Kanye West Appears in Mask on December 1st on Infowars.com
However, Ye’s public anti-Semitism stance was amplified as a result of the cooperation, deceit, and/or omission of organizations and individuals that enabled him to publicly spread anti-Semitism.
Enablers for platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. Conservative news outlets, including Fox News.and the influential right-wing Jones, Tim Poole, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Donald Trump.
Kanye right leaning
Ye’s leaning toward right-wing politics began in 2018. That year, he openly praised Trump and the right-wing media his performer Candice He Owens, saying, “It sounds like a choice. Repeatedly wearing a red Trump ‘MAGA’ cap in public, he was criticized by the then-President.” Invited to the Oval Office.
The context surrounding Ye’s acceptance of rights includes a string of personal crises, including widely reported mental health issues since her hospitalization in 2016, and the end of her marriage to Kim Kardashian in 2021. increase.
In 2020, Ye launched an outlandish presidential campaign that seems to have abandoned Trumpism in favor of promoting principles related to Christian democracy. Although he was clearly not a far-right platformer, Ye’s pledges included opposition to abortion rights. He was reportedly helped by a “network of Republican operatives” to secure his 0.04% of the national vote.
But by late 2022, he had embraced the blatant politics of anti-Semitism and extremism.
At his fashion show in Paris on Oct. 3, Ye appeared alongside right-wing media figure Owens, both wearing sports T-shirts emblazoned with “WHITE LIVES MATTER.” .
“White Lives Matter” is a popular slogan among some white supremacists and has been circulated since 2015 as a racist reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Shortly after the Paris appearance, Ye posted on Instagram, “We all know Black Lives Matter was a scam. It’s over. You’re welcome.”
Conservatives Praise Kanye, Wipe Out His Anti-Semitism
In the wake of this stunt, Ye was admired by conservatives, including Republicans in Congress and right-wing media personalities.
In a tweet on October 6, the Republican House Judiciary Committee member’s official Twitter account posted: Elon. Trump,” posted online for weeks, delete silently On Dec. 1, following Ye’s Alex Jones appearance.
Also on October 6, West recorded an interview with his first significant enabler, Tucker Carlson. Fox his news host introduced the interview with an angry denunciation of Ye’s critics, reducing their criticism to mental health issues.
“His idea enemies have dismissed West as a psychotic for years,” Carlson said in a monologue, noting that such accusations “often sway him in the battle for influence over the minds of America’s youth.” It was used as ammunition against And the battle is fierce. ”
(This defense echoed the August 2020 segment, in which Carlson praised Kanye’s presidential campaign stance on abortion and said he was “as honest, truthful, and as honest as Kanye West” on “conservative core issues.” No one has an effective national program,” and the “Left” could only respond with “ad hominem” attacks.)
In October, Carlson asked viewers: See what I’m about to show you and judge for yourself. ”
However, part of the transcript of the interview, which was edited and later leaked to reporters, showed just how selective Carlson’s presentation was.
Footage that viewers weren’t allowed to see showed Ye bizarre, such as a “professional actor” masquerading as a fake child who was “placed in my house to sexualize my child.” It showed that I was making a strong claim.
It was also revealed that he made statements that were indicted for anti-Semitism.At one point, he said Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was ‘a known eugenicist’ [sic]Worked with the Ku Klux Klan “to control the Jewish population.” “When I say Jews, I mean the 12 Lost Tribes of Judah, the Blood of Christ, who the people known as the Negroes really are.”
In fact, Sanger was a supporter of the eugenics movement, a position condemned by the organization she founded, as was her 1926 speech to the female sub-branch of the Ku Klux Klan. There is no evidence of wider cooperation between Sanger and Klan.
However, the claim that blacks are “the 12 lost tribes of Judah” broadly resembles the Israelite belief of black Hebrews that African Americans descended from the biblical Israelites. A small group of Hebrew Israelis base these beliefs on anti-Semitic abuses and attacks on Jews.
Ye’s other digressions in the discarded portion of the interview – including claims that Jews “do not have the ability to build anything for themselves” and have the ability to “financially engineer” – A version he believed was entwined with anti-Semitism.
Carlson sought to fill this material to hype Kanye as a right-wing thought leader, but Ye’s own words and actions undermined that misdirection in the days that followed. rice field.
Kanye’s anti-Semitism escalates
By October, Yeh seemed to have lost interest in hiding his anti-Semitic beliefs, with several platforms and media outlets refusing to host his thoughts.
On Oct. 7, Ye’s Instagram account was locked after promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on the platform. This appeared to claim that her fellow musician, his Sean “Diddy” Combs, was controlled by Jews. The next day, Ye returned to his Twitter for the first time in about two years, posting a tweet that read, “Going to Descon 3.” [sic]” About the Jew, his Twitter account was also temporarily locked.
As Ye’s public anti-Semitic expressions became more vociferous, some people who recorded interviews with him during this period reported, albeit sometimes belatedly, his hate speech. We chose not to amplify the
On October 11, the producers of the podcast “The Shop” featuring LeBron James announced that they would not be releasing an episode featuring Ye because he took the opportunity to “repeate hate speech and very dangerous stereotypes.” did.
On October 16th, he appeared on an episode of the “Drink Champs” podcast. Ye spoke of his “anti-Semitic vibe,” denounced the “Jewish media,” and reiterated claims made by Candice Owens in a documentary that attributed George Floyd’s murder to a fentanyl overdose. The episode was published, but was removed from the internet in just one day.
The episode’s late retraction did not prevent the neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League from capitalizing on Ye’s remarks. On October 22, they held a banner reading “Kanye is right about Jews” at a protest they organized in Los Angeles.
According to media reports in late October, Ye had a long history of expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler to his employees and entourage and wanted to name his 2018 album. Hitler(The release was eventually titled yes.)
However, Yeh’s public comments, the use of his statements by neo-Nazis, and the exposure of his long-standing Nazi sympathies have led social media companies and right-wing influencers to allow him to continue spreading anti-Semitic hatred. In fact, Ye used his views to gain even more attention the following month.
Kanye was platformed and embraced by the Far Right
November saw a spate of high-profile conferences and events, with the backing of big tech companies and right-wing influencers, allowing Ye to spread his hateful message directly to audiences around the world.
On Nov. 22, Ye dined at Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump, bringing along Nick Fuentes and “alt-right” washout Milo Yiannopoulos. The dinner, which took place at a time when some Republicans were decrying Trump and his candidate’s extremist stance over their lackluster midterm elections, brought fresh criticism of the former president. rice field.
Ye, Fuentes and Yiannopoulos squeezed the opportunity to grab attention as Trump struggled to explain why he agreed to dine with the man.
Fuentes, meanwhile, was reportedly hired to join Ye’s staff Yiannopoulos for the 2024 election campaign days after dinner. (Although Fuentes is still on staff at Ye, he broadcast a livestream from the musician’s Los Angeles headquarters last Friday night.)
Despite Ye’s highly overt anti-Semitic agitation, Fuentes’ record as white supremacist propaganda, and Yiannopoulos’ own history as a far-right provocateur, all three were skeptical of Trump’s dinner party. A week later, I was invited to appear on beanie-‘s YouTube channel, which has 1.33 million subscribers. Clothed right-wing social media performer Tim Poole.
Ye walked out of the interview within minutes after Poole seemed reluctant to openly endorse the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory Ye was detailing on live. Nevertheless, according to YouTube stats, Pool split the truncated interview into a series of videos, and in total he received well over half a million views.
On air, Poole was able to collect Super Chat payments from viewers for interviews, profiting from the spectacle of Ye’s anti-Semitic meltdown. According to analysis by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), the stream raised about $7,258 from his 583 paid Super Chat payments, Pool earned his $5,081, and YouTube platformed Ye’s anti-Semitism. cut his $2,177 to do so.
ISD’s analysis found that 54 of these comments (totaling $456.49 for the host) promoted anti-Semitism.
ISD analyst Ciaran O’Connor said in an email to Hatewatch that Super Chats on Pool’s stream “spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, defend Holocaust denier, and promote anti-Semitic propaganda. It was used to promote explicit and implicit forms of anti-Semitism, including comments.”
“Ye’s efforts are helping to mainstream anti-Semitism,” O’Connor wrote, adding, “It is imperative that technology companies take a firm stance to limit the scope of these beliefs.” Added. Content that clearly violates the platform’s own community guidelines. ”
YouTube keeps Pool’s videos on the site even though it banned Fuentes for hate speech on his channel in January 2020, despite the blatant anti-Semitism broadcast in an interview allowed.
Hatewatch previously reported that YouTube is making tens of thousands of dollars from its share of Pool’s Super Chat payouts.
After his already infamous Infowars interview, Ye continued to send anti-Semitic messages to his Twitter account. Some of the tweets from this account appear to be influenced by Fuentes, with a December 1st tweet containing the slogan “Christ is King”, which Fuentes uses in his propaganda, along with his It contained a link to the cozy.tv site.
After allowing Ye and his pals to post hateful propaganda while appearing on the Poole and Jones show, Elon Musk personally, belatedly and seemingly arbitrarily, announced Thursday’s Suspended Ye’s account late at night. Musk said the ban was a result of Ye tweeting an image of the swastika inside the Jewish Star of David, but it was also used to promote anti-Semitic screeds and white supremacist stream channels. It didn’t explain how symbols are worse than using Twitter.
Like YouTube, Fox News and Infowars, Musk allows Ye and his far-right allies to enjoy access to his platform, allowing millions of viewers to share his anti-Semitic hatred and conspiracies. made available for discussion.
Photographic illustrations of Alex Jones (left to right), Kanye West and Tim Pool by SPLC. (Source photo from Alamy)