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What shitty things have your favourite bands/artists done? (lemmy.nz)

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Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. "At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage..."

R. L. Burnside killed a man "possibly at a craps game."

Varg of ~~Mayhem~~ Burzum burned a couple churches and killed a bandmate.

I could list other examples, but would like to hear from other people and other music genres.

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[-] rainynight65@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is a prolific anti-Semite.

[-] AssholeDestroyer@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

He's pro-Palestine and there's a villain in his stage performance that is a Nazi. I don't think Waters is an anti-semite though.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago

If he is pro-Palestine then he cannot be anti-semitic by definition

[-] Pea666@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

Besides all that, Waters is a dick really. Downplaying the role of the rest of the band in making Dark Side Of The Moon is a shit move.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 1 year ago

Also a Putinist.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Anti-Semite or anti Jew?

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

🤨

noun: antisemite a person who is hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Semite: Descendant of Shem, son of Noah. This includes Jews and Arabs.

Anti-Semite: a person who is hostile to or prejudiced against Jews and Arabs.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Semite

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It hasn’t been used that way in hundred of years.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anti-Semite: a person who is hostile to or prejudiced against Jews and Arabs.

"Antisemitismus" was adopted by Jew-haters in Germany specifically as more "racialist" way of saying Judenhass (Jew-hate), because they saw racism as more scientific than religious bigotry. It's still the same old Jew-hate. Notably, neither the Nazis nor other antisemites particularly care about Arabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Origin_and_usage

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