Macklemore endorses the Freedom Flotilla’s ‘Madleen’ on stage, playing a special video that Greta Thunberg recorded from the vessel. Keep all eyes on deck, and all eyes on #Palestine.
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Mackelmore has been making several songs about Palestine and calling attention to the genocide for the last year and a half (maybe more). I remember him from Thrift Shop and Same Love, and then I kinda just forgot about him, then he dropped Hind’s Hall 1 + 2, and Fucked Up. The guy is using his platform and influence for good when loads of other mainstream rappers stay silent.
Great Ally for sure…
Holy moly.
He’s the current generations Rage Against the Machine and someone deserving of such a title!
…he is? I’m genuinely asking because that’s a shocking statement and I’m actually curious. Rage was trying to literally start a revolution. Making a few political songs about a genocide is absolutely great, but I feel it does not a Rage make.
Macklemore? Huh. Can’t say id expected to see him in the news this week. Good for him!
Haha maybe he’s angling for a controversial Nobel Peace Prize win.
(For context he won a Grammy about 10 years ago when the vast vast majority of people thought it should have gone to Kendrick Lamar)
To give credit to Macklemore he thought Kendrick should have gotten it as well. I hated his pro gay song when it came out because I was an edgy teen and I thought it was a kinda shallow interpretation, but as far as I can see he’s a pretty cool guy. Thrift shop was great though and I really liked that song.
He’s been quite vocal, so I wouldn’t call it surprising.
Here’s some context: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-fucked-up-song-1235266262/
As much as I support Palestine, I am no longer comfortable with Macklemore since his actual antisemitic impersonation of a stereotypical jew.
Critical support and/or broken clock depending on which term you prefer. He can be an asshole that doesn’t deserve your respect but that doesn’t automatically invalidate his point about the genocide.
@raspberriesareyummy you say that him talking about ongoing genocide and the fascist Netanyahu and his KKK ministers makes you uncomfortable?
You lack basic reading comprehension:
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/20/showbiz/macklemore-costume-apology/index.html
This was a clear indication that Macklemore is not a good role model.
You had to dig up an article from 2014, one where he’s literally apologizing, to pull out that antisemitism claim?
Yeah, rappers can be really stupid, doesn’t change the current situation that he’s recognized an ongoing genocide and using his prominence as a popular artists to bring attention to the issue, such as promoting the flotilla with aid on it’s way to hundreds of thousands of starving children
“someone did something kinda dumb like a decade ago so everything they say and stand for is invalid forever”
That’s pretty shitty accusation typical of assholes who see antisemitism in everything.
Going through your profile shows you have 0 care for Palestine or the ongoing genocide and the only comment I found was this attack against him.It’s yet another typical spam poster from the shitty Lemmy server.
If that is the reason you question him, then it shows you are full of shit.
Idk this just seems like an issue for people who were looking for a reason to dislike him
Someone should’ve noticed beforehand that this disguise + thrift shop would come across poorly, but it genuinely seems like he just didn’t put it together and didn’t run it by anyone else who did
@raspberriesareyummy
I’m sure you don’t call the pro genocide, pro IDF Zionist Seinfeld for antisemite for one distasteful episode in his crappy TV showhttps://forward.com/culture/564797/seinfeld-circumcision-episode-jason-alexander/
