Kanye West making a fool of himself again...

[ska invita]

Spaz in the news Kanye? Is that really the lyric? great self awareness.

I reckon he's read Bill Drummond on how to be a famous pop star and is just playing with us all

 

[editor]

The big ego twat is off again

Kanye West could face criminal charges over releasing a recording of a phone call West had with Taylor Swift, according to three legal experts who spoke with Gizmodo. Not only that, but West’s wife Kim Kardashian could also face charges for publishing the recording of the phone call on her Snapchat.

Last night, Kardashian took to Snapchat to publish videos of West speaking with Swift on the phone about lyrics in West’s then upcoming song “Famous.” When the song was released, Swift objected to the lyric calling her a “bitch.” Kanye and Kim’s camp said that Swift had actually approved the lyric, and released the recordings in an effort to dispute her claim. In a tweet today, Swift described the recording as having occurred “in secret,” essentially stating that it occurred without her consent.

http://gizmodo.com/experts-kanye-and-kim-could-both-be-prosecuted-over-ta-1783864863

 

[a_chap]

Good grief that explains why so many bizarre hashtags were trending on Twitter today.

I say "bizarre" because I have no idea who most of these people are or what #kimexposedtaylorpary even means. I clicked it and was none the wiser.

 

[story]

I nearly started a Kanye West‘s time is up thread but this one will do. He doesn’t deserve a whole new thread.


Spouting anti-Semitic bullshit and saying that can’t be cancelled, Adidas would never get rid of him.


Well anyway that claim aged badly for him at least.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/business/adidas-kanye-west.html

Talent agency CAA drops Ye, as film studio MRC ditches documentary because of his antisemitic remarks

Hollywood talent agency CAA dropped Ye, previously known as Kanye West, as a client.

www.cnbc.com

Kanye West is cut loose by fashion house Balenciaga after making antisemetic comments that had already got him blocked on social media

The move came after several offensive comments from Ye, including antisemitic posts that earned him suspensions from Twitter and Instagram.

fortune.com

No doubt he’ll blame “the Cabal” and the conspiracy for all this.
Wanker.


He has either apologised or refused to apologise depending on how you interpret his spoutings but either way, he has put on record some vile hateful nasty ugly dangerous unforgivable and un-retractable stuff


Defenders are saying he’s having an episode and blaming his bipolar. I’m blaming him and his bullshit brain .

He went toe-to-toe with Piers Morgan but I haven’t watched that because Piers Morgan.


I don’t care how much of a musical genius he is. The weird stalker crap he pulls around his wife is horrible but local. This current stuff is causing larger ripples and it‘s awful and dangerous.

Los Angeles freeway demonstrators seen supporting Kanye West's antisemitic comments

Photos show a small group of demonstrators with their arms raised in what appears to be the Nazi salute behind banners reading, "honk if you know" alongside "Kanye is right about the Jews."

abc7chicago.com

Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn’t Put on Air

Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about "fake children," as well as describing visions of "kinetic energy" cities sent to him by God.

www.vice.com

Kim Kardashian is offering support to Jewish people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/25/kim-kardashian-kanye-ye-antisemitism/

 

[story]

The first part of this video gives an overview.

 

[WouldBe]

He's been dumped by Adidas.

 

[two sheds]

Fairly shortly after saying on video that Adidas couldn't dump him

 

[mx wcfc]

I don't get the social media stuff, and got bored by the delivery fairly soon into that, but it seems Adidas only dropped Kanye when their share price was falling.

 

[story]

He's been dumped by Adidas.

As per the NYTimes link in my post.

 

[story]

But being dumped won’t stop the tide of antisemitism he has now unleashed.

Kanye West’s celebrity gives his brazen antisemitism a more toxic power, reach

Kanye West was dropped by Adidas and his talent agency, after 'brazen' and 'unapologetic' antisemitic rhetoric.

www.latimes.com

Beverly Hills police investigating antisemitic flyers in the area

Authorities in Beverly Hills are investigating antisemitic flyers that they say were dispersed in the area overnight.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[story]

I don't get the social media stuff, and got bored by the delivery fairly soon into that, but it seems Adidas only dropped Kanye when their share price was falling.

I provided a couple of different types of media cos some people prefer to read, some people prefer the SM delivery.

Whatever you prefer, I think this is a big story. Not because of Kanye West especially (fuck im quite frankly) but because of what he has now triggered.

 

[mx wcfc]

I provided a couple of different types of media cos some people prefer to read, some people prefer the SM delivery.

Whatever you prefer, I think this is a big story. Not because of Kanye West especially (fuck im quite frankly) but because of what he has now triggered.

Yeah, I get that. My comment wasn't against you.

What he has spouted is really dangerous. I was aware of the story a few days ago. He has clearly lost it. I don't care about that, But the impact is a real issue. I am now interested in how the people who buy his records/streams react and how the far right react. It certainly ain't funny either way.

 

[story]

Yeah, I get that. My comment wasn't against you.

What he has spouted is really dangerous. I was aware of the story a few days ago. He has clearly lost it. I don't care about that, But the impact is a real issue. I am now interested in how the people who buy his records/streams react and how the far right react. It certainly ain't funny either way.

Exactly. I too picked up on the story a couple of days ago but was hanging on to some hope that he would be ignored or sidelined or just laughed at and dismissed. But he’s so huge and his reach is so wide that I’ve kept an eye on it, and of course it’s playing out now.

It‘s the way it’s emboldened neo nazis to hang out banners and distribute flyers and so forth that’s the real story here. Who gives a fuck if his partners drop him. It’s good that their shares dropped, it’s bad that they didn’t bother dropping him til that happened. but that stuff is fairly predicatable. Increasing the incidence and power of antisemitism in other people, widening the scope of hate, that’s the thing to watch.

Along with all the other stuff that’s going on over there (including vigilantes intimidating voters at ballot drop boxes in Marocopa County this week) , I’m worried.

 

[a_chap]

I provided a couple of different types of media cos some people prefer to read, some people prefer the SM delivery.

Writing today's news on a lash?

 

[frogwoman]

Too much conspiracy shit going around about this with people who should know better tbh

 

[WouldBe]

As per the NYTimes link in my post.

I thought that said they were considering dumping him?

They have now definitely dumped him.

 

[Aladdin]

His own talent agency has dropped him.

"The rapper’s longtime talent agency CAA has stopped representing the artist in the past month, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Agency heads Ari Emanuel of Endeavor, Bob Gersh and UTA’s Jeremy Zimmer have all called for Hollywood companies to sever working relationships with West. “We can’t support hate speech, bigotry or antisemitism. Please support the boycott of Kanye West,” Zimmer wrote in a company-wide email."

Kanye West: industry backlash continues as Kim Kardashian speaks out

Antisemitic comments from US rapper have led to the shelving of a finished documentary and major talent agency CAA cutting ties as ex-wife calls hate speech ‘never ok’

www.theguardian.com

 

[bimble]

Too much conspiracy shit going around about this with people who should know better tbh

what sort of thing?

 

[frogwoman]

what sort of thing?

How 'convenient' it is that he's now turned towards antisemitism because his other rants were embarrassing BLM and the political class

 

[killer b]

I don't really understand what that means. Convenient for who?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Who'd have thought that a Trump supporter who wears a 'white lives matter' shirt would be a racist piece of shit?

 

[frogwoman]

I don't really understand what that means. Convenient for who?

Convenient for the ruling class I guess. I don't understand what it means either.

 

[story]

He has been chatting shit for a while but no one has curbed him or spoken up to him so he’s gotten worse and worse.

He hasn’t quite got to holocaust denial but he’s on the way. Yesterday “one of my Jewish friends” invited him to visit the holocaust memorial museum in LA but he refused, saying that the holocaust was ongoing, that the most dangerous place for Black people is in their mother’s womb, that family planning is a worse holocaust.

He’s also saying that as an African-American he’s in fact a Jew, as distinct from Jewish. This is Twelve Tribes bullshit.

And he’s still saying he intends to stand for president in 2024.

 

[two sheds]

I read that the holocaust memorial museum has since received threats and abuse for that.

 

[story]

There’s also the problem of confirmation bias going on here. He’s saying “of course I’m getting cancelled by the Jewish media, and that’s proves I’m right”.





Just yesterday someone was telling me about how George Soros owns everything and pays for all the bad things And and finances all the conspiracies that are happening. When I said “Careful you’re getting into antisemitism here, this is conspiracy theory stuff” he disagreed and disengaged,

 

[story]

I read that the holocaust memorial museum has since received threats and abuse for that.

Yes, directly following West’s refusal to go and him talking publicly about his reasons why.

Abortion clinics will also be targeted by people who have been emboldened by Kanye West.

 

[bimble]

I find this whole thing quite confusing. Can't take his remarks much to heart because of knowing that a few weeks ago he was on about slavery being 'a choice', so he's obviously not, you know, ok.
Think the impact of his rants must be limited by this, by everyone knowing he was in white lives matter t-shirts last week and is not very well. I mean who would be inspired by these rants who wasn't there already, i suspect not many. idk. Just a sad mess.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Those of us in the shoe trade were horrified when he named and shamed Adidas employees with photos on his Instagram. He has crazy fans and it must’ve been frightening for those he attacked, none of them were public figures either. That had to be a breach of contract without any of the rest of it and I predict they got ready to bin him from then. They’re a corporation, a slow moving beast so of course it took a few weeks.. He only had a licensing deal and didn’t own any of the IP, no design rights, nothing. He also spouted a lot of other crap that told me he knew precisely nothing about how our trade works and was making stuff up. It was just another celeb licensing deal. No one in the trade will touch him now. He’s a twat, a conspiraloon racist twat and he’s gonna end up with nowt.

 

[skyscraper101]

What I want to know is, how has it taken so long for all these brands to dump him. He's been a massive bellend for years. And most of his music is shit.

 

[story]

I find this whole thing quite confusing. Can't take his remarks much to heart because of knowing that a few weeks ago he was on about slavery being 'a choice', so he's obviously not, you know, ok.
Think the impact of his rants must be limited by this, by everyone knowing he was in white lives matter t-shirts last week and is not very well. I mean who would be inspired by these rants who wasn't there already, i suspect not many. idk. Just a sad mess.

Your wrong, I’m afraid and sorry to say.

He’s hugely influential.
The reason you’ve not seen much traction arise from his nonsense before is not because he’s been dismissed and ignored but because his targets have been less vulnerable, or less attended to.


His stuff about slavery being a choice was a very big deal in the Black community but he was also seen as empowering of Black people because he was so powerful himself. There was a reluctance to tear him down because of that. And it wasn’t directly supporting white racism*. Wearing that T-shirt recently was a dick move and he has lost face with many African Americans and other Black people as a result because it strengthens the white supremacist voice, it’s more directly racist.




*eta
I want to clarify this.
It is a hideous and egregious and racist thing to say and it does support racism and racist tropes. But at the time he said this, it was generally received as a weird mad thing to say, something that seemed to arise from his own thought processes rather than something that actual active public facing racists say (although watch them now start saying it more openly. And if he’s not said it yet, he’ll soon be saying the same thing about Jewish victims of the Holocaust) . Wearing the T-shirt is different inasmuch as it is actively pushing back against anti-racism and is recognised by racist and anti-racists as a central fulcrum point.