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[-] can@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 months ago

Are you deliberately missing the point?

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

no, I'm disagreeing with it.

It's not the same thing as the NAACP at all.

It isn't some kind of organization dedicated to anti-cult endeavor, nor even a band dedicated to anything other than making music. That's it. That's the entirety of what linkin park is. They're an amazing fucking band that makes amazing fucking music.

Nothing about making music is predicated on the beliefs of the members unless they're making music about those beliefs, and even then it doesn't mean they have to do it all the time.

Are we going to flip out on Garth Brooks and Chance the rapper now? Both of them are openly supporters of a religion that has caused or condoned wars, genocide, and even today actively seek to crush the rights of other people. Christianity is just a big cult that demands loyalty and money and strict adherence to the rules of whichever sect of the cult you belong to, and nobody is up their ass for the actions of the rest of their religion.

Or is it only the cults we like that get a pass? Is that what it is? Sammy Davis Jr is cool, what with being a Satanist and jewish (at the same time, which is actually pretty damn cool), and Reba Macentire gets a pass because reasons, but not this woman that grew up in a cult we don't like as much?

It's bullshit. It's empty headed drek.

Now, if Armstrong gets up on stage and starts trying to convert people that didn't show up for that, that's a different issue. If she starts writing songs with LP that tear down what they've always claimed to believe, that's a different issue.

I simply do not give a fuck about what fiction a person believes in. It has nothing to do with the music unless they make it about that.

Anyone wanna tear Scientology down? Go for it! It's a giant scam as well as a cult. Tear down all of them as far as I'm concerned. Make it illegal, remove all non profit status from all of the brain washing cults that get called religion. But that's still a separate issue from some band making music.

It's the old art vs artist argument, only in this case, all the artist did was get raised in a disliked religion, and then take part in a truly fucking stupid show of support for a fellow church member. That's it. That's all she has done, unless there's something I'm missing that she's been accused of personally doing? Is there, was she actively involved in any of the bullshit the cult did? Did she know about it happening at the time at all?

It's a fucking nothing burger, and if anyone tried saying the same shit about someone that was wiccan, or muslim, or christian that did the exact same thing, it would be a shitstorm against the person trying to do so.

Shit, nobody can even point to her doing anything after she discovered the details of the shitstain to support him.

That's the fucking point, it's a witch hunt.

this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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