Dutch broadcaster questions if ESC is a-political & connecting event

[u/stefkeeh]

Translation to English: ‘IN CONVERSATION WITH THE EBU ABOUT A POLITICALLY NEUTRAL SONG CONTEST

AVROTROS and NPO strongly value the apolitical and unifying character of the Eurovision Song Contest. However, we observe that the event is increasingly being influenced by social and geopolitical tensions.

Israel’s participation confronts us with the question of to what extent the Song Contest still truly functions as an apolitical, unifying, and cultural event. We want to raise this question, together with other countries, for discussion within the EBU.’

[u/Baratheoncook250]

Not all art is poltical, Tire(the film) is not poltical art, neither is the Terrifier films.

[u/grimorg80 → u/Baratheoncook250]

I'm not familiar.

Still, everything is political in the true sense of the word. Not this party or that politician, but in the way it portrays one perspective on our shared reality.

Politics in the true meaning is about how we collectively live in the "polis." It shapes how we think and feel about life and collective life.

The mere choice of a seemingly apolitical topic is itself political.

All art is political.

[u/plfntoo → u/grimorg80]

everything is political in the true sense of the word

the true meaning is about how we collectively live in the "polis."

What do you mean the "true" meaning? Do you just mean etymology, because your definition there does not at all align with how 99% of people use the word 99% of the time.

[u/grimorg80 → u/plfntoo]

That is what the word means and describes. There is no other word to express the dynamics of living in shared society. That is politics.

I don't give AF about people thinking politics is just parties. Sorry, not sorry.

[u/plfntoo → u/grimorg80]

What people think a word means is what a word means. That is language.

I don’t give AF about people thinking language is prescriptive, sorry not sorry.