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For those who were blessedly unaware of Benjamin Hammond Haggerty’s existence, like me, a refresher.

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Haggerty performs (checks notes) rap music under the name “Macklemore.” He grew up in a Seattle neighbourhood where homes routinely fetch around $2 million (Cdn.). He went to one high school where the median household income was about $200,000 a year.

Coincidentally, the high school Macklemore attended has been sued at least twice for Jewish students being terrorized by others. According to one of the lawsuits, 20 students chased a female student, surrounded her and starting screaming threats and antisemitic epithets.

The lawsuit came with photos of the school, replete with swastikas on walls, and accounts of students declaring: “Hitler’s plan should have worked,” “I hate Jews” and urging the student to kill herself for being Jewish. She was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Out of this impoverished, tolerant environment came Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, who took the name “Macklemore” from an art project he did back in his high school, which was seemingly around the time that his brain seemingly stopped developing.

One of his songs is called Wing$, about some........

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