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Originally posted by MissBreakaway
I wonder why so many people hate Macklemore. Gays always cry that no straight person cares for them. And here is someone who does, a white, straight guy who cares about homophobia and racism...and he is still hated for it. And that's why so many people think "I'll just shut up on issues that don't concern me, I'll get blamed anyways". I agree that it came across too much at the Grammys. I can't tell if he used his gay marriage support for marketing purposes, and if he did, then forget everything I posted above. But this is about principles. About the fact that he was already hated before the Grammys. And it's just hypocritical.
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Some just think that he's just using it as like you said a marketing ploy, which he may or may not be, but to me it's like there's a fine line between actually supporting it and using it for personal gain when it comes to things like this. If he wasn't gaining anything from it, then I don't think people would hate him as much, but he is gaining, along with more hate, more money so it's kind of a slippery slope. But in regards to him apologizing to Kendrick, I don't think he should have done that because like someone else already said, all he's doing is putting down his own work and all the support millions of people have given him, so he should have just accepted the award and called it a night.