Just a few days after the rapper Macklemore was announced as a headliner of the inaugural Neon City Festival in downtown Las Vegas, he has been dropped from the lineup.

News that the rapper was removed from the Neon City lineup comes after his performance at the Palestine Will Love Forever Festival in Seattle over the weekend. A video of Macklemore yelling “Yeah, f— America!” during his performance has since been viewed over a million times on social media.

Macklemore has not kept his stance on the ongoing war in Gaza a secret. In May, he made headlines when he released “Hind’s Hall,” a rap single praising college students for their protests of the war and denouncing the U.S.'s role in the conflict.

  • Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    518·
    3 months ago

    There are plenty of ways to protest the Israeli government’s atrocities in Gaza that don’t involve dressing up like a literal hooknosed antisemitic caricature that looks like it was lifted directly from neo-Nazi propaganda. If anything that kind of blatantly bigoted bullshit undermines the Palestinian cause by making it look like protests are motivated by hatred of Jewish people rather than solidarity with the people of Gaza.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      32·
      3 months ago

      That wasn’t a protest, though? It was also 9 years ago, so not sure why you’re insinuating it has anything to do with the last year of violence.

      • Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        3 months ago

        Thanks for the correction – I’d heard about the costume thing the other day and thought it was part of the same event as in this story. Doesn’t make it any less anti-semitic (and IDF fuckery in Gaza has been going on for long before October 7th), but it does explain why it seemed like people were ignoring it.