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In light of a new Polish report claiming child abuse cover ups by the pope…


In light of a new Polish report claiming child abuse cover ups by the pope…



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  • Top-Manner7261

    She was cancelled for her beliefs and standing up to the church. Cancel culture the right whines about today. Such hypocrisy Bwahaha

  • carlylewithay

    I thought it was Sinatra that said he’d like to kick her ass and her response was it wouldn’t be the first time he hit a woman.

  • RyansBooze

    Watched it live. Agreed with her then and now. And I would have smacked some fucking sense into that sawed off runt Pesci if given the chance.

  • CmdrSelfEvident

    To be clear she was commenting on the abuses in Ireland and the cover up there. But it seems the organization was rotten in how it dealt with any abuse. Trying to protect the church first, second and third.

  • banksy_h8r

    And she’s still out there ~~telling the truth~~*:

    > If you remember two things about her, it’s that she vaulted to fame with that enduring close-up in the video for her version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” — and then, that she stared down a “Saturday Night Live” camera, tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II and killed her career.

    > But O’Connor doesn’t see it that way. In fact, the opposite feels true. Now she has written a memoir, “Rememberings,” that recasts the story from her perspective. **“I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career,” she writes, “and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.”**

    > O’Connor saw herself as a protest-singing punk. When she ascended to the top of the pop charts, she was trapped. “The media was making me out to be crazy because I wasn’t acting like a pop star was supposed to act,” she told me. “It seems to me that being a pop star is almost like being in a type of prison. You have to be a good girl.” And that’s just not Sinead O’Connor.

    [source](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html)

    Edit: I spoke too soon. She converted to Islam in 2018, writing on Twitter

    > “What I’m about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that’s what non-muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting.”

    So, yeah. She might’ve been brave and telling truth to power at one time, or maybe she was just vehemently contrarian and happened to be on the right side of history, but she’s a idiot now.

  • Desperate-Ad-6463

    I was on set that night working and we were all just as surprised as everyone else.

    It wasn’t publicly planned. She didn’t do it during the 7:30 dress rehearsal.

    The song was amazing. Prince wrote it. (Nothing compares … 2 U)

  • Emotional_Dot4968

    Sinead O’Connor is a flawed, gifted person who has a lot more guts than most of us.
    I am glad to have been old enough to remember seeing this and the aftermath at the Dylan concert as it happened. It is part of the core curriculum in our children’s upbringing. We need more of this.

  • SteveJobsBlakSweater

    Fucking legend. She knew she would get blacklisted but she has principles. History will respect her way more than that asshole in the photo.

  • Generically_Yours

    She’s always been a woman who fought for her values. She’s a great singer too, but she’s revolutionary saying the hard thing. When her and Amanda Palmer, I think it was, got into it over the wrecking ball Cyrus thing i saw how tired she was because she was holding it together for a long time without support, and didn’t know how to do it for another woman. (Forgive her for that, think about it)

    Amanda Palmer was the visionary that came from the revolutionary, and called her out, but I sorta looked at the whole thing as something to learn from. But look at what Oconner fucking carried us from! She took the backlash all those years. I knew a Catholic nun who left serving the church for 40 years because the sex abuse was obvious to her, so…just listen and not judge so hard, and see a warrior of real righteousness of the real thing for what they are.

  • ShinMegamiTensei_SJ

    People need to stop pretending catholicism will get better with a new pope. It is the biggest pedophile protection organization and likely always will be

  • puzzledgoal

    Sinéad is a legend.

    For some context, as a kid she spent time with elderly women in a Magdalene Laundry, where Irish women were kept prisoner by nuns and forced to work unpaid in awful conditions for the rest of their lives until they died alone, and were then buried in unmarked graves.

    This is one example of the physical, emotional and sexual abuse the Catholic Church dished out in Ireland for generations.

    This is not to even mention general abuse, the industrial schools, the mother and baby homes (more unmarked graves), their grip on Irish society, government and the education system, their cooperation in stamping out the Irish language, their destruction of ancient Irish traditions and beliefs.

    The shame, depression and widespread suicides of abuse victims. The intergenerational trauma. They caused as much harm as colonisation.

    So, fuck the Catholic Church and their systemic covering-up of abuse and sheltering of predators.

    Respect to Sinéad for her courage, integrity and spirit.

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