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Mumford & Sons Are Being Slammed Over A Photo With An Alt-Right Douchebag

"Looking forward to a folk-pop jam about maintaining a strict hierarchy."

by Jules LeFevre  3 August 2018
Mumford & Sons

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Mumford & Sons are being blasted by fans on social media after they were pictured with anti-feminist, alt-right dickhead, Jordan Peterson.

Peterson, whose charming ideas include the notion that women were never oppressed throughout history, that Islamaphobia is just a word used to “manipulate morons“, and white privilege is a “Marxist lie” — posted a picture on his Instagram showing him hanging out in the studio with the members of the band.

The photo was originally taken in May, but flew under the radar until it resurfaced on Twitter yesterday — where it has now been roundly slammed:

The band have yet to publicly respond to the backlash.

Peterson, a Canadian professor of clinical psychology, recently came under fire from just about everyone for promoting the idea of “enforced monogamy” as a way to prevent male violence.

“He was angry at God because women were rejecting him,” Mr. Peterson told the New York Times about Alek Minassian, the Toronto man who killed 10 people by driving a van down a busy street in April. “The cure for that is enforced monogamy. That’s actually why monogamy emerges.”

Violent attacks are what happens when men do not have partners, Peterson told the NYT, and society needs to work to make sure those men are married.

Which may be the most cooked idea a human has farted out in recent years.