“I’ve already felt that beginning.”īut to speak out would “inevitably” bring his bandmates more trouble, a consequence Marshall said his “love, loyalty, and accountability to them cannot permit.” “I could remain and continue to self-censor but it will erode my sense of integrity. Quoting Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s essay titled “Live Not By Lies,” the musician said he decided to leave the band because he couldn’t continue self-censoring. “I also feel that my previous apology in a small way participates in the lie that such extremism does not exist, or worse, is a force for good.” “The truth is that reporting on extremism at the great risk of endangering oneself is unquestionably brave,” Marcus continued. “The truth is that my commenting on a book that documents the extreme Far-Left and their activities is in no way an endorsement of the equally repugnant Far-Right,” he wrote. Labelling himself as fluttering “between ‘centrist,’ ‘liberal,’ or the more honest ‘bit this, bit that,'” Marshall stood by him first tweet after reflecting. Marshall said he continued to be mobbed on Twitter, this time from both sides, for the “sin of apologising” as well as being “right-wing.” He made an apology over his tweet, partly to protect his bandmates, partly due to the fact that maybe he “did not know something about the author or his work.” Marshall said his bandmates invited him to stay on despite the pressure to nix him. Unintentionally, I had pulled them into a divisive and totemic issue.” “The distress brought to them and their families that weekend I regret very much. That name was being dragged through some pretty ugly accusations, as a result of my tweet,” Marshall wrote. Furthermore it’s our singer’s name on the tin. “Despite being four individuals we were, in the eyes of the public, a unity. Marshall said that posting about books had been a theme of his social media throughout the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, but the tweet he believed to be “as innocuous as the others” attracted “tens of thousands of angry retweets and comments” within 24 hours, and his bandmates and their families also become targets of attack. M, B & T,” the trio wrote on Twitter.Īfter reading Ngo’s book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy in March, Marshall wrote to Ngo in a Twitter comment, congratulating the author for his “important book” and being “a brave man.” “We wish you all the best for the future, Win, and we love you man. Writing in a blog on Medium, the 33-year-old musician said he decided to leave his beloved band so he could speak freely without affecting his friends and bandmates Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, and Ted Dwane, who wished him well after his announcement. The decision comes after Marshall was embroiled in a Twitter storm over his comment on a book by U.S. British banjo player Winston Marshall announced on Thursday that he’s leaving the folk-rock band Mumford & Sons.
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