She said "Fight the real enemy" while tearing up the pic.
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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xuxebiko@kbin.social 11 months ago
shellkr@fedia.io 11 months ago
She was ahead of her time and extremely strong. Doing the right thing was more important to her than money. RIP.
Cypher@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Then she joined a cult based around venerating a pedophile prophet.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Cypher@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh no judging a person by… their actions.
She died a hypocrite.
orcrist@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s one description, but in context it’s misleading. If we wanted to talk about Christianity or Judaism we could look at the Bible and find shocking things there as well. And maybe we should. But that’s a totally different discussion from bad things that the Catholic Church did in the 1900s.
Blamemeta@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jesus was a hippy, who whipped scammers at a temple. Mohommed raped a nine year old and was a warlord.
Cypher@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
dtrain@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Blocked my first user on Lemmy!
DigitalWanderer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
islam?
rehabdoll@lemmy.world 11 months 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
Aldrond@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Everywhere the Catholic church has ever been, it’s consistently fucked everyone over. It is a leviathan of abuse and harmful politics.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I remember that…
Ktheone@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Marine_Mustang@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And she was vilified for it. Ahead of her time.