The incident with Franck that MtheGM goes on about may have happened the way he describes it, or it may not. He wasn't there, and at this length of time even if he had been a subjective report at this remove would be pretty irrelevant.

I do remember that the general apathy about this genocide was pretty upsetting, including some pretty repulsive 'jokes' about starving babies. An angry response to that kind of thing would have been very understandable.

This thread seems to have shifted around a bit. Jhnny J's original point was about how silly it is if people expect that a singer should have a position on any and every issue that comes up in the media. Pretty self evidently that kind of expectation is silly.

But that seems to have shifted into an argument about whether they. Should feel entitled to express strong opinions where they do have them, and how best that should be done. Along with the related question whether they should feel obliged to come out and own up to whatever views they might hold, whether they want to or not.

Basically it comes down to freedom of speech - which includes freedom of silence.