Kanye to Alex Jones: 'I Like Hitler'

[Temeret]

Source: Rolling Stone

Kanye West praised Adolf Hitler during a Thursday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

“Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler,” Ye said. “Also Hitler was born Christian.”

Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kanye-west-alex-jones-i-like-hitler-1234639617/amp/

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Oh.. That explains why Trump met him.

[maxsolomon]

1. "I just try to see the good in everyone"

He's trolling. F Ye.

[Abolishinist]

2. Big deal, so what if he was. 94% of Germans were Christian in 1939.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. That's a chilling thought. Radicalized the xtians. I did not know that. KKK is "xtian" too though?

Maybe xtians that can be so easily made to do horrible things are the real threat, or religion in general.

[Abolishinist]

22. I would say if one identifies as such, then who am I to say they aren't.

From WiKi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany#CITEREFEricksenHeschel1999

A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era and after the annexation of mostly Catholic Austria and mostly Catholic Czechoslovakia into Germany, indicates that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 40% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig (lit. "believing in God&quot , and 1.5% as "atheist".

A Pew Research study done in 1950 shows there to be little change in the total %, merely the sub-groups.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/12/once-a-majority-protestants-now-account-for-fewer-than-a-third-of-germans/

Protestants represented a majority (59%) of Germany’s population in 1950, with Catholics as a sizable minority (37%), according to research by Detlef Pollack and Olaf Müller, scholars of religion and sociology at the University of Münster in Germany.

[blugbox]

29. Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit attrocities...

As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well. And from this derives all those crimes of religion which have overrun the world.

[Evolve Dammit]

30. yep. Pretty damn disgusting. No other species does this shit. n/t

[czarjak]

35. When founded, Blacks, Jews, Catholics were named sworn enemies of The Klan.

It's complicated?

[Evolve Dammit]

39. How nice.

[czarjak]

41. Not for Blacks, Jews and Catholics necessarily?

[Mz Pip]

3. Donnie's new BFF

Keep having those dinners, Donnie.

[Gore1FL]

4. I didn't realize one could be born Christian.

I feel lucky that I was given a chance to choose otherwise.

[maxsolomon]

9. I was born to Christians

I got baptized ASAP. It's not an ethnicity, but I guess you could say I was "born Christian". I certainly chose Atheism.

Ye is literally crazy - he's manic AF and needs meds.

[ExtremelyWokeMatt]

5. Sometimes I really question the universe

It would have been nice not to have a world without having to even think philosophically about Kanye’s perception of ‘value’ that Hitler and mass murderers supposedly had.

It stopped being even remotely funny when Charlottesville happened. Shut them down. It would literally be cheaper to pay them to live in a virtual reality bubble so we don’t have to hear about it.

[Sneederbunk]

6. And Jones likes fried foods.

[packman]

7. Well. as long as he was born Christian

That makes everything O.K.

[DetlefK]

8. Hitler wasn't special.

He was a disillusioned war-veteran who saw the country he fought for transform into something he didn't recognize.

Feeling betrayed by the government, he turned towards violent extremism and conspiracy-theories.

In a movement mainly consisting of uneducated thugs, his willingness to make obscenely exaggerated speeches naturally made him a leader.

In a country desperate to reestablish their glorious past, he became a symbol of martial righteousness because he was the polar opposite of the tame political establishment.




He was at the right place at the right time.

[peppertree]

13. And like today's far-right GOP, he rose to power with massive corporate and Wall Street support

As well as support from much of the middle class, who saw in Hitler a guarantee that "socialist rabble would be put in its place."

History, as they say, doesn't necessarily repeat - but it does like to rhyme.

[Evolve Dammit]

40. Sounds like Mob Boss Orange Boy, except Cadet Bone Spurs never served. "Suckers and Losers"....

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Hey ye, two words:

Jesse Owens

[peppertree]

11. And another two that were among Hitler's favorites:

Ethnic pollution.

For his beloved Hitler, Mr. West would be the very definition of that.

[SouthernDem4ever]

34. my first thought too

kanye would have had no freedom of speech there.

[peppertree]

37. He'd be lucky to keep his head

Can you imagine the loudmouthed and unhinged Kanye, running into an SS patrol?

[LudwigPastorius]

12. That guy is seriously cracked.

TV and radio stations need to stop giving him time to display his florid mental illness.



...and Kanye's pretty bad too!

[republianmushroom]

14. You never knew Hitler, you just want attention and now you're sucking up to Jones.

[LiberalFighter]

15. Kanye demonstrated he does not know the history of Hitler's nondenomational positive Christianity.

[Blue Owl]

16. JFC

[sakabatou]

18. Hitler would've sent Kanye to Gross-Rosen or worse.

[Bengus81]

19. Trumps best bud right now--oh wait,suddenly Trump never met YE

Coming in 5...4...3

[Stuart G]

20. Kanye West is totally done, and he did it out loud to himself, and it is on record for all to see.

West thinks like others that he can say ANYTHING. But this one is so stupid that West will go totally broke because of this statement.
West has no clue. Too stupid to know that he is "VERY STUPID."

He will be left alone except for a few paid appearances by right wingers. He will go broke. Nothing at all.
Of all the things to say, perhaps, this is the very worst.

"I like Hitler." Kanye West said. He said the dumbest thing that he could have ever said. It will take some time, but over time, Kanye West will become a "HAS BEEN" and go completely broke.
No audiences, no TV appearances, no interviews, (only by right wing fools), no money, just empty and totally broke.
West proved today how stupid he really is, and for all to see.

[Temeret]

25. Parler just said they won't let Kanye buy Parler

They were considering it though. Can't get rid of the stench now:https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-hellhole-parler-says-kanye-is-no-longer-buying-it-after-antisemitic-alex-jones-interview

[Andy Canuck]

21. Oh

FFS. Media-just stop giving this very mentally ill man airtime. Especially a conversation with Jones, I personally don’t want to hear anything from either of them. Feeding narcissism makes them think they want to be heard. Just f&$king stop.

[Behind the Aegis]

23. How long til something happens?

How many will die?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. ... and Hitler would have loved you, Kanye. You betcha.

[colorado_ufo]

26. Attention whore.

[bronxiteforever]

27. Taylor Swift Makes History as First Artist With Entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100.

Just saying….

[applegrove]

28. Wasn't Kanye the one who said "George W. Bush doesn't like black people?"

Um. I don't think Hitler liked black people more than Bush.

[XorXor]

31. Goofy edge-lord trying to stay in the news cycle.

Musk banned him from Twitter for posting some screwy image of a swastika inside a star of david. I think it's just a temporary ban, though. I find it fascinating to read the tweets from people who seem to think that he shouldn't have been banned for that, and how Musk sold them out.

Crazy world.

[BigmanPigman]

32. Being bipolar does not excuse his hatred...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/kanye-west-anti-semitism-mental-illness-bipolar-jews-white-lives-matter.html

"Mental Illness Does Not Excuse Kanye’s Antisemitism, Even If It Explains It"

[MissMillie]

33. Someone told me that he's off his meds

He had been getting help for mental health issues and a few years back he stopped treatment. My source indicated that this is why his behavior has become what it is and that it's also why his wife left him.

I have no idea where my source got this information or whether or not it's true.

If it is true, it's certainly something to think about.

[area51]

36. Fvck both those guys.

[AKwannabe]

38. This person is mentally ill

Whoa

He needs to be evaluated stat!

[Initech]

42. Kanye accidentally said the quiet part out loud!