous (my assumption) - go fuck yourself. If you’re actually just this bad at thinking and argumentation, strongly consider sticking to reading the comments of others.