From The Hollywood Reporter · Ethan Millman · · 1m 20s
Pink answers the backlash over her Macklemore repost
Pink shared someone else's words about Macklemore and Palestine, then spent Friday explaining which parts were actually hers.
In brief
Pink shared someone else's words about Macklemore and Palestine, then spent Friday explaining which parts were actually hers. A repost reads as an endorsement of every word in it, which is why Pink had to come back and say the thing in her own voice. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
The repost that started it
Pink shared a post attacking Macklemore over his pro-Palestine comments and calling for him to be dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour. The backlash was immediate.
Friday, she answered
On Instagram she posted a long statement addressing the criticism directly, rather than quietly deleting the share and waiting it out.
Not her words
She said the post she amplified used language she did not write and would not have picked herself.
“said things in words I didn't write, and I wouldn't have chosen all of them”
Judged on her own terms
Her reason for speaking up was simple: own the position, in her own phrasing, instead of carrying someone else's.
“I'd rather be disagreed with for what I actually said than hated for what anybody else wrote”
Born a Jew
Pink wrote that she did not choose being Jewish and has never hidden it, framing the week as standing up for her own people.
“I was born a Jew. I didn't pick it, and I've never hidden it”
Filling in the blanks herself
She argued that a single repost and the word "Jew" were enough for strangers to decide what she believed, without checking anything she had ever said or done.
“But let me fill it in… myself.”
What it means
A repost reads as an endorsement of every word in it, which is why Pink had to come back and say the thing in her own voice.
