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EndemicEarthling

Brisbane city council has pulled funding for a music awards after winner used her acceptance speech to denounce #genocide, while the conservative LNP Queensland state government also considers withdrawal of financial support.

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Jazz composer and pianist #KelleeGreen used her acceptance speech at the #2025QueenslandMusicAwards to speak of the suffering of #Palestinian civilians and to support peaceful protest against Australian government complicity in selling weapons to Israel (in contravention of obligations under international law, including a specific injunction by the #InternationalCourtOfJustice).

The claim by the council is that her speech was 'divisive'.

Treating opposition to genocide as #divisive is (implicitly or explicitly) to normalise being pro-genocide as a legitimate political stance.

Normalising support for genocide is itself a crime under #InternationalLaw.

By only ever punishing anti-genocide speech, and never those who express unqualified support for a genocidal regime (or who even seek to justify its extreme violence through appeal to a 'right to defend itself'), political authorities send the clear message that we ought to be tolerant of those who support exterminative violence and intolerant of those who oppose it.

Never.

The Guardian · Music industry figures rally behind Queensland music award winner after pro-Palestine controversyBy Kelly Burke
#Qldpol#Auspol
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Nonilex

Another fired employee said the hundreds of dismissals meant that the #aid agency now had only a skeleton crew to respond to #humanitarian crises.

The appointee running day-to-day operations at #USAID is #PeteMarocco, a #State Dept official overseeing foreign aid who was a #divisive figure at the agency & other government departments in the first #Trump administration. Early this month, #MarcoRubio announced he was taking over the aid agency as acting administrator.

#MassFirings#Musk#USpol
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EndemicEarthling

On those who warn against 'divisiveness'

In a time of acrimony and unrest, politicians urge social cohesion and decry those who stoke division. They label protesters troublemakers and haters. They bring in new regulations making it more difficult for ordinary people to publicly criticise the injustices of the status quo and to organise against them in a coherent and effective manner (i.e. #CriminalisationOfDissent).

But real social cohesion can only be built on mutual respect across differences in combination with a sense of shared responsibility for common goods. Respect requires trust. Trust requires honesty and a sustained commitment to working towards shared goals. And so when those who demonise protesters for 'divisiveness' have themselves demonstrated a sustained commitment to dishonesty in service of merely private goods, or goods for a limited group at the expense of those outside it, then it is the accusers who are guilty of their own complaint.

To be established and maintained, social divisions and exclusion always require both the propagation of falsehood and the use of violence to suppress the truth. Thus, to speak frankly about actually existing injustices is not to be divisive, but to hold open the only path towards any kind of genuine social peace.
#divisive #SocialCohesion

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Chuck Darwin

Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s massive grift was embarrassingly revealed during his debate against Representative #Colin #Allred Tuesday night.

Cruz has been seriously struggling in his Senate race against Allred, and on Tuesday, it seemed that Allred dealt several critical blows to the Texas Republican.

In his closing remarks, Allred didn’t hold back.
“We’re all Americans, and we’re all Texans. We need a leader who will bring us together around our shared values. That’s what I’m trying to do during my six years in Congress.
💥That’s the exact opposite of what Senator Cruz has done,” Allred said.

“Whatever he says tonight, you’ve seen it for 12 years. He’s been one of the most #divisive senators in the entire country. If you don’t like how things are going in Washington right now, well, you know what, 💥he is singularly responsible for it.

“He has introduced this new kind of ‘#angertaiment’ where you just get people upset and then you podcast about it, and you write a book about it, and you make some money on it,
but you’re not actually there when people need you.
Like when the lights went out, when 30 million Texans were relying on a senator to spring into action,
he went to Cancun.
That’s who he is,” Allred said.

newrepublic.com/post/187198/te

The New Republic · Ted Cruz Exposed as a Scammer in Embarrassing Debate SmackdownColin Allred expertly roasted Cruz during their Senate debate.
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Pete Orrall (defunct account)

@flexghost The #fascist message is loud and proud from these #assholes. My greatest #fear is that too many people are unable to recognize it.

At this stage, anyone who still supports #trump has willfully abandoned both their conscience and any/all capacities for #empathy and #compassion. They have chosen to accept and live a #delusional and #divisive #reality where, quite bluntly, anyone who doesn't share their beliefs is the #enemy.

The number of #people, #corporations, #religious groups, and #organizations willing to throw massive amounts of #money and #support behind Trump and this #maga movement is simply staggering. We, as #americans and #humans, are living in critically #dangerous time. #History is repeating itself in real time yet too many people are incapable of recognizing it and/or don't care.

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MarkRDavid

Sick of Your Blue State? These Real Estate Agents Have Just the Place for You.

#politics #divisive

nytimes.com/2024/04/18/us/gree

This one is particularly personal for me, as I'm moving in July, probably to a state other than MA. Considering moving to a purplish state, where my Dem vote will have more impact. Looks like SC won't work out for me 😆

@GottaLaff - liking the Canada idea, but had a traumatic move only 3 years ago, and not quite ready for that just yet...

The New York Times · Sick of Your Blue State? These Real Estate Agents Have Just the Place for You.By Eduardo Medina
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EndemicEarthling

Hate Speech: reflections on Peter Dutton at the Opera House #Auspol 4/3

PS I note that while #Dutton acts as though criticism of the government of #Israel is hateful smearing of all #Jewish people everywhere, he displays an equal lack of nuance in the opposite direction when it comes to #Palestinians, who (in Dutton's mind) are all guilty of the actions of a small group amongst them. Hence he dismissively (libellously) labels all expressions of concern for Palestinian suffering as "Hamas sympathising".

And then he proclaims himself a unifier and those who oppose him as 'divisive'.

While far from full-blown, make no mistake, this speech expresses the fundamental might-makes-right stance of #authoritarianism.

1. Those who are my allies are above criticism, even if they commit horrific atrocities.

2. Those who criticise me and my allies are #divisive, and ought to face social opprobrium and coercive state violence.

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#Wicked #Director Was Inspired By One Of #StevenSpielberg's Most #Divisive #Films

The first part of a massive two-#film #adaptation of "#Wicked" directed by the venerable #JonMChu. Although the stage version of "Wicked" only runs about two and a half hours, Chu has elected to expand it into a "Dune"-sized event, spreading the story across over four hours of film.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon

slashfilm.com/1546114/wicked-d

SlashFilm · Wicked Director Was Inspired By One Of Steven Spielberg's Most Divisive Films - SlashFilmDirector Jon M. Chu looked to Steven Spielberg's Hook and its reliance on practical sets for his approach to the Wicked movie musical adaptations.
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Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES

"Alabama bans DEI programs in public colleges and the teaching of ‘divisive concepts’"

:why:

What's going on in Alabama? Don't they know how knowledge is acquired? Do they have this cartoonish notion that when a scientist makes a discovery, everyone else immediately sees the light and falls in line?

The acquisition of knowledge is an inherently divisive process.

The law on "divisive concepts" is going to be challenged and will be overturned.

#USNews #USPol #Alabama #DivisiveConcepts #divisive #knowledge #law #idiots

nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/alabam

NBC News · Alabama governor signs DEI ban affecting colleges and teaching 'divisive concepts'By Curtis Bunn
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Cat West

@shoq Geez. I guess success does breed disconnection with current times. So glad I don’t watch that show. These kinds of generalizations are designed to pit us against each other in the same way Welfare Queen was designed to classify all welfare recipients as frauds, and only Black People as undeserving. BTW, She was on welfare while building her career. Was she a success story of ‘self made’? Or is she the result of society helping each other? Did she forget? #Divisive

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