MINUTES of a MONDAY #150 🥳

Marking 150 Mondays on the trot

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BRAIN Food: Inflaming in the Name of

“I have noticed the phenomenon occurring especially in debates over free speech, where some who generally rail in the fiercest terms against cancel culture will cynically set aside their ‘principles’ and demand that a political opponent who happens to have caused offence in some way suffer the most punitive sanction.

Such double standards have been on display in recent days amid the furore over the performance of poet and rapper Bobby Vylan – he who said something derogatory about his ‘Zionist’ former boss and chanted ‘Death to the IDF!’ – at the Glastonbury festival. Don’t misunderstand me: I think Vylan is an oaf, and I wouldn’t cross the road to see his brand of ‘art’ if you paid me. Neither do I agree with his stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict. But I found utterly dispiriting the calls for Vylan’s prosecution by some who in other circumstances would see themselves as the ultimate ‘free speech warriors’. Prosecuted?

For using the term ‘Zionist’ and calling for the destruction of a foreign army? If these utterances, unpleasant as they might be, are now the standard for ‘hate crime’ or ‘incitement’, we are on a very slippery slope.”

Paul Embery

on Inflammatory speech

SOUL Food:

“Love what you love & make no apologies.”

Tennnessee Williams

LOL:

Jimmy O Yang on 38 year-old Love:

APPENDIX:

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

Nelson Mandella

A.O.B.

That’s is for #150 my friend.

That’s 150 Mondays on the trot. I’m quite proud of that, so thank you for being part of it. Fear not, there’s plenty more where that came from next Monday and I hope you’ll come with me for the next 150.

And, as always, mind how you go out there & slán agus beannacht.

Niall