In an op-ed published in the Financial Times, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel encouraged several of Ye’s business partners - which includes Apple, Spotify and more - to halt their business with the rapper. 8-9, 2022: Instagram & Twitter Restrict Ye's Accounts See how musicians reacted to his antisemitic comments and WLM shirts. Please stop.” She later went on the TODAY show and reiterated her concerns, condemning his hate speech as “just abhorrent.” A threat to Jewish people ended once in a genocide. She first responded with her own message on Twitter, noting, “The holiest day in Judaism was last week. Jamie Lee Curtis was one of many celebrities who spoke up loudly after Ye’s tweet. “So before I can get to any other lives matter … Black lives matter, don’t play with it.”
“All America has planned for us is poverty, incarceration and death,” he said. Black Lives Matter.”ĭiddy also spoke out regarding the shirts in a video. He tweeted afterward that he didn’t care whose show it was: “If I Don’t Feel The Message I’m Out. The young rapper, who was in attendance at Ye’s Paris Fashion Week show, left the Yeezy event early. Jaden Smith was among the first to speak out. 8 tweet saying he’d go “death con 3 on Jewish people.” Many companies have cut business ties with the rapper/fashion designer, while numerous musicians, friends and politicians have condemned his comments.Ĭelebrities quickly shared their concerns over the rapper’s “White Lives Matter” shirts, and later, his Oct. This arrives at a troubling time when antisemitism is on the rise, with the Anti-Defamation League noting a 34% year-over-year increase in antisemitic incidents (assault, harassment and vandalism) in America in 2021. 8, 2022, tweet in which he announced he was going “death con 3 on Jewish people,” Kanye West (Ye) has repeatedly doubled down on antisemitic hate speech, even going so far as to praise Hitler, a man responsible for the systematic murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
22 dinner with Donald Trump and white nationalist Nick Fuentes was widely denounced, even by Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence.įrom brands and scrapped documentaries, to airplay declines of his music catalogue and more, here are the consequences Kanye West has faced due to his “WLM” and antisemitic remarks. People in his orbit, from former girlfriend Julia Fox to collaborator Pusha T, have also distanced themselves from him. Since then, Adidas has opened an internal investigation after several former employees accused West of inappropriate workplace conduct during meetings with Adidas employees. The move, according to the publication, now puts Ye’s net worth at $400 million and resulted in his removal from Forbes‘ billionaires list.
25 that it was dropping his due deal, and that the brand does not tolerate hate speech. Musicians React to Kanye West's Antisemitic Comments, WLM Shirtsįorbes has also reported that Ye has lost his billionaire status after Adidas announced Oct.
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