At least once, and you must not be paying close attention then. Trumps fascism is regularly denounced, denigrated, and mocked all over here.

He's in a position of leadership at a national organization bearing the name of the country doing the genocide. And it's too much to find out what he thinks about it before allowing him to perform at an event they themselves organized?

That's a bullshit argument - this story is about one guy, and your attempts to generalize it into something that applies to everyone are dishonest.

All of this protracted benefit of the doubt you're giving him, this moralizing, bleating "but he might be secretly a good person!" - why?

Your answer doesn't matter. I know why, and the rest of us do too. Goodbye.

This habit of asking questions that you incorrectly believe have obvious "gotcha" answers, and which don't really relate that closely to the issue at hand...really not providing the rhetorical weight you're hoping for.

The folks running that festival have every right to curate who they invite to perform. That really has nothing to do with what I choose to consume, but yes, I do consider the people behind whatever entertainment I might want to enjoy, as well as where I'm willing to shop. We all should, to whatever degree we can manage. Stupid question.

Finally - these folks are in the business of hosting musical performances, that's the thing they are there to do, and cancelling one is precisely the opposite of their business model. You understand that right? Don't you think ANYONE in that position would reach out to the guy and give him the chance to clarify? Don't you think they did exactly that, and ended up discovering he's probably a fuckin Zionist?

Anyway, your arguments are too bad to continue to rebut. See ya later.