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Ed “Doesn’t take sides” yet there are clips of him in support of Ukraine
Another spineless sellout
I'm a little confused. They didn't use the phrase doesn't take sides and it seemed pretty clear where everyone stood. Macklemore has made several pro‐Palestine statements, they note Kraft withheld donations to Columbia after pro-Palestine protests, and Macklemore said Sheeran was more or less left with no option but to drop him and doesn't fault him here.
It’s from a post Macklemore made:
"He told me that the words 'Free Palestine' and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with.
I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood.
But he couldn't get past his public facing, 'I don't take sides'."
Siding with Ukraine is only controversial in handful of countries. Its default position in many. So he didn't pick a side, only went with the flow.
So he's on the side of Palestine and Ukraine, that's good.
Should have been more clear, I was referring to Ed Sheeran. He is not on the side of Palestine.
He probably is but just decided to be a total bitch because his 400 million net worth isn't enough. The man has bills to pay!
In the US of all places it would have been so fucking easy to pull the "free speech" card and support his friend if he didn't want to take a stand himself. The backlash against Kraft would have been enormous if he'd played his hand and actually cancelled the gigs.
Fuck Ed Sheeran.