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Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building (apnews.com)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday fiercely criticized a musician’s sudden decision to cancel a Christmas Eve performance at the venue days after the White House announced that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility.

“Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” the venue’s president, Richard Grenell, wrote in a letter to musician Chuck Redd that was shared with The Associated Press.

In the letter, Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages “for this political stunt.”

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is what's been so frustrating to me is that news outlets that nominally disagree with fascism and Trump in general don't put things into their wider context and just focus on the minutia of the particular story to the exclusion of The wider reality. I call this sane-washing.

One particular example more or less related to this is when NPR said something to the effect of stopping focusing on Tylenol and instead focus on other causes of autism, as if Tylenol was a cause of autism.

Even they seem to be falling prey. They have lost control of the language.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

News outlets fear any legal action from Trump. He will sue for 10 billion, but settle for 10 million....less than it would coat to fight the lawsuit in the first place.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

Excellent point. 🎶Land of the freeeeee....🎶

Ugh.