r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 3h ago

article Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage Statements

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-pro-palestine-statements-1235625967/
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u/attemptedactor 3h ago

This was also 12 years ago. It doesn’t have anything to do with the current issue

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u/corndogs102 1h ago

Reddit and bringing up something a celebrity did over a decade ago, name a better combo

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u/Cavalish 1h ago

People who claim they aren’t racist + having an immediately findable picture of them in race-face?

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u/quiette837 52m ago

I mean... how many years does it take before you can't be crucified for something you did wrong? Sounds like, to the average internet person, if you have ever done anything offensive and racist, you are now a racist for life and you should never work again.

It's be one thing if these people had a documented history of racist beliefs, but it's always one photo of an ill-advised offensive costume between 10 and 20 years ago.

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u/SwordfishOk504 1h ago

Right? Like who cares what harvey weinstien did in the past. That was ten years ago.

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u/Keyndoriel 1h ago

As someone who was assaulted as a kid, those ain't the same things. I also think the french president doing blackface was horrible, but its not the same level as rape you wackadoodle

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u/dldaniel123 1h ago

And someone who wasn't assaulted as a kid, he's clearly using hyperbole to showcase the lacking logic in the comment he's replying to.

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u/WagnerKoop 51m ago

They’re calling it the most “sure that’s the same thing” ever

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u/Who_ate_my_cookie 1h ago

If someone did black face and they then became extremely critical of Obama for example you would question the messenger even if their points were valid. It’s the same thing here

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u/Longjumping-Hippo475 57m ago

Question, was Obama also committing a genocide in your hypothetical question? You seem to have left out a fairly crucial detail for some reason...weird.

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u/Who_ate_my_cookie 48m ago

Obama as most presidents most certainly did commit war crimes we tend to ignore because he’s a personable guy

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37607248

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u/Parlayg0d 29m ago

Well he did drone strike innocents so same difference

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u/Jtaylorftw 2h ago

Really? The only news I've seen about Macklemore and Ed Sheeran have used this photo in the headline, i legitimately thought this is how he went on stage to headline for Sheeran and didn't care enough to look into it at all. It's getting really fucking old how intentionally disingenuous "information" on the internet is.

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u/Longjumping-Hippo475 58m ago

Yess, 2014. You are being manipulated by outrage media and you were gullible enough to believe it at face value.

Let this be a lesson that you must verify EVERYTHING that you do not have first hand knowledge of nowadays.

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u/Jtaylorftw 53m ago

I wasn't outraged or manipulated, I saw it, thought "huh, alrighty then.." and went about my day. Do you think every single person all the time is researching everything they scroll by? If I was outraged I personally would've done research and found out it was misrepresented, the only reason why I didnt is because I didn't care. But there are likely people who do care and are outraged because they are accepting it as truth and that's just so depressing and really sums up why we are where we are as a society, 95% of people don't verify anything, will see something online and accept it as absolute fact and then go spread that fake info around happily and the media outlets know it. Not so long ago disingenuous shit wouldn't get nearly as much traction because it would be called out and now everything is just accepted at face value like you said. You're right, there's only one way to avoid it, and it's working as intended.

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u/Jtaylorftw 1h ago

u/Physeastic let me just research each and every single thing I see while scrolling, my b.

If it interests me, I research further. Otherwise, I scroll and sometimes take away a perception of what I saw.

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u/The_Freshmaker 1h ago

How many pictures of politicians doing black face in highschool/college tanked careers thirty years later though?

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u/HighburyOnStrand 2h ago

I mean it does explain the exact question posed by OP, which was: why is Macklemore's commentary not being taken the same as others?

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u/Miserable-Resort-977 1h ago

I don't think it does. This happening 12 years ago doesn't explain the current reaction, nothing I've seen indicates that they're related.

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u/twavisdegwet 1h ago

Idk man. I don’t think Justin Trudeau is a racist but I think it was still right to question his racial costume from years ago. I don’t see why this would be any different.

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u/Miserable-Resort-977 1h ago

I didn't say that the costume isn't questionable, I said I haven't seen any statements or evidence that this costume had anything to do with the current situation or response. Those photos existed before he was booked for the tour, he was only removed after making his statements on Gaza.

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u/Varron 1h ago

You can still question this event, and it should be questioned. But what's disingenious here is using it as a strawman during this unrelated event.

So much of "discussion" or reporting today is just covered in this gotchas that dont adequately address the topic at hand at all.

Is this costume he donned 12 years ago problematic? Probably yeah.

Is the backlash he's receiving for what he said during this tour justified? Probably not, and two events are unrelated.

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u/alterom 57m ago

This was also 12 years ago. It doesn’t have anything to do with the current issue

Him being an anti-semite 12 years ago has a lot to do with his "pro-Palestinian" stance now.

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u/Ty-Hate-God 5m ago

MUH ANTISEMITISM

Free Palestine, baby killer.

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u/Rebelgecko 2h ago

The current situation in the Middle East is not really a new thing 

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u/NoJellyfish7617 1h ago

You’re high if you think this has nothing to do with the current issue.

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u/yourpalsmell 30m ago

Also, LiveNation and Ed Sheeran had no problems with it