The UK government moved fast. Home Office pulled the ETA, Wireless cancelled, the Prime Minister issued a statement. The right call. It is also worth asking why the machinery moved this fast now, and not in 2018, when Kanye West told Black people their ancestors chose their own enslavement — or when he said he felt “used and dirty” after sleeping with Black women.
Those concerts went on. Those Yeezy deals stayed intact. Nobody pulled an ETA. The industry shrugged and counted the ticket sales. Both are deplorable. We see which one gets treated that way.