Macklemore and Ed: one's a bigot, one's a fool

For those who were blessedly unaware of Benjamin Hammond Haggerty’s existence, like me, a refresher.

Haggerty performs (checks notes) rap music under the name “Macklemore.” He grew up in a Seattle neighbourhood where homes routinely fetch around $2 million (Cdn.). He went to one high school where the median household income was about $200,000 a year.

Coincidentally, the high school Macklemore attended has been sued at least twice for Jewish students being terrorized by others. According to one of the lawsuits, 20 students chased a female student, surrounded her and starting screaming threats and antisemitic epithets.

The lawsuit came with photos of the school, replete with swastikas on walls, and accounts of students declaring: “Hitler’s plan should have worked,” “I hate Jews” and urging the student to kill herself for being Jewish. She was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Out of this impoverished, tolerant environment came Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, who took the name “Macklemore” from an art project he did back in his high school, which was seemingly around the time that his brain seemingly stopped developing.

One of his songs is called “Wing$,” about some running shoes his mother bought for him:

“At school I was so cool.

I knew that I couldn't crease ‘em.

My friends couldn't afford ‘em”

It’s not Highway 61-era Bob Dylan, we know. But Haggerty wasn’t done expressing himself, unfortunately. He had a thing or two to say about politics, as well.

One song he wrote is called “F**ked Up.” It is about things that Macklemore considers “f**cked up,” which is, well, you know.

Some tidbits: “white supremacy is still in charge” in Gaza, he raps. “Killin’ Palestinian kids” is happening because of an “oligarchy and men that control us all” - golly, who could he be referring to? - getting tax breaks and making groceries expensive.

“How you think Israel gets money for the best tanks?” Macklemore yodels, adding that a vast conspiracy is at work: “That's your money, and yes, it's all connected. And they controllin' your feed, the information that they censor! Blockin' hashtags, can't say Free Palestine.”

Jews getting rich off other peoples’ misery, globalist conspiracies led by Jews, billions being sent to “Israel’s safes,” as Macklemore puts it. That’s what the Jewish state is preoccupied with, he declares in the song: “More blood, more weapons, more money, more oppression.”

Look, I’ve been writing about neo-Nazis for several decades. I’ve published several bestselling books about groups ranging from the Ku Klux Klan to the Aryan Nations. I’ve won awards for my work. Trust me when I say that Macklemore’s oeuvre is classic Hitler-freak cross-burner stuff. You know: Jews are monsters, Jews kill the innocent, Jews profit off war, and on and on. It’s crap that is straight out of the antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, except with a 4/4 beat.

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