{"id":46344,"date":"2025-09-11T15:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/kane-brown-attacked-online-after-charlie-kirk-tribute\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:15:31","slug":"kane-brown-attacked-online-after-charlie-kirk-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/kane-brown-attacked-online-after-charlie-kirk-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane Brown Attacked Online After Charlie Kirk Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/kane-brown\" target=\"_blank\">Kane Brown<\/a> drew heated criticism\u00a0\u2014 from both sides of the political aisle\u00a0\u2014 after sharing a tribute to the <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/charlie-kirk-dead-dies-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\">late conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> on social media on Wednesday (Sept. 10).<\/p>\n<p>The comments against him got so aggressive, he says it&#8217;ll be a while before he posts again.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/charlie-kirk-dead-dies-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Country Music Mourns Charlie Kirk After Fatal Utah Shooting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brown shared screenshots of some of the messages he received, both in response to his words about Kirk&#8217;s death and in response to a tribute Brown shared about a high school mass shooting in Colorado, which took place the same day that Kirk was fatally shot during a speaking event at a Utah university.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you post about the Democratic representatives being murdered?!!!!&#8221; one presumably left-leaning fan replied.<\/p>\n<div class=\"branded-app-shortcode-inarticle\">\n<div class=\"logo-wrap\" rel=\"fwef\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That commenter is presumably referring to the June 2025 murders of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman, who were fatally shot in their home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Kane Brown Charlie Kirk<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Kane Brown, Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>But another fan was angry for a reason that fell on the opposite end of the political spectrum: They were upset that Brown expressed any form of empathy to a Democratic perspective at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stand up don&#8217;t be silent and bow down to those liberal POS that are joyful [a] father died!!! You have a huge platform use it!&#8221; that fan told him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Kane Brown<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Kane Brown, Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another comment affected Brown so strongly that he responded.<\/p>\n<p>That person said that, by paying tribute to Kirk, Brown had &#8220;offended [his] ancestors&#8221; as a Black man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a racist bigot who didn&#8217;t believe in gun regulations,&#8221; the fan said, referring to Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been called a n&#8212;-r my whole life. I don&#8217;t want those people dead,&#8221; Brown shot back.<\/p>\n<p>It was during this last comment that Brown told his fans, &#8220;My last post for a while, be safe guys and love one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Kane Brown, Instagram<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Kane Brown, Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>How Did Charlie Kirk Die?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on Wednesday (Sept. 10) during an event at Utah Valley University. He was shot in the neck and hospitalized in critical condition before he died.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk was a conservative commentator and the founder of Turning Point USA. He was widely mourned in the U.S. and beyond, and U.S. president Donald Trump shared a statement in tribute to him.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday morning (Sept. 11), a wide-scale manhunt is underway for the shooter who killed Kirk, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/charlie-kirk-shot-utah-09-10-25\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>. Multiple &#8220;persons of interests&#8221; in the case have been questioned and released.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What Did Kane Brown Say About Charlie Kirk?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>From the posts and replies on Brown&#8217;s social media, he seems to have deleted the original tribute, but he did share a snippet of an Instagram Live video to his permanent feed.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Brown was visibly upset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been crying for two hours,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day dude, I just want everybody to love each other&#8230;left side, right side, Black, white, different language speaking, different country living, just love each other. If you see somebody down, just pick &#8217;em up,&#8221; he said elsewhere in the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m just getting mad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t talk about this s&#8211;t. I don&#8217;t do politics. That&#8217;s not for me. I just want y&#8217;all to love each other, bro. It&#8217;s really not that hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He ended the clip with a message of love, and a call to all his followers to show love to everyone in their lives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">Country Stars Who Have Died in 2025<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>We&#8217;re not even six months into 2025, and already country music has suffered some devastating losses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/sterlingwit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sterling Whitaker<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=70&#038;gver=6&#038;bid=204&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DGbJ4PR9JZzdxdLXzJnfIG9ZgkXSFQNevIcIY&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/kane-brown-charlie-kirk-backlash\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kane Brown drew heated criticism\u00a0\u2014 from both sides of the political aisle\u00a0\u2014 after sharing a tribute to the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}