Fox News call for Ethel Cain “boycott” over singer’s “terrorist” and “depraved” comments calling for murder of CEOs

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Ethel Cain over her “terrorist” and “depraved” comments about the murder of CEOs.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.On January 10, Cain expressed similar 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”.Her comments have now become the subject of outrage on the US cable news network, with panellists on an edition of The Big Weekend Show describing her comments as “sick” and “depraved”, likening it to “terrorism” and calling on the public to “boycott” the singer (via Billboard).“The message there is violence is the answer,” said Guy Benson on the show. “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.”Cain’s original post included words from Secretary Of Labor Robert Reich which lambasted powerful collectives like the National Rifle Association, “Big Oil” and insurance companies who are able to “buy off Congress”.“Not even trying to be reactionary or “edgy” or say this shit for shock value, I.