Kneecap - New Footage

these lads come across as not being the sharpest!

To all those wanting them to be cancelled. Explain to me, how or who else are supposed to defend Palestine? Are the population to sit there like ducks, waiting to be picked off by the IDF using American weaponry, while the whole world watches and does nothing? That's not me siding with Hamas or Hezbollah by the way, they're evil pricks, as much as the Israelis are, but these groupings are the only defender of Palestine in the middle east.

If anyone in the world defends their home against invasion and robbery, are they deemed a terrorist? The same can be said that if someone arms an innocent father in Gaza, who protects his innocent wife and children from Israel, are you going to classify them as terrorists?? Because that is what Western media and governments will do, and want you to believe that!!

The world is fooked, and the sooner we get hit by an asteroid, that finishes us, the better!

Ok, I get that. People say stupid things, but it's no worse than Trump saying he wants to level the place for a holiday destination, or Israel saying that everyone in Palestine are animals, and the place need to be 'mowed' … I don't see people wanting those sort of comments to be clarified or explained, not even from other world leaders

So the IDF genociding the Palestinians is bad, but an asteroid genociding all of humankind is good.

okey-dokey 👍️

The reason they are getting it tight is precisely because of their stance on Palestine. Nobody would be interested in finding their 'skeletons' if it was not for their stance on Palestine!

Trump has zero interest in the welfare of Palestinians, he has already expressed his desire for them to disappear off 'the Mediterranean Rivera'

”They will be constantly on the back foot. Trying to pivot to a broader discussion on genocide, while noble, rings a bit hollow because it was nothing to do with the fact they said "kill your mp" and just comes across as a deflection from their own actions”

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Exactly posters on here are doing very same thing. They can’t address the issue at hand. If one person who is radicalised/disturbed acts on Kneecap’s calls either for/against them. Will it be so funny then?
We recently saw how it can happen so easily when an Army Chaplin was attacked by a disturbed individual riled up by online messaging.

As for the “Rap game” itself how many rappers have been killed in gun violence because of the culture in America?

Kneecap really need to pull back. Or they are in danger at looking somber because of some deranged person viewed their statements as a call to arms.
Or worse for the band - Kneecap. They end up as a mural on a wall. Where they are made martyrs.
The Miami Showband were not even a controversial band during the troubles, and look what happened to them.

To paraphrase an old Provo line. Anyone targeting Kneecap will only have to be “lucky once”.

At the moment they are just playing performative gangsters looking edgy. It could easily turn nasty, one way or the other.

Only song I can think of that would stack up to a statement like "Kill a Tory MP" is "Cop Killer" by Ice-T's band Bodycount.

That is still getting banned from platforms today!

They have no piece of music stating 'Kill a Tory MP', it was a ludicrous shout out at a gig (although I have yet to see video footage of it).

I don't want them prosecuted because I'm strongly against these new hate speech laws. However it's funny seeing people who cheered such laws because "far right hate speech" defending these hateful scumbags. They don't even have the balls to own what they said, taken out of context my bollox

As an aside perhaps the reason they are so political and trying to generate controversy is the actual music is shite. Listened to a few of their songs, there's certainly less successful bands with way more talent

Don’t be giving Woke FC any ideas!

Cheering on two terrorist groups will draw attention onto yourself. You'd want to be sure there were no other skeletons lurking.

Are the videos in question where they "support Hamas" or suggest we kill MP's out for public consumption ?

Kinda weird the band trying to deny it if they are.

Spot on. When I think of it Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners. He said they just thought the Rebel Songs such as “The auld alarm clock” were funny.
But then saw the danger of people taking them literally in the 70’s. Drew hoped that they did not encourage others to violence. And even stopped playing some songs.

The impression I get from Kneecap they are all for violence, until it looks like they will get in trouble for saying so.
They are not as brave nor as principled, as they pretend to be. They are really just a Republican cliche, repackaged. With the novelty of “Rap Ceoil” as Gaeilge.