“You’re bullying namseok.”
No. We’re cultivating a culture in which bravery is honoured and platforming an abuser is seen as wrong and carries social consequences..
A pregnant woman has succumbed to her wounds after being shot by Israeli forces three days ago south of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency reports.
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To Namjoon,
You had the clearest opportunity today to address the Chris Brown situation and you chose not to.
So I’m not going to keep asking you to talk about it. Your silence is an answer in itself even if it’s not the answer many of us wanted.
What I still find frustrating is the idea that we should simply “separate the art from the artist.” How are we supposed to do that when you spent years making your art so deeply connected to who you are, what you believe in, and the values you publicly shared with us?
You didn’t just give us music. You gave us your words, your beliefs, and your perspective. You asked us to listen to what you had to say about the world. That connection was part of what made your art meaningful to so many of us.
And if those messages were only something you used to sell records, while you privately believe something completely different, then that makes the situation even more absurd and sick. It would mean that the values people connected with were just a performance and that the person behind the art was never really present in it at all.
So when your actions contradict the values we associated with you, of course that changes how some of us experience your work. That isn’t hate. It isn’t “being an anti.” It’s a natural consequence of seeing the person behind the art contradict those values.
You are free to make your choices. But we are equally free to decide what those choices mean to us.
And honestly, telling people to separate the art from the artist feels less like maturity and more like avoiding an uncomfortable reality.
I’m not asking you for an apology anymore.
I just wonder whether the values you spent years talking about still mean what I thought they meant.
Today, you had the opportunity to tell us.
You chose silence.
@bts_bighit@BTS_twt #방탄소년단
propaganda is so crazy because what do you mean you’re a group devoted to destroying the careers of actors who speaks out against genocide and you call yourself “creative communities for peace”
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
Mark Ruffalo responds to accusations of antisemitism for speaking out against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, the Ellison family, and their company Oracle:
“Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. […] This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. […] The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.”
Oracle executive vice chair Safra Catz previously said the company made its technology available to support the Israeli military, describing some of Oracle’s technology as “profoundly scary.”
Larry Ellison is the co-founder of Oracle, while his son, David Ellison, is the CEO of Paramount.
I'm sorry but if they are changing, I'm changing too, if money made them chase and please those morals and men they were against at first, I'm sorry @bts_bighit
Being a person who advocated feminist, queer and communist thoughts, the cola issue, the Zionist issue, all those stuff were never not disturbing but heartbreaking because I loved them all more than just 7 boys.