Then, later that evening, Ye posted a couple of memes on Twitter while apparently bantering with Musk. One showed a photo of Musk being hosed off while swimming-to which Musk responded, “This is fine”-and another showed the swastika-embedded Star of David, being struck by lightning-to which Musk responded: “This is not.” There were immediate consequences: Ye’s previously announced plan to take ownership of the right-wing social-media platform Parler was suddenly called off. Ye also claimed his accounts have been “frozen by the Jewish banks.” When Fuentes told Jones, “I’m very pro-Putin, very pro-Russia,” Ye piped up: “I am also.” And Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities.” The Holocaust is not what happened, let’s look at the facts of that. “And Obama was not the first Black president. … And he didn’t kill 6 million Jews! That’s just factually incorrect.” “You know, it’s like he had a really cool outfit, and he was a really good architect. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table. I’m done with that! I’m done with the classifications. But this guy that invented highways, that invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can’t say out loud that this person ever did anything good. And Jewish people are not gonna tell me, you can love, um you know, us, and you can love what we’re doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we’re pushing with the pornography. “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.” “I don’t like the word evil next to Nazis.” We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time.”

It was an hour-long wade through the fever swamps of antisemitism, during which the rapper unleashed an endless embrace of neofascism:

Ye’s appearance on Infowars with Jones and his newly acquired sidekick, white nationalist Nick Fuentes, was an eye-opening manifestation of the way far-right conspiracism can drive its consumers into an abyss, both socially and career-wise. Marshals Service arrest warrant-was restored to Twitter, nearly 10 years after it had been suspended. But in the meantime, the incoming tide of antisemitic and conspiracist hatred Ye’s diatribes enable has risen another few feet, and right-wing media-including Twitter-continue to deepen it.Ĭase in point: Hours before Musk gave Ye the boot, the account of Andrew Anglin-one of the most notorious neo-Nazis in America, and the current subject of a U.S. Kanye West’s bizarre meltdown on Thursday-first, when he repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and German Nazis in a bizarre interview on Alex Jones’ Infowars show, followed by his suspension from Twitter by Elon Musk himself after posting a meme with a Star of David twisted into a swastika-will certainly reverberate for a while, and not in good ways.Īside from the immediate toxic career consequences, both for West (who mostly goes by Ye nowadays) and anyone associated with him, the supposedly mainstream conservatives who enabled the spectacle in the weeks preceding it-including Donald Trump, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, and House Republicans, not to mention Jones and YouTuber Tim Pool-will do what they always do: scurry away and pretend they had nothing to do with it.

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