Kanye West Controversy

Ye, formerly Kanye West, is a Chicago, Illinois native rapper, songwriter, producer, as well as fashion designer. He was born on June 8th, 1977, to Ray and Donda West. Throughout his musical career he has accumulated twenty-one Grammys, making him the most decorated hip hop artist in the world, as well as countless other prestigious awards totaling more than seven hundred ninety nominations and over two hundred fifty wins. More than two hundred of his songs have made it onto the Billboard Top 100. Kanye West has also helped produce over ten Billboard Top 10 songs and multiple number one albums with other artists. In November of 2013, he partnered with the clothing and shoe brand Adidas to launch his wildly successful “Yeezy” line of clothes and shoes.

But, as I am sure many of you have already heard, Kanye West has gotten himself in a lot of hot water as of late. Much of the controversy currently surrounding him stems from the things he posts on a popular social media platform, Twitter. Within the last few months Kanye has been pushing a narrative to his followers, and the public, that the media, banks, government etc. are being controlled behind the scenes by people of Jewish backgrounds. These comments were met with immediate backlash from the public. Many people called for his Twitter accounts to be terminated. Kanye West fought these requests by claiming he was only exercising his freedom of speech on the platform. With the ownership of Twitter recently being transferred from Jack Dorsey to multi-billionaire Elon Musk, freedom of expression and speech on the app has been a hotly debated topic. Kanye West only worsened the situation by later tweeting, “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE. The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.” Many of the people that disagreed with Kanye’s statements once again called for his account to be shut down. They claimed that he had threatened the Jewish people, which is not protected under the first amendment right to freedom of speech and expression.

 

It seems that Mr. West simply does not know when to stop, as he recently took things to a new level in an interview with Alex Jones on InfoWars. During this interview Kanye expressed his belief that all people should be valued and that he loves everyone. While this may seem like a step in the right direction following his many antisemitic comments, he followed up this statement by saying he loved all people including Nazis. Nazis, or the Nation Socialist German Worker’s Party, was the politcal party in control of Germany at the time of the Holocost. The holocost took place during World War II and saw the death of over six million jewish people all across war-torn Europe. In this interview Kanye tries to mitigate the severity of the atrocities committed by the Nazi soldiers and leaders. He continues to say that he even loves Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of German during World War II, often considered one of the worst people to ever walk the earth. As if this was not enough to ruin what was left of Kanye West’s reputation, he posted a picture of the Jewish star of David with a swastika, the symbol used by the Nazis during World War II, shortly after the interview ended. This was the final straw for many people, including the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk. Kanye West’s account was suspended early in the morning on Friday of last week. Elon Musk made a statement that his tweets had violated the platform's terms of service by inciting violence. 

 

 

https://www.ajc.org/news/5-of-kanye-wests-antisemitic-remarks-explained

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nazi-party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Kanye_West

 

What do you think about the situation?

Do you think that his account should be banned?

What do you think is going through his head?

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    • I completely agree with you that he needs help before any perminant decisions are made about his accounts. I agree that he does not understand fully how terrible what he is saying truly is. I think that he thinks he is saying something good when he says that he loves everyone.

  • I think that Kayne finally lost it. The stuff he said was really bad. I think that they should ban or suspend him for what he did. I think that once he gets help with his mental health that they should let him back on Twitter.

    • I totally agree with you that Kanye West has lost his mind, but this is not a new thing. Kanye has been known to do and say crazy things for years. I agree with you that his accounts should be atleast suspended until he gets in act together.

  •  I think that he should get banned from his account because he has said a lot of unreasonable things and he hasn't tried to apoligize for them. I also think that he is mentally not in the right place, but even then his team should make sure he doesn't post something so unreasonable. 

  • I think that Kanye isn't in a good head space mentally, and I think that he is really just starting to lash out and say unreasonable things. I don't think that he will necessarily get banned unless people take action from his words. I don't think that he is really in the right mind to be saying things online. 

  • I think that Kanye has gone a little bit crazy. I think that because he has a platform and he is famous he thinks everything he does is justifiable, which is not the case. I don't think he should be banned from twitter, but he definitely needs to watch what he says online, especially the recent things he has said.

    • I think that "a little bit crazy" is a little bit of an understatement. But, I do agree with you that he thinks that because he is so famous he is almost "untouchable" in the public eye. So, he thinks that he can say whatever he wants to without repercussion.

  • I think that he is trying hard to get people to like him. I think he should get banned for praising Hitler. I also belive that the fame and the attention are getting to his head and he is saying stuff that is very controversial and extreme

  • I think that Kanye has taken things a little too far. He is talking about very controversial stuff, and I think he needs to stop. I don't think he should be banned, but he should definitely be more careful about what he says on social media.  

    • I agree with you that Kanye has taken things too far with his most recent comments. He has always been known to say very outlandish and contraversial things, but this is definetly a different level. I also agree that he needs to be much more careful about what he says online in this day and age. 

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