Juliet Moses
Role at the time: Lawyer and commentator, speaking in a personal capacity
Condemned
Responding to
Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” speech and removal from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour
“The moral narcissism of this guy. People don’t generally pay to go to concerts (certainly not Ed Sheeran ones) to get lectured by a dropkick about geopolitics, and objecting to that doesn’t make them bad people. It’s like giving a speech about cancer at someone’s wedding and then saying well cancer is more important than your feelings and so it’s my right and duty to give a speech about cancer and if you complain about it you obviously don’t care about cancer. There are layers of logical fallacy here. As I’ve noted before, sufferers of Israel derangement syndrome think that everybody else should be as deranged as they are, and that those who are not are morally inferior.”
Why we used this label
Moses directly criticizes Macklemore’s use of the concert stage for the political speech, which is a direct condemnation of the conduct at issue.
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