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So, I'm really not trying to be combative with you about this. I actually did exactly this already to find the Guardian link I sent. I've now read the second link, the CNN article, which says basically more of the same -- that he's potentially in trouble for playing that satirical character in "The Wall" because of Germany's strict regulations against Nazi iconography. Also he doesn't like Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Nothing about racism that seems at all convincing to me. There are some people who call him anti-Semitic because he disagrees with Israel's government, but long story short those are two very different statements to me. You're free to have a different opinion, but I read the two articles and I'm not convinced.
IDK man. It sounds to me like you're falling back on "It's all there, do your own research, it's all there" and sort of talking down to me because of my viewpoint, but I feel like that's not a fair thing to ask -- if this stuff is easy to find, you're welcome to find some and send it to me and I really will take a look. I'm genuinely open to someone showing me why I need to change my view if you're into the idea of investing the time to do that, but I don't feel like I should have to indefinitely search for new sources when I've already invested a certain amount of open-minded time into trying to research the question.
Like I say, I have actually read a few articles trying to look for the information. I see that there are certain people who think he's a racist. I read their reasons and in my opinion they're wrong. But you're free to see it differently.
Cheers mate
Yeah, I think you're right: I've seen the argument (I read the ADL page), and I just don't agree with it. In particular I didn't like how we're back to saying that he "paraded around on stage wearing an SS Nazi uniform." It makes about as much sense as those people who attacked the actress who played Skyler from Breaking Bad (or more accurately if they attacked her when the entire thesis of Breaking Bad was how Skyler was a bad person and it's a terrible thing to let yourself become like Skyler.) I mean, it may be that the ADL simply didn't give enough time to the situation to really understand it and misunderstood the intent of that uniform in that particular show, because they do have genuine Nazis to deal with who show up in genuine Nazi garb.
I have Jewish ancestry myself, and I see the actions of the Israeli government pretty similar to how Roger Waters sees it. Being anti-Semitic and wanting a particular group of Jewish people to stop committing crimes are two very different things; if you define being anti-Israeli-apartheid as being racist, then I'm racist too. Furthermore a person who uses racism as a shield against someone who criticizes their actions for reasons that have nothing to do with race, I think hurts their ethnic grouping in the long run a lot more than they help it.
Yes, antisemitism is racism. But not because of race, race is social construct. Have a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)