Spanish Reggae festival boots Jewish performer

[Syzygy321]

134. Agreed - we can all take a sliver if we push a point to its extreme -

But collective guilt of citizens for their government - to the degree that they should be discriminated against? (And musicians? why musicians?) That sounds a little too ISIS for me.

If the reggae guy had been Israeli, should he have been barred from performing?

Or should he have been marched up onstage and forced to publicly denounce his country and/or Jewishness as a precondition of being allowed to make music?

(I've seen that before: terrorists and totalitarian governments make their prisoners and nonconformists denounce their old ways and beg the public's forgiveness... Usually after torture, or under threat of punishment from either the secret police or the slavering mob.)

Ugly.

Word to everyone: if you belong to a group that runs around abusing musicians and artists for expressing the wrong ideology or being from the wrong side of the tracks, it's not a liberal group. Seig heil!