Coldplay fans boo as Chris Martin urges crowd to ‘send love’ to Charlie Kirk’s family
Coldplay fans boo as Chris Martin urges crowd to ‘send love’ to Charlie Kirk’s family
Curious how he doesn't send love to the families of children killed in the school shooting that very same day. What did they mean by that? Logically it can't be he's just sending out good feelings because of a tragic situation otherwise he would have mentioned the school shooting, so that means that Coldplay must specifically endorse Charlie Kirk and his rhetoric. That's The Logical conclusion I draw.
Kirk was a man full of hate. Why should I feel any obligation to send any love to him?
He was pro gun violence and anti empathy. It goes against everything he believed and stood for to send love. These jackasses pretending to care are just masturbating their own ego to make themselves come off as some paragon in divided times. Kirk died for what he believed in while doing what he loved. We should all be glad he did. Even those foolish enough to listen to him and support him should be able to see that.
Nuance: Martin's request concerned Kirk's family, not Charlie himself. Let's not stray from the facts. The other side does that enough.
For all we know, they might be lovely people (unlikely, but hey.)
Still, weird request, and I would have joined the booing in the moment, I think.
Well, his wife said that the movement didn't stop with his death and that "if you thought that my husband's mission was powerful before you have no idea, you have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country and this world" so probably safe to say she's a horrible, minority-bashing white nationalist as well.
Still, no one mentions the families of the kids murdered, why is he special? Why is his family special? Him and his hateful wife who are probably brain washing those children.
Honestly, hearing his views, they both seem much better off without him. ESPECIALLY if either of them are queer.
he spread and fomented hate, on impressionable college age students, to recruit them into the right wing manospheres. which is why conservative groups are trying to elevating him as some kind of saint.
Spite?
The fact that someones feelings don't care about his facts also is kinda funny.
oh my god, as someone who hated Coldplay with passion for a quarter century, I feel so vindicated. thank you.
Seriously, to think that for years I was wrong about why I hated fucking Coldplay. Only Coldplay could make me like Nickelback
I miss Never mind the Buzzcocks. Can someone reach out to Noel Fielding for a comment on this news?
All that goodwill(?) from the cheating CEO hilarity ruined by pandering to the cheer squad of some dickhead.
Sending love to his family? That sounds awfully like that New Age empathy shit, don't you know how much damage that causes?
Best I can do is sympathy, sending tots 'n pears.
People in the back.
Fuck Coldplay.
Why are Coldplay concerts suddenly this relevant?
Their new album, HotTakes, is wild
Go on...
Looks like the corporate rock fans are mad that their band is a corporate rock band
And i think thats a good thing. You should be free to like whatever kind of music, even if its the worst garbage imaginable to my ears.
Does not mean you have to accept political shit-takes from the creators.
His death helped the world see who's far right. Very interesting
I've never liked Coldplay, the singer always came off as douchy.
And now we have empirical confirmation.
I guess you don’t get to choose family, but not sure how this was a high priority for Chris Martin given everything else going on at the moment.
Unless you adopt.
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Sorry, are we linking propaganda?
On the face of it, I don't have an issue with saying this, as his family weren't the ones preaching hate. But choosing to single out this particular person's family rather than all the other recent shooting victims is a bad look.
Everyone grieves differently, but his wife literally turned around and used his corpse for Instagram content before he was even in the ground! Add it to the list of videos I wish I hadn’t watched this week
Plus that wonderful speech she gave about how her husbands death was a rallying cry to the right to take care of the libs, so, like fuck her too.
It's pretty much a given that anyone who would marry him must be an awful person.
It's cause Charlie Kirk was rich and famous; those kids and any other faceless poor has no value or meaning to these folks even though the only reason these fucks are rich and famous is because of the fucking faceless poor. I hate it here.
Partially, but it's also related to the fascism our country is under now. Prominent non-government people who are on the government's "side" are treated as if they actually are part of the government, because the corruption means they essentially are.
You have to remember also he is not American, and Charlie wasn’t hugely known outside of the US, and his death has received massive coverage
eww, he's normally chill, what happened
He’s such a tool
Hell no, Tool is awesome (as a band, i'm not so sure on their views).
He should be knowing first before making such statements pertaining to peace and coexistence. Especially if the subject matter happens to be an extremely vile personage with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Wow, if I didn't have a reason to not like them before, I sure as hell do now.
Whenever this happens I can't help feel like said public figure is literally just autopiloting sympathies. Like, 9 times out of 10, yes, that's the right thing to say but like, but c'mon.
I blame the fact that "liberal media" MSNBC is sympathetic to Kirk, and in the absence of critical thinking and, well, existence in online spaces, that's probably the go to response. Coldplay is mostly Gen X, ya? I've had to explain this situation to Gen Xers to not be surprised here.
As my gran used to say
If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all.
That's all cold play had to do
My point isn't about what they should do, I think anyone who knows what Kirk was really about would agree with you. My point is there's so much misinformation when from "trusted" sources that I'm not surprised even Coldplay didn't get the memo.
all the current media, are conservative owned, there never was a liberal media in the first place.
Leave Gen X out of this, will you?
No offense since Gen X and Boomers on Lemmy are inherently cool for being on the fediverse, but my Gen X father and Gen X coworkers have literally no idea who Kirk was prior to his death.
Their media consumption is still very old school, on average, and TV media is making him out to be some kind of motivational speaker. It's quite maddening.
So Coldplay sucking isn't just a meme...
Yeah I always wondered why they got hate, I guess I know.
Their older stuff was good, but after a few albums the music just sounds like generic pop.
Also the type of people that listen to Cold Play are either not that into politics, or definitely aren't Charlie Kirk fans. That venn diagram is just two separate circles.