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In 1992, Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half during a performance on SNL in protest against generations of abuse toward children within the Catholic church.

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  • Marine_Mustang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And she was vilified for it. Ahead of her time.

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  • xuxebiko@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    She said "Fight the real enemy" while tearing up the pic.

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  • shellkr@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    She was ahead of her time and extremely strong. Doing the right thing was more important to her than money. RIP.

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  • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then she joined a cult based around venerating a pedophile prophet.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      30 years later, after some very public mental health struggles. She was a humanitarian with a big heart and a lot of courage. Don’t try a take away from a dead woman’s accomplishments because of personal choices toward the end of her life.

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      • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh no judging a person by… their actions.

        She died a hypocrite.

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    • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Jesus was a hippy, who whipped scammers at a temple. Mohommed raped a nine year old and was a warlord.

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      • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not interested in a game of whataboutism.

        She willingly joined a cult that worships a pedophile after calling out a cult for shielding pedophiles from justice.

        That’s as straight forward and in context as it gets.

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    • dtrain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Blocked my first user on Lemmy!

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    • DigitalWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      islam?

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  • rehabdoll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ireland got proper fucked by the church it seems. There was a “Behind the bastards” episode about it. Highly recommended if you want to get mad

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    • Aldrond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everywhere the Catholic church has ever been, it’s consistently fucked everyone over. It is a leviathan of abuse and harmful politics.

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  • watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember that…

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  • Ktheone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Joe pesci did a SNL special the following week after that where he threatened to beat the shit out of Sinead. Makes me lose much of the respect I had for the man.

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