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Coldplay fans boo as Chris Martin urges crowd to ‘send love’ to Charlie Kirk’s family
(www.standard.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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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.
all the current media, are conservative owned, there never was a liberal media in the first place.
As my gran used to say
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.
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.