Billie Eilish Says ‘F— Ice’ During Grammy Win: ‘No One Is Illegal on Stolen Land’
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Billie Eilish had choice words for ICE during her acceptance speech for song of the year.

Billie Eilish joined Bad Bunny in speaking out against ICE during her acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards, slamming the organization after winning song of the year for “Wildflower.”

The singer was bleeped as she said “fuck ICE,” giving strong commentary during the speech. “Thank you so much. I can’t believe this. Everyone else in this category is so amazing. I love you so much,” she said, standing next to her brother Finneas. “I feel so honored every time I get to be in this room. As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land. And, yeah, it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, and I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting, and our voices really do matter, and the people matter, and fuck ICE. That’s all I’m going to say. Sorry. Thank you so much.”

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
    23·
    7 days ago

    sorry, do the majority of celebs fly commercial and show up to protests?

    or do they just say crap at award shows to score points with little zero inconvenience or consequence to themselves?

    • HalfSalesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      or do they just say crap […] score points with little zero inconvenience or consequence to themselves?

      You just described the vast majority of people.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
        33·
        7 days ago

        i’m not disputing that. most people are armchair activists at best.

        and frankly, being an activist requires a certain mentality that most people don’t possess. it requires shutting off rational parts of your brain and giving yourself over to a belief. I gave up on activism myself because many activists are violent psychos and I want nothing to do with people like that. Everything is ‘peace and love’ until you mildly disagree with them, then you their enemy they must destroy. They are often the opposite of what they claim to be, and while some are cool, many are only in it for the feeling of moral superiority and ‘community’ they get from shitting one ‘bad people’ and lauding themselves as ‘good people’.

        Like I had people threaten me for not being pro bike lane enough, because apparently if I go to a bike lane rally, but I don’t think cars are evil and car drivers are evil, I’m evil. I can’t just be generally supportive of bike lanes, i have to be part of some crazy extremist agenda where own a car makes you hate gay people or something.