Brickbat: Songs of Protest

An Iranian court has sentenced rapper Toomaj Salehi to death after finding him guilty of "corruption on Earth." Salehi has been arrested multiple times for his songs about the government's corruption and stifling of dissent.

Comments

[JeremyR]

Won't see college kids protest about him. Or the Kurds. Or Uighurs. Or Sudan.

[mad.casual]

Does the fact that he's in a brickbat mean we aren't going to get as many articles from Reason/FIRE about his QI trial against the podunk cops who arrested him for a couple hours when he voluntarily came in like Priscilla Villarreal?

Or just nearly as many articles because, you know [glances around, puts up hand to side of mouth and whispers] rap music isn't journalism.

[Minadin]

Well, the good news is that those kids have now all been offered free ride scholarships to Iranian universities:

https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-news/university-of-tehran-professor-foad-izadi-says-us-college-protesters-would-support-iran/

[Vernon Depner]

In our country, we just let the rappers kill each other.

[Fist of Etiquette]

An Iranian brickbat? Now I've seen everything.

[Vernon Depner]

Everything about Iran is a brickbat.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Grand Ayatollah Bill O'Reilly approves.

(Outdated yes, but who doesn't love knocking a progenitor of cancel culture).

[TheReEncogitationer]

Iranian rapper goes on the crane, Iranian rapper hangs off the crane....Can't explain that!

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

"Iranian Rapper" was not on my bingo card for the day.

[TheReEncogitationer]

"Corruption on Earth?"

Where else could it happen with Islamofascists?

It's not like they could ever make it to the Moon, Planets, and Stars thinking that working in numbers is consorting with Al-Shaytan.

[Vernon Depner]

I suspect a bad translation.

[American Mongrel]

I look forward to your blistering critiques of Jainism and shendao, dawkins jr

Your knowledge of religion is surpassed only by your critical thinking skills.

[n00bdragon]

A protest?! Surely, this will get Iran to change its ways. Once the Ayatollahs realize that people around the world vigorously disapprove of them and their ways they'll have to give in! It's the only solution.

[Vernon Depner]

I expect that Iran will soon be getting megatons of disapproval from Israel.

[LIBtranslator]

God said it, Iranians believe it, that settles it! Just like "our" homegrown varietals of similar brood parasites.