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Malaysia halts music festival after same-sex kiss by UK band The 1975
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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I will concede that probably they should not have even bothered playing in Malaysia at all. However, protesting garbage laws is the right thing to do. Slavery was legal in the U.S. at one point. It was illegal(even in the North, where slavery itself was banned) to help escaped slaves evade the authorities. What I'm saying here is, some laws don't deserve to be "respected". This is an evil law, one that should be mocked, scorned, and flaunted.
on the other hand: playing has highlighted the irrational response of Malaysia's government and regressive laws, so in the end i'd say it worked out pretty well
Artists United Against Apartheid didn't play gigs in South African to protest the situation there.
If they had, it would have been a degree of complicity with the regime.
TBH, every major artist should loudly express that they are deliberately skipping playing in Malaysia for specific reasons.