Stew on Twitter: "But then you watched a European song competition last night and made it all about Middle East politics, so I suppose it’s in character. What a miserable life."
— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) May 18, 2025
Ah. That appears to be you, once again, trivialising an *ongoing genocide* as "Middle Eastern politics".
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 18, 2025
Shameful.
No wonder you had to turn to AI and instruct it to give you a free pass with gibberish about "swans". Few others will be giving you any sort of pass.
According to Stew, this scene depicts "Middle Eastern politics". pic.twitter.com/kja7crzEj2
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 18, 2025
In telling us to forget about the genocide and concentrate on the singing, Stew reminds me a bit of Tory politicians demanding that Marcus Rashford concentrates on football rather than on nutrition for children, or that Gary Lineker gets on with Match of the Day rather than commenting on politics. The conservative perspective is that everyone should just get back in their box so that the world can continue to be run for the benefit of the people who already run it - in this case so that Benjamin Netanyahu and the state of Israel can continue exterminating the Palestinian ethnic group without interruption.
To be clear, though, there are any number of Tory politicians who are by now far more progressive than Stew on the issue of Palestine, including some of the least likely people you could ever imagine, such as Edward Leigh.
Quite apart from the repugnance of his views, Stew appears to be completely losing contact with the world around him. 90% of social media reactions to Eurovision this morning have been expressing outrage at how close the EBU allowed Israel to get to victory and to hosting next year's contest. But Stew is oblivious to all of that - to him, it was just another routine episode of a singing competition. "Just Another Year", to misquote Johnny Logan.
Shameful by Campbell.
ReplyDeleteAs with the Hillsborough disaster, he seems to always favour blaming the victims of tragedies such as the Gaza Genocide rather than directing that blame at those causing those tragedies.
Either that or telling us to 'just move on' from something that 'doesn't concern us'.
Goebbels would be proud of him.
The Eurovision song contest is a disgrace for involving Israel. Israel is committing mass murder every day of the week and is not even in Europe.
ReplyDeleteThe European countries who voted for Israel in that clown show of a contest are also a disgrace.