It’s an awful choice of misogynistic language that distracts from an important topic.
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As if the misogyny is the only problem (although it’s obviously loathsome). The whole interview is a car crash. He’s not an anti-Semite though because he likes the Marx Brothers. Dickhead.
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It will ‘read like’ he doesn’t support those things because he clearly doesn’t support them.
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Elights calls Bobby Gillespie an “embarrassing twat” for being an embarrassing twat.
Shame - I love Primal Scream (Xtrmntr particularly), but he’s clearly always been a twat.
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Didn’t he call EVERYONE a prostitute on ‘Exterminator’?
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When it comes to politics, Gillespie is so out of his depth. He was awful on This Week back in October, not having a clue what he was talking about.
As someone with Jewish roots I have no issue with people criticising Israel if those criticisms are legitimate, not anti-Semitic and are based in fact, but it showed a severe lack of knowledge when Gillespie stated that the whole of Israel has ‘been stolen’. The occupied territories of Gaza, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, West Bank, fair enough, but the whole of Israel has ‘been stolen’?
You’re not helping, Bobby. Seriously.
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Looking forward to his thoughts on every country in North, South and Central America and on Australia and New Zealand etc. I assume he will be questioning the right of those countries to exist too.
You think native Americans and indigenous Australians haven’t been treated as ‘second class citizens’ throughout the history of those countries?
That’s a ridiculous reading of her statement, come on.
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Until 1962 indigenous Australians were not allowed to vote. Restrictions on native Americans voting weren’t fully removed until 1965.
My point was really that Gillespie saying that Israel has no right to exist because it is ‘stolen land’ is ridiculously selective. It is ‘stolen land’ but then so are half of the countries in the world. If you single just one out and declare it’s whole existence as invalid then you can expect people to consider you an anti-Semite.