Ethel Cain responds to criticism regarding her support for killing CEOs

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Ethel Cain has responded to criticism regarding her post which used the hashtag “KillMoreCEOs”.Earlier this month, the musician shared her thoughts on the high-profile murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson after he was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel in December.The killing led to a manhunt that lasted several days, with police eventually arresting Luigi Mangione, who was found carrying a three-page manifesto in which he criticised the American healthcare system.In response on January 10, Cain expressed frustration with the system and said that while she wasn’t being “reactionary”, violence was “sometimes” the answer. “It’s simple,” she wrote. “You make them fear for their lives and hit them in the only place they hurt or nothing will ever get done.” She signed off the Instagram post with the hashtag “KillMoreCEOs”.She was then met with a surge of backlash and criticism, mainly from conservatives and the right wing.

Fox News even called for a boycott of the musician because of her “terrorist” and “depraved” comments. “The message there is violence is the answer,” said Guy Benson on the American channel. “You know who used that exact same mentality, that type of language?

Terrorists. That is actual terrorism, what she’s talking about here … This should be a very clear black-and-white moral issue, and it is scary to see how much support that type of sentiment has gotten.”In a new post on Tumblr, Cain responds to the criticism she has faced for making comments.