There’s a troubling train of thought I see some places online- some people think Kanye is being cancelled because he pissed off the “wrong people” (Jews.) That kind of thinking, though often unintentional, still furthers the antisemitic lie that the Jews are the ones “in charge” in some way. In reality, brands are dropping Kanye for a combination of the white lives matter shirt ordeal, his antisemitic comments, and his lies about George Floyd. He is being cancelled for *both* his antisemitism and antiblackness
He’s also not being cancelled completely. There’s still thousands of people who support him, and his recent antisemitism has just encouraged neo-Nazis.
See this?
ALTThis was hanging over an LA highway just yesterday, the latest in a string of such banners being hung over prominent highway passes.
Kanye West has also announced his intentions to buy the right-wing social media app Parler, to mounting support from the far-right.
Like every other racist, antisemitic, misogynist, and transphopic celebrity, he’s not being cancelled. He’s not becoming irrelevent, people are not stopping their support of him, he’s becoming more relevent than ever. Because bigotry sells.
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