Seems like our youth are not allowed to take part in any event without signing up to far-left indoctrination first. Our largest international music event, the Sziget Festival, is no exception.
Wish to take part in environmental activities because you care for nature? Planting a few trees will now come packaged with climate alarmism and apocalyptic green-deal dogmas. Care for human rights? Comes with a bunch of anti-Western, anti-white ideology if you want to gain membership to the “empathy-pack.” Want to protect sexual minorities from discrimination? Bow before an extreme trans- and LGBTQ ideology for starters. Or would you like to attend a music festival? We only offer the kind with flags of various victim groups and Islamist propaganda.
The organizers of the annual Sziget Festival taking place in August in Budapest, thought it would be a fabulous opportunity to invite a bunch of singing-dancing, attention-seeking political extremists spewing political hate from the podium.
They understood the chances of the Hungarian authorities banning this pitiful hate-show pretty well, but they would not have missed a chance to show just how “bigoted” the Hungarian Government of Viktor Orbán is in front of thousands of young Hungarians and international guests.
The good old lads from Ireland named Kneecap, have managed to become so toxic with their completely unhinged political statements that they are now being cancelled by festival organizers all over Europe. Yet the organizers have still thought it wise to invite the far-left provocators to perform in Budapest.
So let us just see what all the fuss is about. In November 2023, a band member reportedly said, “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.” Of course they did not mean this to cause any harm to anyone, and claimed the remarks were taken out of context as part of a “smear campaign.” In November 2024, in London, one of the band’s members shouted “Up Hamas, up Hezbollah,” while draped in a Hezbollah flag. And yet again they claimed that the footage from the concert was “deliberately taken out of context.” The poor old lads have been victimized solely because they care for the Palestinian people. Or so they claimed.
One wonders what context is a right context to call for the murder of conservative politicians, or in the case of the British Tories, faux-conservative ones. Nevertheless, the Hungarian authorities have promptly banned the darlings of the far-left activist scene from entering the country. Given that Jews in our country still enjoy peace, security, and freedoms that their Western European counterparts can now only dream of, someone in the government has also rightly concluded that it would be unwise to allow Hamas and Hezbollah sympathizers to inject their political poison in the minds of young and impressionable festival-goers.
After learning about the ban, the music festival’s organizers promptly issued a statement complaining about the “unprecedented” decision of the Hungarian Government to deny the band entry into Hungary, even though such a precedent does exist, given the innumerable cancellations of the self-appointed Palestinian activists’ gigs. Apparently the managers of Sziget have been reassured that no actions or statements will be made by the band in violation of Hungarian laws. Right… The owners of Sziget know darn well that if the band came on stage wrapped in a flag that has long been hijacked by the global red-green (marxist-Islamist) alliance for the purposes of spreading Islamist, anti-Christian, anti-Western hate, sending an unequivocal “up yours” to the Orbán government, the kids would predictably erupt in cheers to the satisfaction of their behind-the-scene political backers.
In fact, the festival organizers’ press statement complaining about Kneecap’s ban reads like one drafted well-in advance by an off-the-shelf Hungarian opposition activist who has just cashed in his very last USAID check. They complain about “cancel culture” while pretending to stand up for hate-speech, and called the ban a “cultural boycott.” Oh, and best of all, they are convinced that banning a bunch of Palestinian flag-wrapped, singing, intellectual basket-cases will affect Hungary’s international reputation negatively.
One would think these people are an assembly of morally agnostic political morons who do not understand that legitimizing violent political rhetoric and glorifying murderous extremist paramilitary groups in front of young kids is a fairly dangerous thing to do. But one would be very mistaken. Just check the international media headlines to see what the real purpose of the entire undertaking was: “Kneecap say Hungary ban an attempt to ‘silence’ pro-Palestine voices”; “Viktor Orban bans Kneecap from Hungary”; “Kneecap say festival ban is a political distraction”; “Hungary is an independent, sovereign colony”; “Banning Kneecap will affect Hungary’s international reputation negatively.” Job done. Who cares about the music.
One can only assume that rapper Bob Vylan, who recently chanted “death to the IDF” (Israeli Defense Forces) from the stage in Glastonbury, was not available for the Sziget Fesztival. But one really wonders about the other performers.
Are they ok to be used as pawns in this game of neo-marxist counter-culture wrapped in a worn-out human-rights cloak?
Just like during the recent Pride Parade, where we watched a hundred thousand anti-family, anti-government activists exploit the concept of sexual rights for their own manipulative purposes. Is this the musical version of a similar fake human rights activism? Is it acceptable to exploit the genuine plight of the Palestinian people for publicity and far-left virtue signalling purposes, and for the entertainment of bored middle-class kids? It is ok to dislike Orbán and the rest of the European right-wing scene and make your concerns heard, but is it necessary to lure kids wanting to have some fun and dance to good music to such a nihilistic, progressive honey-trap laced with support for Islamist death cults?
Well, if we must have politics wrapped in music, then here is one from better times: “Leave them kids alone!”
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