Xavier Dolan
Role at the time: Filmmaker, commenting beneath Macklemore’s statement
Defended or excused
Statement summary
Xavier Dolan praised Macklemore’s statement and said the matter was not about antisemitism.
“This is probably the simplest yet most complete and eloquent distillation of exactly what ‘this’ is about — and of what it isn’t about, and never will be: antisemitism.”
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Just Jared collects comments left beneath Macklemore’s September 14 Instagram statement and quotes them individually across a multi-page round-up. The comments themselves were not read from the post, whose thread runs to tens of thousands of entries; each quotation here rests on this outlet’s transcription.
Why we used this label
Relative to Macklemore’s MetLife speech and his removal, Dolan endorses Macklemore’s account and expressly rejects the antisemitism characterisation that other speakers in this case advance. That is an evaluation of the dispute, not only praise of the person.