Macklemore Dresses Up As Offensive Jewish Caricature At Secret Show
On Friday night, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performed a secret show in their hometown of Seattle to honor a new exhibit at the city's EMP Museum. This would have been completely unremarkable had Macklelmore not dressed up as the stereotype of a greedy, hook-nosed Jewish man.
Yes, that's @macklemore. He & @RyanLewis played a surprise performance @EMPmuseum tonight: pic.twitter.com/ARjJ1xjoZS
— Seattle Refined (@SeattleRefined) May 17, 2014
Check out @macklemore performing “Thrift Shop” as a stereotypical Jewish man. So much for same love, eh? pic.twitter.com/yZ19QmxIV0
— Ian de Borja (@idb1204) May 19, 2014
Though Macklemore is held up by many as a paragon of progressivism—think back to his celebrated Grammys performance in which dozens of gay couples were married, or him receiving a MTV Video Music Award for "Best Video With a Social Message"—he is in reality a massive doofus whose most celebrated song is propped up by flimsy logic like "when I was in third grade, I thought I was gay."
He's also a 9/11 truther:
911...bush knocked down the towers
September 18, 2009
All of which is to say that Macklemore picking a costume that happens to be a deeply racist caricature isn't really all that surprising given his history of being an idiot. On a related note, here is his explanation of the costume:
A fake witches nose, wig, and beard = random costume. Not my idea of a stereotype of anybody.
— Macklemore (@macklemore) May 19, 2014
This is not fucking awesome. For more photos of Macklemore dressed up like literal Nazi propaganda, there is this gallery from the Seattle Times.
[image via YouTube]
