New Pink Floyd single this Friday

I, too, have been following Woon’s posts from the beginning - and he has quite clearly and overtly never been a Putin supporter. He has expressed how some in Ukraine still have nostalgia for the Soviet Union, but that is not the same thing as being a Putin supporter.

All Woon did was point out an amusing irony in the song being sung. It was nothing to do with the lyrics. It was not suggesting that it was a foolish choice of song for Floyd to cover. It was not suggesting it was an inappropriate choice of song for Floyd to cover. Just that there was irony. And there is. That’s pretty much inarguable. By all means, you don’t need to find it amusing, but that doesn’t mean others can’t find some light humour in it.

In the midst of tragedy, people react very differently. You might find it abhorrent that anyone could find anything to laugh about, but many people find laughter to be a coping mechanism. I know you have a lot of personal investment in Ukraine, and that is great. I wish more people were as committed as you to giving their time, effort and what money they can afford, to aid Ukraine. But I do think that you’ve made the wrong assumptions about Woon in this instance.

We also have to see that our occidental indignation/outrage is not shared global-wise. Africans and Latinos and Arabs don't quite see it with a good eye. For many around the world, once again "Europe" is once again trying to impose its own morality across the planet.

You'd be well surprised to see which country voted what about retrieving Russia's UN "permanent vetoer" status. Yeah, sure: 50% of the states voted yes, but the rest either voted against the resolution (15%), abstained (30%) or did not vote at all (10% - for whatever reason, but a lot of them are would've voted no, seeing who didn't vote). Although a lot of the "positive votes" were more or less expected, there was a few surprises in the voting too.

And in terms of global population, that would be 65% did not vote for expelling Russia out f the UN (of course China & India representing a vast amount of that stat).

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Waters is anti-Zion, not anti-Semite. The two are often conflated. There are many Jews around the world who take the same stance as Waters. Being Jewish, and not agreeing with Israel’s occupation of Palestine, are not mutually exclusive. If the pig had featured only the Star of David, and nothing else, then that would have been hard to argue as anything other than anti-Semite - but it was one of a LOT of different images on the pig, and that it was a pig was in a way accidental/incidental. If it had been a sheep or a dog, rather than a pig, which was the original inflatable, then that is what the Star of David would have been on. It was associating the Star of David with pigs only if that is what one wanted to believe. That said, it was perhaps foolish of Waters not to consider that it could be taken that way, but he is the kind of stubborn person who would probably stick to his guns and think that if that’s not what he meant, then it’s not his fault some people take it that way.

Waters is a dick. He says and does some stupid things. But I don’t believe he is any more anti-Semite than Jeremy Corbyn, or any other person crucified by the media for their stance against Israel - which, once again, is not at all the same as being anti-Semite, and is a view held by many Jews around the world, too.