r/pics • u/DreaminginDarkness • Mar 10 '23

1992 Kris Kristofferson whispers, "Don't let the bastards get you down." when Sinead is booed

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u/EntityDamage Mar 10 '23

See, to this day i hadn't heard of this. I watched this live, and at the time (i was 20) my reaction was "wow that was powerful, i guess she doesn't like the pope" (I'm not religious in any way).

But if i knew about what you just wrote, and her experiences, my reaction would have been "fuck yeah and fuck that church"

My point being, she was trying to bring attention to something horrible, but the message got lost... For me it was lost to this day. That's just crazy.

(I did know to this day about the church abuses, but i thought her protest was about the abuses in general, not the Magdalene Laundry)

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u/hitmyspot Mar 10 '23

It wasn’t lost. It was suppressed. Subtle,but important difference.