Ugh.
On Saturday, Ye uploaded a screenshot of a text conversation with rapper P. Diddy, in which he tells him: “I’ma use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.” In what seemed to be a preemptive defense, he captioned the post “Jesus was a Jew.”
The tweet was taken down because it “violated Twitter rules,” while Meta did not explicitly state which of his posts led to his account being restricted, though the screenshot in question was deleted from his profile.
This prompted Ye to turn to his inactive Twitter account to post a picture of him with Meta’s owner Mark Zuckerberg, saying “How you gone kick me off Instagram. We used to be n*****.”
Elon Musk, who is currently in the process of buying Twitter, responded: “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!”
Ye then tweeted again, “Who do you think created cancel culture?,” before strangely pivoting to a tweet supporting the Iranian “revolution against 44 years of dictatorship.”
The American Jewish Committee slammed the “anti-Jewish posts shared to his 18 million followers on Instagram.”
The posts came after Ye was interviewed on conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, where he alleged that ex-U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner had orchestrated the Abraham Accords between Israel and Gulf states “to make money.”
Here’s that Tucker Carlson interview. I only wish that Carlson had had Sarah Palin and Herschel Walker on with him for a true gibberish fest. For me, that thing just adds up to 42 minutes I can’t get back.
Is Kanye West relevant to politics? Probably not. Tucker Carlson’s viewers aren’t going to be impressed and the rest of the country can see that he’s a disturbed, wealthy individual who has lost the thread. But I do worry that he has influence on the culture at large. He’s revered as a genius by millions of people and many of them might think his anti-semitic comments are acceptable and his attention grabbing nonsense like wearing “white lives matter” t-shirts is a legitimate position.
Update: I guess he is relevant to politics