Jack Black has said he’s cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked an outcry with a comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.The comedy rock group were on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Gass was asked to make a wish after being presented with a cake for his 64th birthday.He appeared to reply: "Don’t miss Trump next time."

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

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.