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Kanye West sued, dropped by talent agency and retail platform over antisemitic slurs
(www.theguardian.com)
He's really and truly lost it. Was bad before, but this.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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Give him a one way ticket to birkenau and see if he can feel more at home
That guy had a talent agent? Any port in the storm I guess.
May his future be lit by the bridges he's burned.
Never heard that before... it's very dark, but good.
Why is this guy still a thing? He dropped relevance in 2009
I suppose this is exactly why..
Yup, he's craving attention
Yeah, I'm sure theyre all just absolutely shocked Kanye doubled down on the Nazi shit yet again.
Shopify when this happened: No comment.
Shopify after blowback: This is an abhorrent abuse of our policies! We are all adither!
In conclusion: Fuck Shopify. And obligatory fuck ICE.
Actually they fully allow the sale of explicit Nazi merch at Shopify. They just came up with a vaguely plausible excuse to get rid of Kanye's store specifically. The execs at Shopify are outspoken extreme right wingers. These are guys get along well with the Proud Boys (which is considered a terrorist group in Canada).
He still had a TA after the last nonsense? Who is that TA and wtf is wrong with them?
Money. Money is what was wrong with them.
Good riddance.
Let this be his only legacy.
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?
I thought that kind of attitude was normal to have. I don't think my literally insane coworker is an evil person just because the voices in his head tell him to be racist
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Shopify only dropped him because they didn't think he'd actually ship the swastika shirts, not because he was selling the swastika shirts.
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I have some bad news for Yeezy. Nazis ~~weren't~~ aren't very fond of brown people either.
Forgive me if I have misunderstood something obvious, but wouldn't he be considered black?
Or the mentally ill...
Which is really ironic if you consider sociopathy to be a mental illness.
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Yeah, I'm not sure exactly where he thinks he fits in Hitler's idea of the übermensch.
Unter it
I reported yeezy.com for being in violation of GoDaddy's Terms Of Use.
Doubt it was me that caused any of this, but we can all do our part 😊
It says "This store is unavailable" which means it's probably not a DNS or webserver block and still uses the shop software to serve the page. So it's most likely a Shopify block.
Welp here's hoping he loses the domain next.
Let's not forget the first time he got banned from Twitter when he put "the Jews" on "deathcon 5." This guy is broken. I hope he can get some help.
He subscribes to the black hebrew conspiracy theory so to him, jews aren't the real israelites, they stole it all from the original israelites, who were all black.
It's completely nuts and the cult has killed people before, including... MLK's mother
The only thing that amazed me about this is that he had a “talent agent”.
Yes, I too am shocked that one of the most successful musicians of the century had a “talent agent.”
The guy is a piece of shit but this is such an asinine comment. The only shocking part is he got dropped in the first place, considering he still somehow manages to make money hand over fist anytime he releases some half-finished album these days. The talent agencies will tolerate a hell of a lot as long as the money keeps flowing.
Dude has been out of it for years, and hasn’t put out anything of note during that time. He’s already made statements that should have alerted any reputable talent agency to stay the fuck away.
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Every time I see shit like this, where it’s framed as “THIS HORRIBLE THING IS NOW HAPPENING TO THIS RICH PERSON AND THEYRE SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS” I’m always like
So what?
They’re still billionaires. They’re still incredibly rich. There’s nothing you can actually do to these people with shit like this. We’re far past the “we can just not support their company” or the “we can just not vote for them and ruin their life” stage of this, gang.
Yup. The time for alternative actions is now.
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