“An astonishing endorsement of fascism”, a person tweeted in response. “Shame, I really liked that song a while ago.”
“I may be naive, but ‘Mumford & Sons banjo player comes out as a Nazi’ was not a headline I predicted …”, other shared.
You added a: “This is very disappointing and really reinforces all the bad stereotypes about what it means when you hear ‘the sound of banjos’. Supporting fascism is not looking good.”
Since Marshall’s tweet, some have responded to older messages on the British folk rock band’s official social media accounts, asking the group to remove him from his line-up and pointing out the potential consequences his tweet could have on Mumford & Sons.
“Unless you kick @winstonmarshall out of the band, I’m sick of you,” insisted a fan on the band’s Instagram account.
“Your banjo player is a fascist. What do you think this will do to your public image? You blew it. You fire the fascist,” required a Twitter user.
“Mumford and sons are about to see a huge loss of revenue because of Winston’s insane right-wing conspiracy visions,” noticed another. “Americans do not want to hear the opinions of an uneducated conspiracy theorist and we are not going to support that.”
Advertising panel contacted Mumford & Sons for comment.
For one Los Angeles Times February criticism, Ngo in his book downplayed the murders of Heather Heyer (killed while protesting against a white nationalist rally in 2017) and the teenager Trayvon Martin (killed by George Zimmerman in 2012); called Proud Boys – which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a hate group – simply a “pro-Trump fraternity”; and described the January 6 uprising on the United States Capitol – which took the lives of five people – a “peaceful and commemorative” meeting. THE LA Times he called the tome of demonizing the anti-fascist movement “supremely dishonest”.