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Ms. Rachel to Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Support Palestine: ‘I Invite Every Wealthy White Celebrity’ to Do the Same (variety.com)
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[–] 31 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

I'm confused, why call out just white people? A million dollars is a million dollars...

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  • [–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Because privilege is power and power is responsibility.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    By the time someone has enough millions to toss them around to various causes, their race is a rounding error in their level of privilege. All this does is try to reframe a class vs class struggle as a race vs race struggle.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's so funny that you guys are getting up voted when I said almost the exact same thing and hammered for it. Love the consistency. I have the exact view you do. Adding white to this feels performative rather than actually wanting too solve the problem. It's "woke 1.0" vibes.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Yours came across as a pithy comment coming from a “woke bad” reactionary frame commonly associated with right wing influencers. Mine was rhetorically better for Lemmy, and included a clear “no war but class war” dog whistle that appeals to a large crowd here.

    We agree on the substance on this issue, but your rhetoric doesn’t match your audience.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    For real black artists like Kendrick have been a huge disappointment. Their big mouth about the oppressed never went past their own neighborhood. Instead the whitest guys on the block are stepping up.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Kendrick routinely donates to charities. He focuses on Compton and LA, but to paint it like he doesn't donate to causes that serve the underprivileged isn't quite accurate.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Not a single word about Palestine in 3 years. Kendrick is a fraud.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Tell me you should be out in your own community more instead of online all the time without telling me you should be out in your own community more instead of online all the time...

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar called out the racism double standard in the Black community years ago.

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-is-outrage-anti-semitism-sports-hollywood-1303210/

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