Photos of rapper Macklemore in what critics call an anti-Semitic Jewish caricature costume have resurfaced online, compounding a growing backlash that has already cost Ed Sheeran every opening act on his U.S. tour. The 2014 images, showing Macklemore performing in Seattle wearing an oversized prosthetic nose, black beard, and shaggy black wig, returned to public […] The post Macklemore's anti-Semitic costume resurfaces as Ed Sheeran tour collapses over rapper's pro-Palestine stance appeared first on American Almanac .
Photos of rapper Macklemore in what critics call an anti-Semitic Jewish caricature costume have resurfaced online, compounding a growing backlash that has already cost Ed Sheeran every opening act on his U.S. tour. The 2014 images, showing Macklemore performing in Seattle wearing an oversized prosthetic nose, black beard, and shaggy black wig, returned to public attention as the fallout from his removal from Sheeran's Loop tour continued to escalate. Macklemore, whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty, was dropped from the tour's remaining U.S. dates after delivering pro-Palestinian speeches at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on September 4 and 5, during which he wore a Palestinian keffiyeh while "Free Palestine" images flashed on the arena's…Open
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George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing. The post Nothing Worth Staying Up For appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Nothing Worth Staying Up For George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing. (Johnny Louis/FilmMagic) Vigil: A Novel, by George Saunders, Random House, 174 pages. G.K. Chesterton may or may not have actually said, “The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything,” but in this, the third decade of the 21st century, the words ring true. We might want to add a corollary: The first effect of not believing in sin, as traditionally defined by the major schools of religious and moral thought, is to believe in forms of “sin” that are no such thing. Thus, a not-insignificant percentage of the American population tolerates or supports the clear sin of abortion while making social taboos out of the…Open
