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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.
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?
Jack Black is a zionist. I should hope no one takes him seriously. At least he canceled his tour. Always nice when the trash takes itself out.