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Julan Casablancas, during a regular music interview, was quoted, "American Zionists get the benefits of white privileged people but talk like they are Black people during slavery.
Casablancas then said, "I mean, just for the people that are gonna be like, 'Hamas, October 7th', yes, bad, but you know, Native American rebellions didn't mean it was ok to do what we did. Slave rebellions that were violent didn't mean that slavery is not bad." And "You know, indoctrination is such a strong thing, we just want to be part of the tribe…But it is a sad fact, the brainwashing of people in general. You can't be mad because something was rammed down their throat, necessarily."
Massive amounts of social media posts criticizing him. Tons of criticizing comments, but lots of supportive/agreement comments also, but often lower down in the comments for some reason. The best comment out of those few I read was saying that tons of people were upset but none offered any counterpoint or argument to what Casablancas said.
Notably, a lot of the comments called him a 'creep' and 'creepy', like he had 'creepy views' on Zionism, which is the first time I read that word used in that kind of sentense. Seems to be bots/propaganda. Definitely a manipulative word to use in this situation. I've noted the word for years, but haven't seen it pop in manipulation campaigns, but maybe the manipulators discovered the word recently. It's a word like terroristic or, often, racist. It's power comes from its lack of specific definition and negative claim.
A lot pointed out, as a defense of being defensive [sic], that it was ok/right to be wary for reasons of safety because anti-jewish sentiment has gone up like 10x in the past year or something. Obviously, that's following attacks on Palestinians, in Lebanon, and in Iran. US is similarly getting negative feedback for its attacks in the Middle East and is facing significant political opposition/criticism and international popular criticism.