ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1blwbq wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:28 AM

Reply to comment by boneman429 in The Band Aid song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is offensive, and that was before I saw the cover art 🤨 by ASecularBuddhist

Well, when they did a remake of the song, the producers made a judgment on this lyric, and got rid of it: “Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you.”

boneman429 t1_j1bo694 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:46 AM

I totally agree: almost everyone will cringe looking at the artwork and the lyrics these days. The peril of simply judging it is that is usually the end of the thinking e.g. I am better than ‘those people’. Not ragging on you I do it too. Let’s take it a little further: very few batted an eye at this when it came out. Why is that? What has changed? Does that mean we really are better? Maybe so; and we should be. We potentially know everything they knew, plus everything that has happened since. Anyway thanks for pointing it out. Gave me an opportunity to think apout it. Cheers

ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1bq7vw wrote on December 23, 2022 at 3:02 AM

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to point out something inappropriate without feeling like I am better than somebody