Zeros

Macklemore, Lil Durk, and the Great Pop-Music Reality Gap There is something almost performance-art-like about how pop music culture decides what counts as a scandal. Take Macklemore . He has been caught in two very different controversies involving Israel and Palestine , and they are worth separating because apparently nobody has time for that anymore . There was the costume controversy, dating back years , involving an outfit widely criticized as a Jewish caricature . That is one conversation . Then there is Macklemore the political speaker , who has repeatedly used his public platform to advocate for Palestinians, most recently giving a pro-Palestinian speech at a September concert and performing Hind’s Hall . That controversy is about political speech and the consequences of making it onstage . Those things are not automatically the same thing. But modern media discourse apparently prefers a blender. Macklemore has now been removed from the U.S. portion of Ed Sheeran...