‘It’s not a political thing’ Grammy-winning singer said on stage

Kacey Musgraves is facing backlash from some fans after she showed support for immigrant families during a birthday performance.

The Grammy-winning country singer celebrated her 38th birthday on Friday by marking the opening night of her Middle of Nowhere tour in Chicago. At one point during the performance, she paused the show and urged the audience to donate to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights as her “birthday wish.”

“It’s a wonderful organization, and they help give aid — legal aid — and money to children whose parents have been deported unfairly,” Musgraves said on stage. “It’s not a political thing. It’s just, these kids need help.”

She continued: “They have no guidance and no way to get through this thing without their home base or their parents. So anyway, 50 cents, whatever the hell, I don’t know, whatever you want to do, but that would mean a lot to me. If you don’t want to, that’s totally fine too.”

The plea was met with applause and cheers from her crowd at the United Center. However, once videos of the moment started circulating online, conservative political commentators were quick to unleash their wrath on the “Follow Your Arrow” singer.

  • Sibshops@feddit.cl
    1771·
    2 days ago

    “Otherizing” fellow human beings is like a basic tenant of facisim. As soon as you feel that all people deserve basic happiness the right will attack you.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      244·
      6 hours ago

      Humans are animals forced to fight for every scrap of dignity from a horde of fellow creatures with the bodies of men and the souls of insects. The idea that you have anything besides flesh and blood in common with the zombie MAGAts overrunning this planet is dangerously naive.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
        42·
        23 hours ago

        The idea that you have anything besides flesh and blood in common with the zombie MAGAts overrunning this planet is dangerously naive.

        This is exactly the kind of othering he was just fucking talking about! Like seriously, do you hear yourself? It’s literally dehumanizing language. You can’t fight bigotry by out-bigoting everyone else.

        Anyway, I don’t want to see it in my communities, it’s deeply unhelpful.

          • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
            31·
            16 hours ago

            Nazis are evil, by definition of their basic ideology being evil.

            That still doesn’t change that they are 100 % human. They aren’t some kind of monsters that need eradication. They are humans, which need to be stopped by lethal force if necessary from enacting their plans to eradicate others. But they are and always will be part of humanity, even if a very evil part, that the rest of us doesn’t want to be compared to.