Macklemore, "Same Love"

as a jew, i give macklemore 7 or 8 dimwit points for the costume, and 9 or 10 dimwit points for deciding not to apologize. but i'm giving all my gibson points this month to donald sterling, whose "how come jews help other jews but blacks don't help other blacks?" comment a) was ridiculously offensive to african-americans and pretty much all other humans, and b) will potentially reinforce some people's opinions that jews are evil pigs who probably deserve all the jewface they get.

yes i am so much more offended by donald sterling and so is every jew i know

X post...He seems to be saying that Macklamore is not as bad as Hitler. But who said that he was?

I'm sure that many plantation owners were worse than Donald Sterling, too. That doesn't make what that idiot said ok.

wht ppl who think they are "down" but are in fact not all that "down" after all

― katsu kittens (contenderizer), Tuesday, May 20, 2014 6:19 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Correct term is YT ppl

Response to that article Ned linked:

Half of my family is Jewish. I'm not offended, although I am a bit alarmed at how thin-skinned you are that you would be "incredibly upset and offended" at a crappy thrown together thrift-shop costume! Did he sing anti-semetic songs? Did he start off his set with a "Heil Hitler"?

Fuck Macklemore fans forever, basically.

As a Jew, I find it kind of quaint Macklemore apropos of nothing(?) should go Jew-face. I'm not offended because a) I always expect the worst of just about everyone and b) I expect absolutely nothing from Macklemore, good or bad. And I certainly don't think the guy is smart enough to be nefarious, or dumb enough to be dangerous.

In other words, keep it up, Macklemore! I don't listen to you, but I'd kind of like to see how this all plays out.

Wait Donald Sterling is Jewish?

shameface :(

Lol josh otm

his birth name was tokowitz

his new name is fuckoffowitz

as a jew, i celebrate yom kippur, rosh hashanah and hannukah! my god's name is moses.

Behold his mighty hand!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqCTq3EeDcY

Macklemore sounds like the name of a crappy fish

mackleless

Oh damn, I let myself get sucked into a an fb fight with a clueless white dude over Macklemore. That wasn't supposed to happen, but I'm feeling energetic about shit like this lately.

But Reagan democrats weren't concerned with being "down;" that's the point I'm making. It's grafting a weird hipster narrative about coolness onto a phenomenon directly related to the decline of industry.

― intheblanks, Monday, May 19, 2014 3:22 PM (4 hours ago)

jk

I honestly don't even want this dude to fall off because he cluelessly dressed like a caricatured jew, there are so man other good reasons for him to fall off

Yeah, the Reagan Democrat thing isn't a complete equivalence due to the economic aspects, but it's definitely there in the unexamined attitudes toward race, et cetera, and all the rest. Or basically this:

re: reagan democrats, it was a matter of "we've given you enough", which has been the political narrative ever since

― brimstead, Monday, May 19, 2014 3:11 PM Bookmark

am down w/calling these yung dummies "reagan democrats" bc they are most likely the children of reagan democrats

Yeah, I actually understand the point a little better now. I was just trying to point out that "Reagan Democrat" has a very specific connotation. The 'we've given you enough' sentiment does really capture it, and you see that idea emerge at the end of 70s/beginning of the 80s, when the Roosevelt coalition totally breaks down.

But Reagan Democrat doesn't just mean "fake progressive," so I was just confused to see it used interchangeably with "people who claim to be liberals but maybe don't think critically about race/privilege/their position in culture, and don't like being called out on it." That's not what "Reagan Democrat" means, and honestly you can find those people in every era ever, from before the Civil War to, I don't know, Adlai Stevenson and beyond.

The more I think about it, the more I realize I'm probably splitting hairs. I just don't necessarily picture a factory worker who moved to Macomb County after the '67 riots when I think of Macklemore fans. Doesn't mean that the whole Macklemore phenomenon doesn't have its own set of problems.

…some of which overlap.

well i guess we can just call them white people

am down w/calling these yung dummies "reagan democrats" bc they are most likely the children of reagan democrats

― smooth hymnal (m bison), Monday, May 19, 2014 11:09 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why are they most likely that

I get more of a milquetoast mainstream liberal vibe tbh

hey guys, he's "hip" to the ADL now.

http://macklemore.com/post/86276707372/family-friends-and-fans-alike-who-know-me-well

i know there aren't any ads there but i feel dirty giving that a pageclick

Earlier in the day I thought it would be fun to dress up in a disguise and go incognito to the event, so that I could walk around unnoticed

yes i'm sure he absolutely blended into the background

I picked up a bunch of fake mustaches and beards and grabbed a left over wig from our recent trip to Japan.

cool I'm sure that wig was definitely used in a very culturally sensitive way in Japan

regardless of what happens concerning this particular episode, i hope this clown & his career immediately fade into the cruelest kind of nothingness

idk it'd be kinda sad if after his multiple crimes against literally all of the rest of humanity this dumb costume was the thing that killed him

i don't just want his career to end on what he thinks is an unfair misunderstanding

i want to be able to sleep knowing that he's no longer proud of himself

i would destroy so much for that small comfort

am down w/calling these yung dummies "reagan democrats" bc they are most likely the children of reagan democrats

― smooth hymnal (m bison), Monday, May 19, 2014 11:09 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why are they most likely that

― socki (s1ocki), Monday, May 19, 2014 10:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have absolutely no data to support what i said, just shootin from the hip

i don't just want his career to end on what he thinks is an unfair misunderstanding

i want to be able to sleep knowing that he's no longer proud of himself

Wow, and Yes!

a beautiful dream

shawn mullins technically isn't a "rapper"

― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, November 15, 2013 11:29 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post is killing me

macklemore fans : reagan democrats :: lumineers fans : whigs

~makes u think~

oh snap

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/05/19/i-stopped-by-the-costume-shop-where-macklemore-says-he-got-that-costume-and-that-is-not-a-witch-nose

this looks nothing like a witches nose care to comment mr macklemore

v clever euphemistic racist naming on that nose btw

wow i hope amanda palmer is taking notes because that's an exemplary display of non-apology she could only hope to pull off

is kind of funny how he tried to be like, it's just a generically misogynist costume, not an anti-semetic [sic] one

Incredible language in that apology, like Homer Simpson wearing a monocle.

"unfortunately at the time I did not foresee the costume to be viewed in such regard"

ilx catnip this

more like any opportunity to mock some imagined monolithic ilx for giving a shit about racism or misogyny = darraghmac catnip

fuck off, cunto

o u :D

oh my god, that apology

lolololololololololol

ppl like darraghmac are pretty much the reason ppl like macklemore get away with shit like this

scum tbh