Long standing effects of radiation are not that bad, unless you completely obliterate absolutely everything. 200 years is more than enough time for whatever surviving ecosystem there is to recover.

Chernobyl called. Specifically, it called bullshit.

Long standing effects? You mean like what happened in Chernobyl, one of the most radioactive places on earth?

Sure, it is a radioactive wasteland. But not a brown one.

Ok.

"God, I hate when people discriminate!...especially those filthy crackers"

let it go. look at the thread. either he enjoys the victimhood so much that he doesnt like efforts to help him up, or he is trying to earn jez cred by shitting on people the writers here dont like.

Hold up, I thought the whole premise of your argument was that LGBT musicians are not attracting attention because white hetero guys like Macklemore are 'grabbing the microphone from them'? But now you've decided that actually Mary Lambert would have been perfectly capable of attracting media attention after all just…

Like...supporting the ACLU or marriage equality in Washington state?

Well, you did give me a convenient thread, ignorant slurs, a weak and unsupported opinion that insults those with a legitimate concern about LGBT/progressive representation in hip hop, and remains entirely ignorant of context or self-awareness.

To clarify, I found your argument so basically incorrect that I wished to point out the glaring hole in it. "Yeah, that one, but WHO ELSE?" isn't a defense in any real form.

No, I think what he is saying is that in order to get more white people to actually listen to non-white people (or straight people to listen to LGBT people, or men to listen to more women) we need straight, white males out there promoting those messages. They're in a position to get through to those people. A person…

C'mon, it's too early in the day for Godwin.

The Beastie Boys were also originally frat boy rock/rap, but they changed over time to be interested in a variety of music and social/political issues.

Macklemore's ACLU promo does not make me cringe. Jezebel/Gawker Media's seeming obsession with Macklemore and his failure to be the most perfect LGBT ally on the planet, that makes me cringe.

If only Jezebel would rely on talented writing and not rage baits to generate traffic to their pages...

BUT I WANT ONLY ACCREDITED VICTIMS TO VOICE CONCERNS ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS

Who made this straight, white male the Ambassador for the maligned?

I think it's a really obvious parody and its meaning is clear. Macklemore may be a privileged white straight male, but he readily acknowledges it and tries to speak out for the opressed as much as he can. Yes, opressed people need to speak up for themselves as well, but Lord, there is nothing wrong with the…

He didn't get "elected", but he wants to promote social change, and he has the media presence to matter as a spokesperson, so he is in these commercials. It really, really, REALLY, really doesn't matter that he's a straight white dude. If there was someone else who wasn't, was very big in pop culture right now, and…

I just do NOT get the Macklemore hatred. Yes, he is a straight, white man who tries to use his influence to bring about social change. We get it - he is privileged! But, I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of other influential musicians, actors, etc. out there with very similar backgrounds as Macklemore's who are…