Macklemore Pledges His Tour Earnings After Being Dropped From the Tour
Macklemore committed to donate his net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour after he was dropped from it for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage at MetLife Stadium, PBS NewsHour reports. The arrangement is unusual in a specific way: the appearances stop, but the money he would have taken from them does not stay with him. Two decisions are tangled together here — the tour's decision to remove him, and his decision about where the proceeds go — and only the second one was his to make.
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The pledge is the part with staying power. Being dropped is an event; deciding where the earnings go is a position, and positions outlast news cycles.
The position only exists because of the event. Without the dismissal there is no pledge to make, so the two are one story rather than a cause and its sequel.