While Ye is certainly responsible for his own words and actions, outrage has centered not only on him, but also on those who have been pushing and enabling his increasingly disturbing comments. Ye also talked about his reconciliation with Drake but acknowledged that he potentially started a new beef by calling out Diddy and Meek Mill, accusing both rappers of being “fake hard niggas.” Diddy, in particular, is being attacked after privately reaching out to Ye over the “White Lives Matter” controversy in text messages that Ye then leaked on social media. He made strange references to his friend, recently deceased fashion designer Virgil Abloh, comparing him to Floyd and implying that his death was not really due to cancer. Ye also name-dropped a number of other former associates in questionable ways. Ye also yet again brought up Pete Davidson, who was the target of multiple threats from Ye when Davidson dated Kim Kardashian earlier this year. He also made comments and innuendo about the sex lives of Kim and other members of the Kardashian family. He repeated his grievances against Kim regarding access to their four children and her lack of support for his failed 2020 presidential campaign. Ye also used his Drink Champs appearance to continue hurling attacks against ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her family. When he instead appeared this weekend on N.O.R.E.’s Drink Champs podcast, Ye doubled down on these remarks, trotting out old stereotypes about Jewish control of the media and entertainment industry.Īs the Anti-Defamation League has pointed out, these stereotypes have been used for decades to demonize Jewish people, and Ye’s recent string of appearances has already led to others using his comments to paint Jews as “enemies,” which runs the risk of inciting antisemitic violence.įurthermore, Ye’s claims about Black people being Jewish have been used in the past by other groups to cover their own antisemitism and to discredit Jewish people as “imposters” or “fake Jews,” with potentially dangerous repercussions.
These comments have resulted in him recently having his Instagram and Twitter accounts restricted, and his recent appearance on Lebron James’ The Shop was shelved due to Ye engaging in “more hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes.”
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While Ye has occasionally made questionable comments about Jewish people in the past, in recent weeks he has ventured into full antisemitic stereotypes. Lee Merritt OctoRehashing old antisemitic stereotypes
While one cannot defame the dead, the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanye’s false statements about the manner of his death.Ĭlaiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd family’s fight. In light of Ye reviving this discredited theory - which claims that Floyd coincidentally died of an overdose just as he was being pinned down by Chauvin - the Floyd family has threatened to sue Ye for his false and harmful statements. The fentanyl theory was raised by Chauvin’s defense team in his murder trial, but it was discredited by medical experts who testified that Floyd’s death was not consistent with a fentanyl overdose and that it was instead caused by Chauvin cutting off the oxygen supply to Floyd’s brain. Owens, who has made a name for herself as a far-right Black conservative, also appeared with Ye at his controversial fashion show, wearing a White Lives Matter shirt alongside him. Ye’s overdose theory and the idea that Chauvin’s “knee wasn’t even on his neck like that ” come from a “ documentary” created by right-wing pundit Candace Owens. Perhaps the most controversial moment in Ye’s Drink Champs appearance came when he repeated debunked theories that George Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose rather than the actions of former officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of Floyd’s murder in 2021 and subsequently pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights. Reviving debunked accusations against George Floyd
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