Yeah. "Apolotical" bull fucking shit. If you look at 99% of eurovision songs, you'll see that's what they want - art without voice, a sort of generic smoothover that's is too afraid to even hint at a belief
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I'll add Eric Saade's own response
Den sjalen fick jag av min pappa som liten grabb, för att aldrig glömma var familjen kommer ifrån. Då visste jag inte att den en dag skulle kallas 'politisk symbol'. Det är som att kalla Dalahästen för politisk symbol. I mina ögon är det bara rasism. Jag ville bara vara inkluderande och bära något som är äkta för mig – men EBU verkar tycka att min etnicitet är kontroversiell. Det säger ingenting om mig, men allting om dem. Jag säger som årets ESC-slogan: United by music”.
Translated;
I got that shawl from my father as a little boy, to never forget where the family comes from. I didn't know then that it would one day be called a 'political symbol'. It's like calling the Dala horse a political symbol. In my eyes, that's just racism. I just wanted to be inclusive and wear something authentic to me – but the EBU seems to find my ethnicity controversial. It says nothing about me, but everything about them. I say as this year's ESC slogan: United by music”.
OK now let's try that with a different symbol:
I got that symbol of spirituality from my Indian father as a little boy. I didn’t know then that it would one day be called a ‘political symbol’. I just wanted to be inclusive and wear something authentic to me – but the EBU seems to find my ethnicity controversial. It says nothing about me, but everything about them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
I'm sorry your* family symbol is shared by Hamas. But to pretend that everyone will see that symbol and NOT think you're pro-Palestinian is at best massively naive. You're a grown-up now, so you have to start thinking and acting like one.
*addressing Eric, not Atomic.
Palestine ≠ Hamas.
Since your entire argument hangs on us accepting the opposite, you should probably find a new one mate.
True, but it seems fairly easy to find images of Hamas fighters wearing the keffiyeh. So it's not entirely inaccurate to say it's shared by Hamas.
The shawl is not the official or adopted symbol for hamas.
Unlike the swastika which was THE symbol for nazism. It's a symbol they used to identify party alignment, who is and isn't a nazi. Same thing cannot be said for the shawl.
You’re comparing a kefiya with a swastika?
Hang on a sec, let me check what I wrote...
No.
Checking what you wrote, yes.
Where exactly?
Are you purposely being obtuse? You wrote two sentences, do you want me to repeat those sentences? Do you have reading comprehension issues even deciphering your own words?
While it is true that there are (a) a comparison, (b) a keffiyeh, and ( c ) a swastika in my comment, the comparison is not between the symbols but between Eric wearing the former, and a hypothetical other performer wearing the latter, and both being supposedly unaware that their symbols would be regarded as political statements.
Second semifinals are today and I kinda hope there will be a riot going on in Malmö. Or at least make sure the EBU has to make more statements tomorrow
Worth nothing that the artist in question was born in Sweden to Palestinian parents and wore a scarf given to him by his Palestinian dad.
oh i think that badges the Israeli artist legally allowed to settle on their stage and force them out
And yet Russia is excluded.
Genocide perpetrators are allowed to participate with explicit propaganda. Everyone else is forbidden from even alluding to the crime. Absolute scum would be better off below the soil.
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