2023-11-22 05:30:16
It will have to be said once more: only ignorance, bad memory, political interest or maliciously twisted interpretation can lead to the conclusion that The Wall is a work celebrating Nazism.
Just listen to the album. Read the letters. Watch the Alan Parker movie. It is not so difficult to understand. Pink, on the verge of complete emotional collapse, becomes a messianic leader who wears SS-like clothing and calls for the persecution of Jews, blacks, drug addicts, before disappearing behind the wall of his own madness. As in the scenes that detail the oppression of the educational system, the toxicity of certain family ties and the horrors of war, there is nothing in this portrait that glorifies Nazism but quite the opposite. But perhaps there are those who need a cartoon to explain to them that one of Pink’s traumas is that his father died fighting the Nazis.
But no, it is not a lack of understanding. The tirades and actions that frame Roger Waters’ visit to the River Plate are the repetition of the same mechanics of fake news: starting from a false premise to annul a political adversary. The DAIA, which has already ruled that Waters is anti-Semitic and insults anyone who dares to discuss it, went beyond the issue of hotel reservations and tried to prevent the concerts in River through judicial means. In his view, anyone who thinks that responding to a terrorist attack with genocide is wrong – just to start talking – automatically becomes anti-Jewish. And it should be banned.
Thus, the Buenos Aires prosecutor Marcela Monti was present at the stadium to check that there were no “anti-Semitic expressions.” Aware that it is difficult to combat even such a blatant falsehood when there is a repeating chorus, Waters did not wear the uniform with the hammer bracelet this time in “In the Flesh?” and “Run Like Hell”, and it’s not a bad idea: maybe that will draw attention to the real content of This Is Not A Drill. A show with powerful political content, as announced by a message at the beginning: “If you are one of those who say you love Pink Floyd but Roger and politics bore you, you can go to hell, go to a bar right now.”
Roger Waters does not punish the Jews in his concert, as those who even talk regarding “a Star of David painted on the pig that flies over his shows” want to establish (another explanatory drawing: from Animals, Pink Floyd’s 1977 album, the pig It is the representation of savage capitalism, it never had any religious symbol printed). Waters punishes American presidents who love open bombing and covert operations in third world countries. In “The Powers That Be” parade people murdered for being women, for distributing pamphlets (Sophie Scholl, guillotined by the Nazis), for their religion (Anna Frank), for practicing journalism (the Palestinian Shireen Abu Akleh) or for their color skin, like the Argentine Lucas González. After “Run Like Hell” he shows the images leaked by soldier Chelsea Manning, the murder of two Archyde.com cameramen and eight other civilians from an American helicopter in Baghdad. Before “Two Suns in the Sunset” he tells his story with the Argentine journalist Gabriela Cociffi and the campaign carried out with her to identify fallen soldiers in the Malvinas (another cartoon: Roger Waters is English, and calls Margaret Thatcher a “war criminal” ). In “Sheep” he calls to resist capitalism, fascism, war. On “Another Brick in The Wall” he unleashes a thunderous chorus reminiscent of “We don’t need thought control.”
And yes, he also expressly calls for the genocide in Gaza to stop. Which is unforgivable in the eyes of those who are willing to justify everything.
Unfortunately, despite those who want to cover his mouth, the 75 thousand people who went to River did not encounter an anti-Semite, but rather an artist who for two hours linked his songs with a fervent defense of human rights for all. , without distinction of creed, nationality, gender, color. A musician who denounces the horror of cities devastated by bombs in all eras, present and past.
It is curious that Waters is the enemy and the anti-Semite in a country that tolerated without problems the statements of a person who vindicates a dictatorship whose torturers were especially cruel towards the Jews. Not only did he tolerate her, he voted for her and made her vice president. Since Waters left Pink’s uniform in the dressing room on Tuesday, some should look beyond the little fingers pointing at him and pay attention to the giant red words that flashed across the screens: “Resist Fascism.”
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