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Does club culture have a problem with bigotry? | Musique Non Stop

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Does club culture have a problem with bigotry?

Ten Walls, GFOTY and Boddika have all said hateful things of late – so are they isolated bigots or symptomatic of a wider intolerance?

After Lithuanian dance producer Ten Walls compared gay men to Irish paedophile priests in a sickening Facebook post last weekend, the dance community mobilised against him almost instantly. Five European festivals and his booking agency dropped him, artists from the Chemical Brothers to Tiga to Optimo all condemned him, and London’s Phonica record store boycotted his new release to the point where it refunded people who’d preordered them.

Related: Ten Walls apologises for online posts comparing homosexuals to paedophiles

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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian

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