Ms. Rachel to Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Support Palestine: ‘I Invite Every Wealthy White Celebrity’ to Do the Same
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/ms-rachel-macklemore-donation-palestine-gaza-1236866020/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised Ms. Rachel has a million dollars, but here I am having not really thought about it before.
Some of her videos have billions of views.
And I haven't seen a single one of them. I've heard of Ms. Rachel, but she doesn't really play a part in my life.
Just letting you know! Not passing judgment on you lol. I was surprised to learn how many views she’s accumulated myself today.
Wow. She was popular in our house for a while but through Netflix (and even overtook that God awful Cocomelon for the top spot on most watched in Ireland for kids) but I never knew she'd reached such heights.
I already thought she was one of the kindest souls on this earth but this whole thing is just the icing on the cake.
Not just has a million dollars, but has enough millions to give one away, and presumably still have millions left over.
oh hel ya
go whities
White power, hell yeah
Fuck off.
Dis u?
Yeah. Fuck you, cracker.
I guess that didn’t land lol
Lay off the coke
Swing and a miss...
I choose to see this as a joke which makes it really fucking funny tbh
This woman is just the greatest. What an absolute legend.
She's a bit more of an OG than she looks.
Big time. From that article:
POW! Right in the kisser. Absolute BOSS lady.
She's one of the good whitey's.
It’s good to finally see Israel’s genocide of Gaza starting to be recognized by western mainstream media, and that several famous celebrities are using their platforms to advocate for the Palestinian cause. I can only hope there will be some form of justice for the Palestinian people eventually…
if you do this in Australia you'll be hauled before the courts for hate speech, being against Israel is antisemitic. Alas, we've adopted a broad brush
Same in the UK and Germany :/
I'm confused, why call out just white people? A million dollars is a million dollars...
Because privilege is power and power is responsibility.
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.
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.
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.
Even later comments that has just about the exact same content got obliterated.
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.
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.
Not a single word about Palestine in 3 years. Kendrick is a fraud.
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...
Like how Macklemore is out in the community in silence... And Malcolm X never spoke about Palestine...
" If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu
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/
I just checked and Kendrick Lamarhas the same booking agents as Ed Sheeran "THE TEAM" Hahaha.
Poor white people, they have it so hard. 😞
Poor people of any stripe have it hard. Insulating the wealthy based on demographic is incorrect. Anyone with more than, say, $101 million can spare a mil for a good cause
reparations 🤷♀️
When Mrs Rachel speaks, I'll listen.
If I had millions, hell yeah.
every none white celebrity not being invited : ☹
You are the kinda person who complains black lives matter excludes other races.
What the faq is it with Lemmy recently. Nobody seems to get jokes anymore.
I think it works like this: If your friend makes this joke to you and a small group of friends, and you know they're not racist, and just being silly, it's okay. If you hear a stranger shout this in a crowd, it's too risky to give them the benefit of the doubt. Because they might be a bad actor trying to drum up support with the wrong kind of people. You all feel like like-minded friends to me, but you're really strangers, and so are the people who can hear what you say.
Okay but with the context of the headline and the presence of an emoji, you can easily tell this is a light-hearted joke. Some people seem to be looking for problems where there are none.
There are plenty of people in the comment sections of these articles actually complaining about white people being targeted. It's a matter of reading the room.
It’s an .ml community
you certainly are proud in your ignorance of what it takes to have spare millions while white in america vs what it takes to have spare millions while not white in america. odds are, for one of them you just have to work harder than the other given the same circumstances and dilemmas etc.
Dumb to specify white celebrities.
Edit: Yes I understand white privilege. But, don't all celebrities have privilege? Don't all wealthy people have privilege? I don't know why people insist on turning classism into racism.
Later in her statement:
She has been blasted 24/7 for not “staying in her lane”, so I think she understandably wants to draw a direct causal line explaining why this “is her lane”.
the anglosphere is the primary driver of the genocide happening in gaza rn
So only the "anglosphere" should donate to defend them? Do you actually want to defend them or do you just want something performative?
Nobody is preventing others from donating as well. This is about calling out the anglosphere for their inaction.
That's the most clarifying take I've heard. Thanks, that perspective makes sense.
Reading comprehension would have brought you to that explanation yesterday.
Ms Rachel calling on wealthy white celebrities to donate in no way means that no one else can donate.
And you ruined it by being condescending.
Oh no…. Anyway…
Talking about "performative" when you're weaponizing performative wokeness rn lmao
What?
yes we should, but the problem is that is the anglosphere doesn't now what the anglosphere is -- they literally think it's just white people 99% of the time. lol
If every white NFL owner donated $1 million, they'd make $30 million. Their net worths would go down by 0%
https://www.nfl.com/photos/team-owners-of-the-nfl-09000d5d824c9f3c#c45018dc-a23b-460a-a61e-d5c44840c095
Ok but you could just say NFL owner without the white in this case. I'd never imagine them to live in a ghetto no matter their race. The fact that they're (probably, havent checked the link yet) all white does not mean I don't associate the ownership part with wealth. Wealth is dirty no matter the color.
30 out of 32 NFL owners are white billionaires. All colluding to prevent somebody from using their stadiums to give support to brown people that are being mass murdered by other white people.
I also find it funny that if you click the link, the first person in the list is the only non white owner. What are the odds.
Yes but the point you're missing is that the way you focus on it, it makes it seems like their "whiteness" is the reason they are evil, not their billionaire status. Like it would be ok if they weren't white. Do you get where I'm going with this?
Their whiteness is relevant to them using their power to prevent people from spreading a message that highlights the suffering of brown people
Ok that must be a football thing then. I'm not american so that's not a context I'd think about.
Well, this is the entire story we're commenting on. The billionaire NFL owners own these stadium, and are working together to prevent Macklemore from spreading his message.
What does that have to do with anything?
It has something to do with something
Something not related.
Or something else
I'm impressed, I haven't seen white fragility this fragile since the George Floyd uprising
There's a comment crying about white lives on every single one of these posts.
Of course there is. For a leftist space, lemmy seems to have a lot of it. It's disappointing
Please, think of the white male minority 😂
They're the most oppressed on Lemmy, don'cha know.
Got a lot of libs who think they are progressives in these parts because they are marginally less bad than Trump supporters and their ilk
You can also count on two hands the amount of them who won't gleefully gloat at nazi violence as punishment for not conforming to the whims of their DNC masters. The masked Gesta/pol/ just shot your wife and put your children in a small cage? Welp, shouldn't have ruined brunch
Been arguing with more than one of them still (a waste of time)
Lemmy is majority reactionary.
.world, the reddit refugee instance, is the biggest instance by a good margin. That instance alone gets you like 10% nazis and 60% one minor inconvenience away from being a nazi.
Don't leftists recognize the real struggle is class based? Every time you distort it to be race based you encourage the in fighting that the Epstein class wants you to do.
A fatal mistake for leftists is to narrow in on only class. Class is extremely important, but it's not everything. As working class people, we have to acknowledge the harm that occurs to people in minority groups. If our class-based politics aren't intersectional with queer, black, brown, women, and other political minorities, we will not achieve a classless society
You should read
-W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America
-Oliver C. Cox, Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics
-Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
-Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory
Racial and Gender discrimination is a direct product of class relations not a second system operating alongside it.
Yes, but the system of class oppression manifests differently for these diverse groups, which means that all individuals will have a unique perspective on these systems of class oppression. A queer person has a different experience from a black person. A black trans woman will have a unique experience that is intersectional to queer, black, and women's struggles for liberation.
For us to dismantle class oppression, we need to understand and address how class is used to oppress minorities
That doesn't mean we ignore racial and gender discrimination to focus only on class.
I only wish I had more than one upvote for this comment. You are exactly right.
Are all those minority groups part of the 99% being oppressed by the Epstein class? Yes. They are part of the classist system. Obviously they're included, nobody should have to suffer homelessness, starvation, lack of healthcare, etc...
In the same way "all lives matter" or "not all men" or "equal lefts"?
Read the room, pal. Whites have privilege, privilege is power, and refusing to do good with the privileges youre given is objectively evil.
"The way people higher up our social hierarchies are reliably listened to over those lower down these unjust rankings is itself a major injustice. And it’s a pernicious everyday fact of life under oppressive systems like patriarchy and white supremacy. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to respond to the situation as a more privileged person. The right way involves speaking up when others who are less privileged won’t be heeded in the same way, and then using your power and privilege to amplify the voices of the marginalized folks who’ve long been shouting into the void. A wrong way is speaking over those who are better positioned to understand the issues due to their lived experience. But there’s another wrong way too: maintaining a scrupulous silence."
"When powerful and privileged white people speak in defense of Black and brown people subject to state violence and colonization and genocide, there’s often a long overdue moment of reckoning."
Source
👏
Of course the white progressiveness still has white hubris even when trying to do something good: they have to be reminded of that every time, with extreme prejudice even.
White people continuing to not recognize their privilege. A tale as old as time.
On Lemmy.ml even 😔
Give it some time. More reasonable voices may pop in here :)
I doubt that time is in Lemmy's side -- the Epstein class's brainworms have proven to be self sustaining enough to trigger episodes like piefed and tesseract's attempts to suppress leftist content so it's only a matters of time until something sticks -- presuming that it hasn't already happened.
I’ve found a good number of people who participate here are quite reasonable and lovely.
Lmao, ok to specify celebrities, but why only white?
Who has the most power in society in terms of racial disposition?
Sure, why not. Celebrities by definition have the attention of many people. I just don't see the point of narrowing that down even further.
Because wealthy white celebrities have more influence.
That's a weak excuse. By definition a subset of influential people still have less influence than the entire group of influential people.
Tell that to Oprah and every book she's ever placed at the top of the best seller list.
Hahahahahahaha
Haaaaaahahahahahahahahaha
Presumably she wanted to respect the fact that nonwhite celebrities might have causes closer to home that need their financial support. Or just that she can't speak for them, so she's staying in her lane. And calling out those whose extra privilege makes them extra blind.
Because Ms. Rachel is intelligent.
These two are Americans. Remember that next time you’re posting/commenting about Americans.
we remember.
we also remember who's supplying the bombs.
Yep, that would be your boy, Donald “there is no lesser evil 🙈” Trump.
Biden also funded Israel.
Yep, they are exactly the same.
In their foreign policy of rape, murder, and torture, correct.
boohoo, oh boohoo your poor domestic population is suffering 1 billionth of what your foreign policies does to people not in your innocent country oh boo hoo
See, there it is. Genocide apologist as long as there's a donkey doing it.
When someone says fuck Nazi Germany, do you think they meant the victims and the people fighting back in the country too?
The analogy would be “fuck Germans.”
And would you think people meant the victims and the people fighting back too?
I would think you need to learn how analogies work.
I wonder why you're having trouble answering the question 🤔
What an American fucking thing to say
Understood keep them both alive and burn everyone else.
Burn hundreds of millions of people! At least you're honest, I guess.
It is kind of annoying people blaming Americans as if I personally am responsible for the shit Trump does.
I think critics of our fascist American leaders understand that not every single American voted for them but they are criticizing America as a whole, not you as an individual. It’s like how I appreciated Hungarians for starting to break away from their ugliness, even though plenty voted for Orban.
Critics in general understand this, but not most lemmy.ml users. Just read the other replies here.
"I don't like people grouping me in with actions of others"
Proceeds to complain about a group of people as a whole.
To be fair, .ml is a small group, and you’re literally all like that, to a person.
I'm not from .ml, just pointing out the irony.
Lol, ok sorry. I don’t blame you for wanting to make that clear.
Americans are a small group of people in terms of the entire planet.
And they (we) are also “literally all like that, to a person” as Americans
It really is that easy, see? Clarified
Americans love to scapegoat trump as if genocide isn't bipartisan policy
As if genocide wasn’t a formative policy of the United States itself.
If you collectively (and thus, somewhat personally) aren't responsible then who the fuck is?
Collective punishment is dumb, just ask Palestine in regards to hamas
Settle down now, people are saying shit about y'all on the internet, not quite what's happening to Palestinians is it.
People also say that we deserve Trump and we are responsible for the genocide in Palestine if we criticize the dems. Collective punishment is a through line for our systems to justify its actions.
I would say it's more annoying to be genocided by American bombs.
Funny that you think civilians being bombarded is bad now, but in other threads about other countries being bombarded, you advocate for them to lay down arms and surrender to the people doing the bombing. How's Gaza different?
I advocate for what the majority of the people fighting want, lmao. That's quite obvious, I thought!
Blame Trump, Hegseth, and the people who voted for Trump.
Oh yeah? Anybody else we wanna add to the list?