Kanye West has been sued and dropped by his talent agency after he posted a stream of antisemitic abuse, put T-shirts with a swastika on sale in his online shop, and was alleged to have described himself as Hitler to a Jewish employee.
Last week West, also known as Ye, wrote a barrage of antisemitic posts on X including, “I’m a Nazi … I love Hitler”.
The swastika T-shirt was placed for sale on the website of his fashion brand Yeezy, with the product line “HH-01”, assumed to be code for “Heil Hitler”.
Shopify, the company that provided the online platform for Yeezy, has now taken the store offline, stating: “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms.”
I worked with someone who defended Kanye for like a year after he went publicly apeshit. Probably up until at least 2019 when I last spoke to him on the topic. He just kept claiming that it was so unfair that Kanye was getting judged as an off-meds mentally ill person suffering. Which I would get, as long as he wasn’t hurting other people. But that’s been the motherfucker’s raison-etre for a while now.
As someone who’s out of the loop may I ask what the story is?
What I’m getting is that he’s a wealthy has been who has some unmedicated mental health problems which manifest in these spectacular public brain farts.
Is that all there is to it or is there some explanation for the antisemitism?
Would they extend anyone else dealing with untreated mental illness the same benefit?
Yeah, if you aren’t ridiculously wealthy and you start crashing out like this, you usually just lose your job and get kicked out on the street.
Being a little stinky in public is enough to get most mentally ill folks harassed by cops.
Likely. Not sure.
Well now there’s a ten dollar word if I’ve ever seen one.
Slips scrabble back to the top…
Dang I misspelled it. Raison d’etre, from French, meaning “reason for being”. Probably couldn’t use it in Scrabble.
Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do. You’re not my supervisor.
I did say probably