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My first thought is What if it was a flag representing some group I disagreed with? How would I feel then. If your support changes based on which flag then your support isn’t valid. Now if he had gone out on the street right after the performance and waved his flag as viewers were leaving the property, I’d say he every right and MGMT could fuck off. But on the stage at the end of the performance, it wasn’t his right to do so.
There’s no gray area here.
He’s opportunistically hijacking the platform that is the opera company’s viewership.
He, alone, had no right to this platform and the company is well within their rights to remove him.
As a thought exercise, (and I can scarcely believe this needs to be said) imagine he came out waving an Israeli flag.
If that last sentence got any of this crowd irritated, we might admit what this instance did for the operators of the opera company.
My first thought is What if it was a flag representing some group I disagreed with? How would I feel then. If your support changes based on which flag then your support isn’t valid. Now if he had gone out on the street right after the performance and waved his flag as viewers were leaving the property, I’d say he every right and MGMT could fuck off. But on the stage at the end of the performance, it wasn’t his right to do so.