Pink breaks silence on why she slammed Macklemore's message

[TaylorSwift 163,539]

Pink has written a 1,088-word essay to break her silence on the backlash she received for reposting criticism of Macklemore‘s “Free Palestine” message.

Last weekend, Macklemore joined Ed Sheeran‘s concert tour and he used his opening set at two New Jersey shows to voice support for Palestine. This angered many Jewish fans, who are calling for him to be removed from the tour.

Pink took to her Instagram Stories to reshare a post from the @Stop_AntiSemitism page. The page wrote the below message. x

PINK: I’ve been quiet in my own words for a week, which you know isn’t like me. So here they are.

Last Sunday I reposted somebody else’s post about Macklemore’s set at Ed Sheeran’s show. It said things in words I didn’t write, and I wouldn’t have chosen all of them. Then the comments came, and I did what I do when I’m hurt, which is post snarky memes and act like I’m fine. That’s on me. A repost isn’t a statement, and a meme isn’t a spine. Social media makes all of us cheap and fast, and we all know it. But I’d rather be disagreed with for what I actually said than hated for what anybody else wrote, so let me say it.

I was born a Jew. I didn’t pick it, and I’ve never hidden it. And this week a whole lot of people decided what I believe without asking me, without checking a single thing I’ve ever said or done, because a repost and the word “Jew” were apparently enough to fill in the rest. But let me fill it in... myself.

Of course I don’t speak for Israel, or for any government. I never have. What I said in October 2023 is still exactly what I believe: Hamas is a terrorist organization. Palestinians deserve a future that honors their humanity and their aspirations. Protecting innocent life comes first, everywhere, and nobody should ever celebrate the death of a child. Anybody’s child. I’ve spent a decade as a UNICEF ambassador for kids who didn’t choose the country or the war they were born into, and I have grieved every one of them, on both sides of that fence. I didn’t do it from behind a screen; I went to those children and held them. I’m not going to litigate a complex war in an Instagram caption, and I’m not going to recite anybody’s slogan to earn back a follower.

(Continued in comments)

Here’s what I was reacting to. I was in the room at the Grammys in 2014 when Macklemore rapped “Same Love” and thirty-three couples, gay and straight, got married to it, and I cheered, no questions asked. Four months later Macklemore put on a hooked nose, a black beard and a bowl cut, performed in it, and called it a “random costume.” Every Jew I know knew exactly what it was. The same love, it turned out, had a guest list, and we weren’t on it. But he apologized, and I let it go, because that’s what we do. We let it go. Then last weekend he stood in front of a stadium full of music-loving families, with violent images from a war on the screens, dedicated a song to the movement of his choice, and then took the mic to tell all of the Jews in the stadium that it wasn’t about them.

You don’t get to decide that for us.

That’s what prompted my repost. Not “Free Palestine,” and not anyone’s right to say it. I have never asked for another artist to be silenced and I’m not asking now. I don’t need anyone fired, and I don’t need a refund. What I need is to be able to say, as a Jewish mom, “that scared me, and it scared people I love,” without being told our fear is just propaganda, and without being told I’m somehow cool with genocide because I noticed?

And please don’t talk to me like I’ve never stood up for my beliefs when it was unpopular. In the middle of the Gulf War in 2006 I put out a song called “Dear Mr. President” and sang it every night on tour while my country was in a war I didn’t support, and I took the hate for it, and I sang it anyway because my sharp criticism was of a government, not this flawed country I love and who my dad fought for. I stood with gay kids before it was fashionable and with trans kids now, when it isn’t, and with their families, and I handed out the books that got banned, and you know I got called every name there is, and I’d do all of it again tomorrow. I have stood up for other people’s people my whole career, and I know exactly what it costs.

And now I’m standing up for my own people, and I thought I knew going in how lonely that would be. And it’s lonelier than that. But I’m doing it anyway.

Something has changed in this country, and I can read it in my own comments. “From the river to the sea.” “Zionist,” spat like it’s a slur, by people who couldn’t tell you the details of what I believe, because I hadn’t told them yet. I wasn’t asked. I was told. I don’t think most of them hate Jews. I think somebody handed them a story where the Jew who won’t apologize for existing must be the villain, and they’ve been putting words in my mouth ever since.

But I’ve been portrayed as the villain before. I can take it. I just won’t take it quietly, and I’m not going to teach my kids to.

So, to the ones who are furious with me: you don’t have to agree with me. You never did. That’s been our unspoken agreement for twenty-five years, and it still stands, and so do I. You don’t have to agree with one thing Israel’s government does to not want the Jewish family two rows down from you to be scared or targeted at a concert. That’s the only thing I’m asking anybody for. To the ones who are frightened this week, Jewish or Muslim or Palestinian or Israeli or just tired of all of it: I see you. And if anybody wants to really know what I think, just ask me. I’m right here. I’ve never been hard to find. And I’ll keep speaking out, in my own words.

It’s Friday. For working people who have more to worry about than pop stars and pile-ons, it’s the end of a hard week. It’s also the 25th anniversary of September 11th, and my prayers are with the innocent souls we lost that morning. And at sundown, for Jews, it’s Rosh Hashanah, our New Year.

Now I’m going to go make dinner for my kids, light the candles, dip some apples in honey, pour a glass of wine and be full of gratitude. That’s my tradition. It also happens to be a Jewish one.

Shana tova.

Edited 4 hours ago by TaylorSwift

[Bronco 27,463]

So she's mad at Macklemore for saying criticism of the Israeli government shouldn't be targeted at someone just for being jewish.

And then goes onto say criticism of the Israeli government shouldn't lead to attacks on people just for being jewish.

And totally fails to criticise the Israeli government at any point.

 

Get the **** out. I'm over her. Won't be streaming. Won't be cracking the credit card out for the next tour. Not that she'll have a career to tour. 

[Creyk 18,785]

Bullying works

[Sylvia Browne 2,730]

Woah.  Just.  Woah.  
 

Can anyone dig up receipts of Macklemore performing in Jew face?  Thats ****ed. 

[Creyk 18,785]

Just now, Sylvia Browne said:

Woah.  Just.  Woah.  
 

Can anyone dig up receipts of Macklemore performing in Jew face?  Thats ****ed. 

He apologized for it several times so it's pretty cheap of Alicia to bring it up like this but of course that was the only attack point she had left.

[NUTELLA 29,749]

11 minutes ago, TaylorSwift said:

What I need is to be able to say, as a Jewish mom, “that scared me, and it scared people I love,” without being told our fear is just propaganda, and without being told I’m somehow cool with genocide because I noticed?

So she's said it now...

but will she hear it?

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 32,239]

She quite did pretty good… but far from being enough. It was quite convincing at first, and then… she basically just says she shouldn’t have started the refund scandal.

[FfFfFfFF 58,650]

It's giving 2019 Youtuber apology video written by ChatGPT.

After the Y2K trend do we head toward late 2010s beauty gurus drama nostalgia?😍

[Future Lovers 7,794]

All she’s really done is equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism in extra words. 

An act which is ironically in and of itself anti-semitic. 

[FfFfFfFF 58,650]

@TaylorSwift Why did you post the wrong picture of Pink? 

[Meruk Holland 2,411]

32 minutes ago, Sylvia Browne said:

Woah.  Just.  Woah.  
 

Can anyone dig up receipts of Macklemore performing in Jew face?  Thats ****ed. 

He put on a dark bowl-cut wig, a fake beard, and a big nose in order to hide amongst concert goers at a secret show. When he was accused of doing an anti-Semitic caricature, he immediately apologized, acknowledged that it definitely could have been taken that way and understood if it hurt people, claimed that was never his intention, and then went on to platform the Anti-Defamation League ironically enough. The ADL defended him after the apology, claiming it was an unfortunate coincidence. 

100% Pink had not thought about that incident until after she reposted the original post. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Meruk Holland

[Meruk Holland 2,411]

Love that she keeps saying "Nobody even knows what my views are, you can just ask me!" and then proceeds to not elaborate what her views actually are. 

[nATAH 57,842]

"It said things in words I didn’t write, and I wouldn’t have chosen all of them."

so why repost it? why not make your own post with your own words?

[RAMROD 117,926]

She might as well sing with an ukulele for this cos what is this?!!

[TheMontebello 1,275]

So... I googled and he actually performed dressed as an "old man". He wore a black wig, beard and a halloween witch nose from some costume store and people calimed it was "Jew face". He denied it was his intention and apologized. Frankly, I don't think he was trying to depict a Jewish person at all.

 

Edit: But I'm not Jewish nor American and I don't know enough, so I'm sorry of his costume indeed was inappropriate

Edited 4 hours ago by TheMontebello