Kanye West has been sued and dropped by his talent agency after he posted a stream of antisemitic abuse, put T-shirts with a swastika on sale in his online shop, and was alleged to have described himself as Hitler to a Jewish employee.
Last week West, also known as Ye, wrote a barrage of antisemitic posts on X including, “I’m a Nazi … I love Hitler”.
The swastika T-shirt was placed for sale on the website of his fashion brand Yeezy, with the product line “HH-01”, assumed to be code for “Heil Hitler”.
Shopify, the company that provided the online platform for Yeezy, has now taken the store offline, stating: “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms.”
Shopify when this happened: No comment.
Shopify after blowback: This is an abhorrent abuse of our policies! We are all adither!
In conclusion: Fuck Shopify. And obligatory fuck ICE.
Good riddance.
Let this be his only legacy.
I worked with someone who defended Kanye for like a year after he went publicly apeshit. Probably up until at least 2019 when I last spoke to him on the topic. He just kept claiming that it was so unfair that Kanye was getting judged as an off-meds mentally ill person suffering. Which I would get, as long as he wasn’t hurting other people. But that’s been the motherfucker’s raison-etre for a while now.
Well now there’s a ten dollar word if I’ve ever seen one.
Slips scrabble back to the top…
Let’s not forget the first time he got banned from Twitter when he put “the Jews” on “deathcon 5.” This guy is broken. I hope he can get some help.
Shopify only dropped him because they didn’t think he’d actually ship the swastika shirts, not because he was selling the swastika shirts.
The ceo of Spotify said in an interview she’s Jewish and he’s a disgrace tho
The CEO of Shopify is a man named Tobias Lütke
OMG I totally thought this was supposed to be some weird reference to Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development.
Time for ANUSTART
Could very well be, dude has a bit of never-nude energy about him.
It says “This store is unavailable” which means it’s probably not a DNS or webserver block and still uses the shop software to serve the page. So it’s most likely a Shopify block.
Welp here’s hoping he loses the domain next.
I have some bad news for Yeezy. Nazis
weren’taren’t very fond of brown people either.Yeah, I’m not sure exactly where he thinks he fits in Hitler’s idea of the übermensch.
Or the mentally ill…
Which is really ironic if you consider sociopathy to be a mental illness.
if you consider sociopathy to be a mental illness.
Nah, because that’s just Antisocial Personality Disorder, which basically boils down to trusting your own judgement over society’s.
That can be very bad, or very good.
Like, Harriet Tubman put her own values over society’s laws, so she broke a shit ton of laws with zero remorse. Hard to say she had a mental illness. But her actions we celebrate today, met a lot of the diagnosing criteria.
It’s just human variation, but it’s likely incredibly undercounted because regardless of if the person is more on the “good” or “bad” side, they all think they have a better line of thinking than society. And fuck man. Take a look around.
Society as a whole isn’t doing too hot lately, it’s a pretty low bar to say you trust your own morals than society’s.
Nah, because that’s just Antisocial Personality Disorder, which basically boils down to trusting your own judgement over society’s.
I am not here to attack people with Antisocial Personality Disorder, but it’s definitely not just ‘trusting your own judgement over society’s’, it also " is a personality disorder defined by a chronic pattern of behaviour that disregards the rights and well-being of others." The ‘societal judgment’ they’re in conflict with is often the rights and well-being of others. I have an ex with it, and they had an extremely difficult time up until their early 40’s, when they did improve a bit. We’re still not sure if that’s ASPD decreasing over time, or them getting used to dealing with it.
Again though, this isn’t to attack people with it (who will suffer far more at the hands of others than themselves) but to hand-wave it as ‘trusting your own judgment over society’s’ is… not accurate. From your own link:
People with antisocial personality disorder tend to purposely make others angry or upset and manipulate or treat others harshly or with cruel indifference.
Feeling no guilt about harming others.
Doing dangerous things with no regard for the safety of self or others.
I say all of this as someone who lived with someone else with ASPD. The one that caused our breakup was “Aggression toward people and animals.” as they hurt me and attempted to hurt our cat in order to hurt me emotionally. This was a reaction caused by PTSD from their truly traumatic childhood, but I’d appreciate it not boiled down to some sort of Chaotic Good interpretation.
s a personality disorder defined by a chronic pattern of behaviour that disregards the rights and well-being of others
That is one of the diagnosis criteria…
But it’s not a checklist where you gotta score 100%.
And to keep the Harriet Tubman example, legally under society’s laws she wasn’t freeing people. At the time and place she was at she was stealing property from people, relatively expensive property, and in large amounts.
Most people’s experience with someone diagnosed with ASPD are because they have the real bad ones in addition to the others, and someone without them would also almost never go see a shrink of their own free will, because they still have the other parts where they think (maybe rightfully) that they know more than everyone else.
This also skews what the medical community sees.
If someone doesn’t give a fuck about others, they still may realize the benefit of social nicities and benefits from being part of a community.
This ain’t an idea I just had, people have been talking about this undercount since way before we stopped using outdated terms like “sociopath”, and that was decades ago.
Every time I see shit like this, where it’s framed as “THIS HORRIBLE THING IS NOW HAPPENING TO THIS RICH PERSON AND THEYRE SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS” I’m always like
So what?
They’re still billionaires. They’re still incredibly rich. There’s nothing you can actually do to these people with shit like this. We’re far past the “we can just not support their company” or the “we can just not vote for them and ruin their life” stage of this, gang.
Yup. The time for alternative actions is now.
The only thing that amazed me about this is that he had a “talent agent”.
Yes, I too am shocked that one of the most successful musicians of the century had a “talent agent.”
The guy is a piece of shit but this is such an asinine comment. The only shocking part is he got dropped in the first place, considering he still somehow manages to make money hand over fist anytime he releases some half-finished album these days. The talent agencies will tolerate a hell of a lot as long as the money keeps flowing.
Dude has been out of it for years, and hasn’t put out anything of note during that time. He’s already made statements that should have alerted any reputable talent agency to stay the fuck away.
Nah, I’m surprised he has a talent agent, too, after his last outburst. I know talent agents aren’t immune to bigotry but it’s still a bit surprising that anyone would attach their name to his like that
Any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold it long enough.
I’m not sure, but I think he’s been dropped and picked up by someone else before.
Talent agents choose money over ethics all the time. It’s practically their job. Regardless, things like this happen when the negative publicity makes a client a bad return on the agency’s investment (or a client hurts their reputation, which is to say, when a client hurts their chances of making money in the future). Their only concern is money, not antisemitism.
Next, he’ll be contacted by an even less prestigious agency whose desperation outweighs their ethical concerns. He may already have been.
Not only that, but they only signed him last year.
