Kanye West continues to face backlash over his antisemitic feedback, this time being condemned by SAG-AFTRA — the very guild he’s a member of.
On Friday (December 9), the union (higher generally known as the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) issued a press release on Ye’s habits and mentioned it doesn’t condone his feedback in regards to the Jewish group.
“SAG-AFTRA abhors and condemns the antisemitic statements being made by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West,” the assertion started. “The use of anti-semitic imagery and tropes by high profile individuals on social media and elsewhere is not harmless ranting. It is ignorant, hateful and has real-world consequences. The tired debunked stereotypes peddled by Ye and others only serve to further divide us as a country and debase us as a society.”
It continued: “Hate speech and the usage of hate imagery is commonly a precursor to violence. The normalization and mainstreaming of antisemitic and racist views has already resulted in an increase in violence towards Jewish folks and organizations on this nation and elsewhere.
“Such viewpoints and statements are unacceptable by anyone and SAG-AFTRA stands with and supports the Jewish community in fighting against prejudice, hate speech and threats of violence from any source.”
SAG-AFTRA concluded: “You need only look back less than a century to see evidence of what happens when antisemitic ideas are allowed to proliferate unchecked. We say, never again.”
The newest condemnation of Kanye West comes on the heels of him having his honorary diploma stripped by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
“The School of the Art Institute of Chicago condemns and repudiates Kanye West’s (now known as Ye) anti-Black, antisemitic, racist, and dangerous statements, particularly those directed at Black and Jewish communities,” SAIC said in a statement. “Ye’s actions do not align with SAIC’s mission and values, and we’ve rescinded his honorary degree.”
The transfer is available in response to a petition created by a bunch of scholars calling on SAIC President Elissa Tenny to rescind Kanye’s honorary diploma. The petition reportedly had over 4,000 signatures as of earlier this week.
Kanye West was not too long ago banned from Twitter for a second time after he shared a photograph of a swastika contained in the Star of David, an emblem of the Jewish religion. Despite contemplating himself a “free speech absolutist,” Twitter proprietor Elon Musk introduced that Ye’s tweet violated the corporate’s insurance policies.
“I tried my best,” Musk tweeted in response to a fan asking him to “fix” Kanye. “Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.”
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Ye additionally acquired a ton of backlash for repeatedly exhibiting like to Hitler throughout a current look on InfoWars the place he thanked the previous German chief for creating the trendy microphone and inter-state freeway system.
“Well, I see good things about Hitler also,” Kanye mentioned. “I love everyone and Jewish people are not gonna tell me, you can love 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, and this guy who invented highways, who invented the very microphone I use as a musician, you can’t say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I’m done with that.”
He continued: “I’m done with the classification. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
Ye then doubled down on his love for Hitler in an interview with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes in Los Angeles. Ye demanded that Jewish folks forgive the previous German chief, who was answerable for the mass homicide of over six million Jews through the Holocaust, telling them they need to simply “let it go.”
Yeezy returned to the music scene within the midst of the chaos on Wednesday (December 7) to launch a tune tentatively titled “Someday We’ll All Be Free,” which closely samples the Donny Hathaway hit of the identical identify.
The soulful monitor references his notorious “Death Con 3” tweet and was faraway from Instagram hours after he posted it.
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