Khloé Kardashian and Kim Kardashian condemned Kanye West‘s antisemitic feedback after he confronted public backlash.
During a brand new episode of The Kardashians, which aired on Thursday, July 6, Kim, 42, mentioned her ex-husband’s disparaging statements concerning the Jewish neighborhood — and her response.
“I feel so bad for him. I don’t even think he feels bad for himself. I don’t even know if he knows how. I just feel so bad,” the Skims founder instructed Khloé, 39, in footage which was filmed in October 2022. “He’ll probably go off on me [if I reach out]. But then I feel guilty that I posted something in support of the Jewish community and then people dropped him today and I’m like, SINGLE QUOTE ‘Is that my fault, that I posted that? Did that push them and I should I have just kept quiet but I’m vocal about everything else?’ I never know what to do.”
The rapper, 46, raised eyebrows earlier that month after posting about “going death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE” in a Twitter storm. “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also,” he added on the time. “You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
Kim rapidly broke her silence about Kanye’s social media posts, tweeting in October 2022, “Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”
After Kanye’s feedback made headlines, his social media platforms have been quickly restricted and he was dropped by a number of manufacturers.
In the episode, the aspiring lawyer admitted she felt conflicted about talking out in opposition to Kanye. “The whole situation is sad and I don’t know how to emotionally manage it. I’m conflicted because I don’t ever want jump in and be part of a downfall of the father of my kids,” Kim, who shares daughters North, 9, and Chicago, 5, and sons Saint, 7, and Psalm, 4, with the songwriter, added on her Hulu sequence.
Khloé, for her half, reminded her sister to not enable Kanye’s “gravely irresponsible” actions to have an effect on her.
“Kim, every single day I feel bad about [my ex-husband] Lamar [Odom]. Every single day. I feel bad about Tristan [Thomspon] not being on a team right now. Lamar is forever going [to be] remembered as a drug user,” the Good American cofounder mentioned whereas referring to her ex-husband’s struggles over time. “These are Kanye’s things but that doesn’t mean that we don’t feel bad about it.”
Khloé beforehand known as Kanye out on social media after he threw shade at her household. In October 2022, the style designer introduced up his points with Kim’s family members whereas defending his Yeezy season 9 present — throughout which he wrote a T-shirt proclaiming “White Lives Matter.”
“So why did everyone feel so free to attack me about my T-shirt. But Candace Owens was the only public figure to say that it was wrong for the Kardashians to keep me from seeing my daughter,” he wrote by way of Instagram on the time, referring to his previous claims he wasn’t invited to his daughter’s birthday celebration. “Or we just chime in when we want to tear a Black man down for actually having a political opinion.”
Kanye added: “And for all audience so outraged about my T-shirt. Where was you when I couldn’t see my kids. I went public in hope of public support at the time.”
In response, Khloé slammed the musician’s accusations within the feedback part. “Ye, I love you. I don’t want to do this on social media but YOU keep bringing it here. You are the father of my nieces and nephews and I’m trying to be respectful but please STOP tearing Kimberly down and using our family when you want to deflect,” she replied. “Like you have pointed out yourself, she is the one taking care of your kids 80% of the time. Please Leave her and the family out of it so that the kids can be raised peacefully. 🙏🏽 I come from a place of love and I am happy to continue this conversation privately if you wish 🤍.”
Two months later, Kim mirrored on the challenges of making an attempt to handle her kids amid her messy divorce from Kanye. (The former couple’s divorce was formally finalized in November 2022.)
“I definitely protected him, and I still will in the eyes of my kids. For my kids. So, in my home, my kids don’t know anything that goes on [in] the outside world,” she defined on the “Angie Martinez IRL” podcast in December 2022. “I am holding on by a thread. I know that I am so close to that not happening, but while it is still that way, I will protect that to the end of the Earth as long as I can. My kids don’t know anything.”
The Selfish writer recalled making an effort to “protect” what her children are uncovered to on-line.
“It is [a full-time job]. It is worth it because I think that of course I want to disassociate in specific thoughts and things being said because that is not me,” Kim shared. “But at the same time in my home I could be going through something, but if we are riding to school and they want to listen to their dad’s music — no matter what we are going through — I have to have that smile on my face and blast his music and sing along with my kids. [I can] act like nothing is wrong and as soon as I drop them off, I can have a good cry.”
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