Soprano Anna Netrebko withdrew from her future engagements at the Metropolitan Opera rather than repudiate her support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, costing the company one of its top singers and best box-office draws....
But all that aside, Anna Netrebko has one of the greatest soprano voices of the past century, and as she’s got older, it has only got better. Forcing her to quit engagements simply because she “refused to repudiate her support for Russian President Vladimir Putin” is clearly a bad thing.
Let’s be clear, here, and remember exactly who we’re dealing with: regardless of her actual sympathies, if she were to come out and say, “This asshole Putin should quit invading Ukraine”, not only would her career end, but there is a good chance that she would be assassinated by the loathsome Unit 29155 for her opinions.
Think I’m exaggerating? Try this, and this, and this. Note that none of this took place in Russia: nowhere in the world is safe when it comes to this criminality.
We should quit being childish about this — it’s not the first time, either; remember “freedom fries”, FFS? — and while I have no issue with punishing teams or people actually representing Russia, let’s not take out the sins of the country on its innocent citizens, cursed simply by an accident of birth.
Don't always agree with Kim, but on this I do.
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