Sack this revolting specimen

[visualnickmos]

This evil and nasty piece of work should be sacked.

http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Article/388636,tamar-iveri-outed-as-homophobe-on-eve-of-oa-performances.aspx

[Black Swan]

:ok:

[richardfinegold]

She's Georgian--perhaps related to Stalin?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

She's Georgian--

That's no excuse - so was Jane Austen!

Revolting woman (the singer, that is) - but I think sacking her would only enflame her paranoid vitriol. Rather let her colleagues show her exactly what they think of her and let the audience boycotts do the rest.

[Flosshilde]

Perhaps a performer boycott, or stage crew. She'd look pretty silly standing alone on a bare stage with no orchestra in the pit.

[visualnickmos]

That's no excuse - so was Jane Austen!

Revolting woman (the singer, that is) - but I think sacking her would only enflame her paranoid vitriol. Rather let her colleagues show her exactly what they think of her and let the audience boycotts do the rest.

I can't imagine that any opera house staff will even want to work with her in the first place. Who would want to work alongside a 'colleague' who holds such vile, disgusting and hateful views. This kind of thing sickens me, basically.

[visualnickmos]

Perhaps a performer boycott, or stage crew. She'd look pretty silly standing alone on a bare stage with no orchestra in the pit.

Well - she's now not exactly a box office drawer, that's for sure. Hopefully they won't even touch her with a barge-pole.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well - she's now not exactly a box office drawer, that's for sure. Hopefully they won't even touch her with a barge-pole.

More a pants drawer....

[Beef Oven!]

More a pants drawer....

Bottom-drawer, I think.

[Roehre]

...... vile, disgusting and hateful views. This kind of thing sickens me, basically.

makes two/many of us :ok:

[PJPJ]

She's Georgian--perhaps related to Stalin?

My house is mock-Georgian. Some consider that a hate-crime against architecture.

I had to look at the visualnikmos' link very carefully before I convinced myself this wasn't a Daily Mash parody. I cannot quite believe people have these views and are happy to air them. To begin with I thought it surprising the Australian government didn't send a taxi to take her to the nearest airport, but agree with later opinions that this would make her and her kind feel like martyrs.

Best of luck to all forced to work with her.

[Mary Chambers]

I should think there'll be demonstrations and general trouble if she does appear - and it seems she's going to.

Can people be sacked for their opinions, even if they're appalling?

[Pianorak]

I think she might get her marching orders sooner rather than later. Fingers crossed.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/pressure-on-opera-australia-to-sack-soprano-over-homophobic-comments-20140620-zsgrj.html

[visualnickmos]

Can people be sacked for their opinions, even if they're appalling?

Would you have written that if it was racism that was the issue concerned here, and not homophobia?

[Petrushka]

Can people be sacked for their opinions, even if they're appalling?

A good question. In the great scheme of things the views of a Georgian opera singer (of whom I've never heard) wouldn't matter a jot and would in any case be forgotten in next to no time. Part of democratic society (such as our own) is that a pretty wide spectrum of opinion is tolerated no matter how abhorrent some of these views may be.

I'd consider it a slippery slope to sack people or deprive them of their livelihood for having a view on a given subject but we seem to be going increasingly down this route these days.

For the record, I find her views pretty revolting but she has the freedom to express them and the rest of us have the freedom to ignore them.