His two instances of antisemitism are saying free palestine and wearing a big nose costume over a decade ago. If you actually conceded to the nose thing, his statement plus maybe this standup routine could give us a little perspective. And like, if you genuinely think he was being antisemitic then, is he still antisemitic now? Or when did he stop being antisemitic?
wearing a big nose costume over a decade ago
I don’t know why you didn’t quote the article you linked to.
When Israel apologists claim that Benjamin Hammond Haggerty AKA Macklemore has a “history of antisemitism,” they are referring to one incident and one incident only. In 2014 Haggerty drew controversy for wearing a large fake nose in a performance which was subsequently decried as antisemitic, which would have been a fair claim if the artist had intended to depict a Jewish person.
The problem is that there is absolutely zero evidence this was the case. In a lengthy statement apologizing profusely to anyone he’d offended, Haggerty said he’d grabbed a bunch of costume supplies in order to disguise himself for a show where he could walk among the crowd and surprise them with a short performance.
[…]
A witch nose. It was a witch nose from a costume store. For Halloween. There is no evidence whatsoever that Haggerty was lying about any of this
Once again, it is more telling about what their insecurities are than any kind of bigotry on the part of the artist. Having a big nose is not a stereotype exclusively shared by Jews, Arabs, Syrians, and Turks get that one quite often as well.
Yeah I always thought the stereotypical “evil jew” caricature was funny because I’m arab and that mf looks like some dudes I know
A witch nose. It was a witch nose from a costume store. For Halloween. There is no evidence whatsoever that Haggerty was lying about any of this
Sounds like a witch hunt to me
If anything, i feel like this should start a conversation about how the pop culture depiction of witches is just a bunch of antisemitic tropes all bundled together.
And Roma tropes!
i honestly would not care at all if he was “antisemitic”. the idea that wearing a big nose or w/e is even remotely comparable to the actions of the zionazis is fucking disgusting
Debunking The Claim That Macklemore Has A “History Of Antisemitism”: He doesn’t. He just doesn’t.
He was simply dressing up as brace belden
“you wore a big nose once so you don’t get to be upset about the genocide I’m committing” make it make sense
Demonstrates nicely as well that there’s no pleasing zionists; Macklemore’s made statements specifically saying he’s not attacking Jewish people and that he has nothing against Jews, and still you’ll hear “history of antisemitism”. Try to act shocked that billionaire zionist Robert Kraft is being dishonest btw.
ⓘ Remember to enable JPEG-XL support in your browser, even on your phone!
There is no way to win. He should doubble down. We don’t care about actual semitic behavior. He should just claim he got the idea from Kanye
they don’t believe it either they just want you talking about something besides Palestinian children being genocided crushed by tanks and having 2000 pound bombs dropped on them
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
