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[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 83 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

Here's what they cancelled him for:

for piano

duration: 5'00"

2024

for Jayson Gillham

dedicated to the journalists of Gaza

I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, Traditional Custodians of the lands where I live, work, and create – lands on which First Nations communities have been creating and sharing music, art and culture for thousands of generations. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and I recognise the vital ongoing contributions First Nations communities continue to make on our music and arts scenes. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

I also acknowledge all Indigenous Peoples worldwide, their continued fight for freedom from settler-colonialism and occupation, and recognise the interconnectedness of these, all struggles for justice and work towards a world free from oppression for all everyone.

He didn't even dedicate it to journalists killed, just journalists. The headline is bullshit.

He never mentioned Israel.

EDIT: It just occurred to me that he wasn't canceled for dedicating it to the journalists of Gaza. He was cancelled for calling Aboriginal people victims of settler-colonialism in Australia, which is objectively true...

[–] EurekaStockade@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah it wouldn't be that, those sorts of land acknowledgements are very common in Melbourne, especially in the Arts, that would have been perceived as utterly uncontroversial by the MSO

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Land acknowledgements devoid of teeth are common, where someone flaccidly admits that Indigenous people exist and have some unspecified connection to the land, not where someone actually states out loud the crimes that put their opera house on that land.

~~This was a good acknowledgement that actually implicates the current ruling class. That's why they cancelled him.~~

Edit: he actually went on to say more, but I stand by the fact that this wasnt just a standard acknowledgement.

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