okwithmydecay@leminal.space to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agoBritish Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interviewwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up1177arrow-down10
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minus-squareSamskara@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 months agoTheroux is responsible for whom he chooses to platform and what parts of an interview to publish. He knew this would be controversial, generate lots of clicks, and might lose him sponsors that don’t want to associated with radical rhetoric.
minus-squareQuokka@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·2 months agoThe guy has literally interviewed the KKK, but this is radical rhetoric too far?
minus-squareSamskara@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoDid the KKK guy defend chants to „Gas the Jews“ or similar in his interview?
minus-squareDenjin@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·2 months agoDid Bobby Villain chant “death to the Jews”? Stop making false equivilence.
minus-squareQuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoDid Vylan call for the deaths of jewish people or did he call death to the IDF which is entirely different?
minus-squarew3ird_sloth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoNo but…he’s a KKK guy so…did he need to?
minus-squareQuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 months agoHe has interviewed neo-nazis in the past so it is odd that a rapper is the one who sets these “advertisers” off.
Theroux is responsible for whom he chooses to platform and what parts of an interview to publish. He knew this would be controversial, generate lots of clicks, and might lose him sponsors that don’t want to associated with radical rhetoric.
The guy has literally interviewed the KKK, but this is radical rhetoric too far?
Did the KKK guy defend chants to „Gas the Jews“ or similar in his interview?
Did Bobby Villain chant “death to the Jews”? Stop making false equivilence.
Did Vylan call for the deaths of jewish people or did he call death to the IDF which is entirely different?
No but…he’s a KKK guy so…did he need to?
He has interviewed neo-nazis in the past so it is odd that a rapper is the one who sets these “advertisers” off.