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I agree.

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In Reply to: RE: On the other hand, posted by rbolaw on April 07, 2015 at 12:25:52

I'm all for free speech and don't want my *government* curtailing it. But this is about a private organization making what's probably a combination of a biz decision and moral stand. I presume if Toronto knew about the tweets when they booked her they had second thoughts due to pressure from their audience base and/or decided they just didn't want the orchestra to be associated in any way with the views expressed in her tweets.

The artist in question in this case is free to continue her tweeting in Canada and elsewhere. Nobody is muzzling her. But IMO she has no inherent right to expect that expressing her political views will be necessarily completely free of business consequences.

If a company receives a lotta negative backlash regarding a particular ad they place on tv they pull the ad, sometimes apologizing for producing it in the first place. Would anybody here post to berate the Village Vanguard if their management cancelled a performance because they didn't want the club associated in any way with an artist who they discovered had repeatedly tweeted racist views?

Somehow I doubt she'd perform with a Ukranian-American conductor who had repeatedly tweeted his view that Russia is perpetrating a policy of blatant lies, thuggery, ethnic cleansing, territorial thievery and Putin was akin to Hitler. Would all those who berated Toronto's orchestra post to excoriate her for cancelling that booking?

Unlike what happens to artists like Pussy Riot in Russia, the Canadians aren't holding a bogus trial for her and putting her in prison. Hmm, wonder if she cancelled any performances in Russia to protest that.

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