Kanye West storms out of interview after journalist refuses to blame "the Jews" for world's ills.

[DetlefK]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-storms-out-of-interview-after-tim-pool-lightly-defends-jews

During that 20-minute stretch, West offered a sprawling, aggrieved commentary railing against those he believes had harmed him, including but not limited to: a designer at Adidas who Ye is convinced was a CIA and somehow also a “Zionist” plant; Jamie Dimon; Adidas; the Gap; his former trainer and also, in Ye’s mind a Canadian deep-state agent; and, of course, the fictional Jewish cabal in charge of both banking and media. “It was like American History X, like my head was on the side of the curb, and the exact people that I called out kick my head,” said Ye. The rapper also appeared to back Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving, who similarly posted antisemitic material, and talked about the true “bloodlines” of Black people.

“Rahm Emanuel was right next to Obama, and then Jared Kushner was right next to Trump,” Ye added, ending with a “da-da!” musical flourish to punctuate his antisemitic talking point about Jews being puppet masters.

During a brief pause in his near-monologue, Pool told Ye, “I think they’ve been extremely unfair to you.” When asked by Ye to clarify who he meant by “they,” Pool replied: “The corporate press.” That didn’t satisfy Ye. “Who is ‘they,” though?” he shot back. As Pool stammered, one of the evening’s other guests chimed in: Nick Fuentes, the 23-year-old white nationalist and Holocaust denier, who had taken on an undefined role in Ye’s largely theoretical 2024 presidential campaign. “It is them, though, isn’t it?” Fuentes said, again referring to Jewish people.

Evidently, because Pool refused to play into one of the oldest antisemitic tropes around, Ye considered it a bridge too far. Before Pool could get another word in edgewise, West rose from out of his chair and silently marched out of the studio.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. They have meds for that, don't they?

[liberal N proud]

2. If the media would stop giving these idiot a stage

They would go away.

The receive way too much attention.

[phylny]

3. Yes, you're exactly right.

[ananda]

14. Agree.

I just refuse to watch rightwing nutjobs
or the media that enables them.

[Bengus81]

6. Yeah and the media needs to STOP going to these Trump NAZI rally's

and give that POS even more free air time just like they've done now for six years.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

4. Why not just ignore him

Interviewing this horses ass just spreads his hatred. Why do we give a megaphone to the lowest of the low? Just for ratings? This my fellow DUs is my problem with the press.

[Omnipresent]

9. Exactly!

If we don’t like his content, then we have the choice and power to change the channel.

[David__77]

12. Too late for that.

He’s a very prominent figure who is engaged in a very active anti-Semitic campaign.

[MissMillie]

5. when posed with complex issues, there will always be those who think there's a simple answer

and the scapegoat will always be the simplest answer of all. And finding the scapegoat has the added political benefit of making people afraid of "the other."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. "We Republicans don't do nuance" is famous. . . .nt

[padfun]

10. Yep. And they'll say it's Occam's Razor.

nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. The take-away to push onto RW nuts: Ye thinks tRump is a puppet of jews like Kushner. . . nt

[Scrivener7]

11. *Checking to see if I give one shit about what Ye does or thinks.* Nope! Glad to say, not one!

[Happy Hoosier]

13. Dude has lost his damned mind.

And he's too rich for anyone to intervene and force him to get help.

Or he's just evil.

[twodogsbarking]

15. Too bad he has children. Maybe someone will adopt them.

[David__77]

16. Trumps Thanksgiving friend.

Tim Pool’s YouTube comments are full of denunciations of him for not having friendly anti-Semitic dialogue.

It seems like anti-Semitism will be the defining theme of Trumps candidacy. Trumps friend Kanye West is a campaign surrogate. For this faction, their fixation on trans people or “BLM” is a sideshow compared with who they see as the real enemy.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Kanye West is a nut case

[Behind the Aegis]

18. Of course, he did.

As troubling as his bullshit is, it is almost as problematic as those liberals/progressives who just want to put their fingers in their ears and go "la-la-la, I can't hear you!". His anti-Semitism should always be discussed, not ignored. I can tell you, with a great deal of certainty, that his anti-Semitism is being heard by MILLIONS of people and if we do nothing, say nothing, or refuse to acknowledge it, then it will boil over.

This stuck out to me: "Rahm Emanuel was right next to Obama, and then Jared Kushner was right next to Trump,”. Why? Because i have witnessed SEVERAL people on the left saying the same fucking thing! Anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism. It can range from killing Jews in a house of whorship, to calling us "kikes", to not hiring us, to shit like the above, implying Jews are secretly (or not so secretly) pulling the strings. "Jews will not replace us!" is not the only form of anti-Semitism that exists!