Watching the reaction to this leads me to believe people treat life as they do a video game. Thousands of lives are expendable, but people suddenly clutch pearls when it’s one of the people whose lives “matter.”
Would Jack Black have canceled the tour if someone defended one of the people committing genocide in Palestine or putting immigrants in cages and deporting them back to potentially destructive situations?
I really can’t muster the energy to care about someone like Trump or Biden when I’m seeing dead children in my feed every day.
“I don’t support violence.” Yes these people do, with their silence and complicity. It’s hypocrisy and double standards of the most disgusting kind.
I think the concern isn’t that Kyle said something offensive, but that what Kyle said puts a target on their backs. If you perform on stage in public, you don’t want your bandmate joking about assassinating people on stage in public, especially when an attempt actually occurs and there’s a large number of extremists interested in retribution.
So you’re saying Jack Black isn’t wishing Trump had lived, but rather that he’s a spineless coward who refuses to stand against fascism. Damn, I’ll try not to be like him.
You go say “assassinate people on stage if you don’t like them” to a crowd with more guns than people and where shootings are already a daily occurrence.
I’d not only be worried for me and my friend but for the people just standing in my audience as well. Remember the time some dude killed a lot of concert goers in Las Vegas i think from his hotel window? That’s a lot more than just risking your own live by saying that.
Watching the reaction to this leads me to believe people treat life as they do a video game. Thousands of lives are expendable, but people suddenly clutch pearls when it’s one of the people whose lives “matter.”
Would Jack Black have canceled the tour if someone defended one of the people committing genocide in Palestine or putting immigrants in cages and deporting them back to potentially destructive situations?
I really can’t muster the energy to care about someone like Trump or Biden when I’m seeing dead children in my feed every day.
“I don’t support violence.” Yes these people do, with their silence and complicity. It’s hypocrisy and double standards of the most disgusting kind.
Tl;dr I’ve lost respect for Jack Black
I think the concern isn’t that Kyle said something offensive, but that what Kyle said puts a target on their backs. If you perform on stage in public, you don’t want your bandmate joking about assassinating people on stage in public, especially when an attempt actually occurs and there’s a large number of extremists interested in retribution.
So you’re saying Jack Black isn’t wishing Trump had lived, but rather that he’s a spineless coward who refuses to stand against fascism. Damn, I’ll try not to be like him.
You go say “assassinate people on stage if you don’t like them” to a crowd with more guns than people and where shootings are already a daily occurrence.
I’d not only be worried for me and my friend but for the people just standing in my audience as well. Remember the time some dude killed a lot of concert goers in Las Vegas i think from his hotel window? That’s a lot more than just risking your own live by saying that.
Yeah, Tenacious D really has a reputation for holding truth to power, I can’t believe they would do this. Don’t they want to be taken seriously?