Discussion on Macklemore's Speech Controversy

The Macklemore thing is really crazy because if you ever...

L- let's play his actual speech.

Find his actual speech because i- people were saying that it's

anti-Semitic. It-

there's nothing about what he's saying that's anti-Semitic.

If you listen to the entirety of the speech, he is...

Uh, I'll, I'll, I'll play it before we comment on it

because I think

there's a real problem now with clips and narratives where people hear a piece

of something, and then they make a d- they, they have the, you know, a, "Oh, you

can't say that," or, "Oh, this- he's doing this," or, "Oh,

he's doing that." Like,

everyone's losing nuance. What he's doing is talking about

what, to most people, seems like a crime against

humanity. That's what most people look at it,

and that's how they

see it. And what he's saying is in no way...

And I don't like, I don't like that term Semitic either because,

like, the Palestinians, a lot of those Palestinians are Semites.

Yeah.

And a lot of those Palestinians are lit- truly descendants of people that probably

were Jewish at one point in time and converted to Islam.

Yeah.

This is not an anti-Semitic thing because a lot of the people that

live in Israel are Jews from, um,

Eastern Europe.

Mm-hmm.

Like, they're not even from that place.