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Macklemore blames Jewish NFL owner Robert Kraft for getting kicked off Ed Sheeran tour (nypost.com)
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Macklemore claimed Monday the Jewish NFL owner Robert Kraft pressured Ed Sheeran to drop him from his tour after pro-Palestinian elements of his show.

“Ed told me Robert Kraft called him,” Macklemore wrote on X Monday. “We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium.”

“Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues,” he added.

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[–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

If anyone still believes in the fairy tale of free speech under capitalism, here is yet another example of why that's bullshit. Capitalists own everything, they get to set the rules since it's their private property, and the artists that made it big by being spineless will collaborate with them on closing the mouth of any real artist in their tour because the capitalists have a metric fuckton of money that they will lose out on if they don't.

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