Is this guy even for real? Kanye West is facing fresh criticism after saying “I like Hitler” as he repeated antisemitic tropes while being interviewed by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Here’s what you need to know.
The rapper, who has legally changed his name to Ye, made the comments after Jones said that he did not deserve to be “demonised” by people calling him a “Nazi.”
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“I see good things about Hitler also,” replied Ye, who was wearing a black hood over his face in the studio. Hours after the Infowars show aired, Ye was suspended from Twitter when he posted a photo of a swastika merged with the Star of David – just two weeks after being reinstated. To Jones, he claimed to “love everyone” before repeating antisemitic conspiracy theories during the InfoWars outlet’s interview. Ye added: “I am done with the classifications. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table – especially Hitler.”
“The Nazis, in my view, were thugs that shut people down and did a lot of really bad things,” he said, to which Ye appeared to reply: “But they did good things too, we are going to stop dissing the Nazis all the time.”
The comments sparked an immediate backlash on social media over Ye’s apparent defence of Hitler, who oversaw the systematic murder of six million Jewish people during the Holocaust. Frozen star Josh Gad said: “It’s not what Kanye West says that scares me. It’s that he has 30 million followers who listen to his insanity on top of a cheerleader in the form of the current owner of this platform.”
American writer Touré branded Ye’s comments as “disgusting”, saying his previous diagnosis with bipolar disorder should not be used as an excuse to defend them. “This isn’t about mental illness,” he tweeted. “Stop defending Kanye or having sympathy for him because he’s bipolar or something. His virulent and repeated antisemitism isn’t tied to that.”
It had only been two weeks since the rapper was allowed back onto Twitter, having been suspended over previous antisemitic comments shortly before new owner Elon Musk‘s takeover.
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