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Ferande's avatar

Write to Royal Opera, tell them what you think of the dancer and what of that zionist thief of a director:

customerservices@roh.org.uk

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Good point. I also noted that any references to the director snatching the flag have been removed from the articles, and replaced with "members of staff" - I suspect this is to exonerate him, rather than because it was a mistake; I couldn't even find his name anymore. Hence I didn't include it in my post.

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John Horne's avatar

Name and shame - Oliver Mears.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Thank you!! That's it!

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Ferande's avatar

The West claims civilization and misses the whole point of the Arts. Theatre was an educational concept, the authors could mock and castigate the regime through art since time immemorial - but the West took it all as a visual performance, empty of any meaning beyond the surface, a pleasure before dinner.

That young man stood out as a great, true artist, a shining light in that den of decadence that dared to ban him for his honorable act. How heroic he stands, as slimy and shamelessly cowardly and impotent his aggressor revealed himself.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Your words really resonate. Yes, "den of decadence" - and also, yes, I should have included in my article, the true supposed revolutionary function of art and additionally, how fascist regimes ban art for this reason. A bad headache today!

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Ferande's avatar

How can we be well in all this traumatic horror?

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Davina's avatar

But didn't the Nazis play classical music over loudspeakers while they systematically killed the Jews they worked to death on a paltry diet?

And now the Jews, not the descendants of the holocaust Jews, are doing worse to the Semites of Palestine, while stealing even that from them?

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Jeanne McSherry's avatar

True Judaism has been hijacked by the Zionist mafia who hide behind the smokescreen of calling themselves ‘jews’ in order to silence anyone who criticizes them, by calling them antisemites. The Zionists in WW2 actively colluded in perpetuating the suffering of Jews in order to reinforce their case for their own ‘homeland’ in Palestine, they were prepared to - and did - allow the continuation of their suffering which, presumably could be compared to the ‘Hannibal Directive’ at the present time. One of Churchill’s top

Military men called the Zionist terror groups in Palestine at the time, the ‘savage descendants of Genghis Khan, the most sadistic ruler in recorded history. Nothing has changed. These Zionists rejoice in the shedding of blood and the infliction of suffering and they will not stop at Palestine. People need to wake up and take action

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John Horne's avatar

Another powerful article. Thank you. Civilisation seems to be worthless.

Humanity is supposed to be civilised, having, you would think, amassed a great deal of knowledge through the past millennia and learning from past mistakes - "never again..." - not turning out that way, is it....?

For me, here in the allegedly civilised West, I cannot turn away from the genocide, my heart broken by the treatment of the Palestinians and disgusted by the inaction, indifference, corruption, etc. of those who could stop it.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Thank you John. And I agree with every word you say, it all seems in vain when we can allow this to happen. Heartbreak and disgust are the reactions of normal people to this horror - although surprising how many people do not seem “normal” in this way.

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Davina's avatar

The barbarians never died away, they are with us still.

"By their actions will they be known".

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Kudos to Daniel Perry 👍👍👍 ... balls of steel, whatever his sexual orientation !!!

Or should we better call it "occidentation" ??? 🤣🤣🤣

To the elitist audience a Palestinian flag on stage is not appropriate, but almost two years of evidenced genocide and now mass-starvation is ... ??? 🤔🤔🤔

What kind of "elite" is the UK-population dealing with ???

It's the kind of "We-The-People" should get rid off ASAP because "civilization" for them is just a micrometer-thick veneer !!!

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Absolutely right! He does have balls of steel, as all true activists do, to stand up to the shitty establishment hypocrisy. And this will increasingly be the case, with the clampdown on civilian freedom of expression. I have immense admiration for this young man, it isn't typical of people in this environment to make such a statement. "Elite" can go fuck itself.

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

That young man should have got a standing ovation! But no, the phonies in the audience went there only to be seen as enlightened patrons of the arts without their having any appreciation for what art is or what art tells us says about humanity.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Precisely this!!! Snobby establishment gatekeepers and basically pretentious but lacking real souls.

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I Know Nothing's avatar

To produce a music worker with the requisite skill to perform at the opera you have to torture thousands of children to learn Western Classical music, something almost no one is interested in. Maybe 100k little kiddies are forced to learn piano, violin, clarinet and so on, forced to follow instructions left by a bunch of dead white Germans and Italians to produce one or two musicians good enough to play in an orchestra. The rest are discarded, left bereft of any enjoyment of music or conmection to something real and human that they might have got playing songs from their surroundings.

The parents of these children don't listen to Mozart. They are hypnotized by some bs about high brow art and the auxiliary benefits of learning to play Chopin. But there aren't any except learning to hate music.

Highbrow is bollocks.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Haha! Yes, it is all very fake and irrelevant, detached from the real world and just a status symbol - highbrow is indeed pretentious fucking shite, that the upper classes think makes them somehow elite and better, refined and superior. Utter BS.

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I Know Nothing's avatar

Amd the lower elements think it's a way to better the bloodline 😂

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Ah yes - sending their kids to private school and partaking of wine flights makes them feel they're somehow refined 😂

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