Social media forces Macklemore to disavow his racist haircut

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“macklemore hair seems to be the chosen haircut of the racists now,” Twitter user Jon Hendren (@fart) said on Tuesday. “i call on @macklemore to get online and denounce his own haircut.”

“This fascist needs to be exposed for what he is!” complained Twitter user Andrew J. Henderson (@drewks), in a tweet minutes later. “@Macklemore is an alt-right Nazi! The haircut is undeniable proof! #Antifa #ThriftShop”

A little over an hour later, Macklemore himself — birth name Ben Haggerty — replied by saying he’d long since changed his ‘do.

“Got rid of it over a year ago,” Macklemore tweeted in reply.

A search of Twitter for “macklemore nazi haircut” finds period references to Macklemore’s once-iconic hair style in previous years as a “Nazi” style, including a tweet from comedian Kumail Nanjiani in December, “All this Nazi normalizing started with Macklemore’s haircut.”

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