r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Sep 14 '26

article Macklemore Speaks Out After Being Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour: “I’m going to speak from the heart and share the truth”

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/macklemore-defends-free-palestine-speech-fired-ed-sheeran-tour-1236861158/
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u/CheekyHarris33 Sep 14 '26

My city 💙 💚💙💚 we stand on business. Ben (Macklemore) is an incredible person, and has always stood on the right side of history.

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u/PlayfulRemote9 Sep 14 '26

If someone dressed up in blackface, and then continued to shit on black people after — would you say that’s the right side of history? 

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u/blueCthulhuMask Sep 15 '26

Showing empathy to the victims of a genocide isn't "shitting in Jewish people."

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u/PlayfulRemote9 Sep 15 '26

I didn’t say that’s what he was doing here, but it has been his general schtick ever since. And it isn’t a genocide, should get off the internet, being fed a bit too much propaganda. Or find other parts that stick to facts

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u/Kerblaaahhh Sep 15 '26

"It isn't a genocide unless it happens in the genocide region of Germany, otherwise it's just a sparkling atrocity." Fuck off with that man, you want to defend the murder of tens to hundreds of thousands of innocents you can do it without getting caught up on semantics.

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u/AydonusG Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26

Careful, next you'll be accused of being anti-semantic

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u/Kerblaaahhh Sep 15 '26

Who cares, that term has lost all meaning.

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u/AydonusG Sep 15 '26

Read again, I wasn't saying semitic.

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u/Kerblaaahhh Sep 15 '26

Oops, lol. Well done.

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u/PlayfulRemote9 Sep 15 '26

Hundreds of thousands! God where do you get these wild numbers. 

The population of Gaza is larger now than before the war. Show me any confirmed genocide, German or otherwise, where that’s the case. 

Hint: you can’t 

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u/Kerblaaahhh Sep 15 '26

The numbers by the Gaza Health Ministry (which are a major undercount given their very conservative methods) are at around 70k. Other estimates are well above 100k. Again, though, if you want to defend the indiscriminate murder of men, women, and children, that's on you.

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u/PlayfulRemote9 Sep 15 '26

oh now we're saying Hamas is undercounting, jesus I'm never gonna get through to you. it's been confirmed by multiple sources the number, it has also been confirmed (in a number of ways, but most damning of which being) that Hamas paid the family of their fighters -- about 35k teen-50 year olds were paid. that leaves 35k for your supposed genocide, but hardly indiscriminate, unless you're gonna tell me next all people who died were innocent and not celebrating with Hamas when they did oct 7th (or when 9/11 happened)

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u/Kerblaaahhh Sep 15 '26

Give it up brother, the hasbara doesn't work anymore. We've all seen what Israel has been doing.

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u/PlayfulRemote9 Sep 15 '26

lmao but of course, bring out numbers and it's hasbara.

You've seen the outcome of war, you haven't seen hundreds of thousands of people die, or children starve, and yet you have no problem parroting that.

Might be time to stop and wonder if you're the one who's been pushed mouthful of propaganda -- but who am I kidding, you're clearly quite entrenched in emotions and not facts

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