After Godwin point, Ye point. Increasingly isolated after his recent anti-Semitic remarks, Kanye West went a little deeper on Thursday by confessing his admiration for Hitler and the Nazis during a “what the fuck” interview with American conspiratorial presenter Alex Jones.
In a bizarre appearance, the artist, who now calls himself Ye and wore a black balaclava covering his entire face, launched into a tirade about sin, pornography and the devil. “I also see positive things about Hitler,” said the rapper, on the set of the show “Infowars”. “This guy (…) invented the highways, invented the microphone that I use as a musician. We can’t say publicly that this person has done anything good, and I’m sick of it, ”added Kanye West.
Alex Jones tries to reframe it
Rarely, even Alex Jones seemed uncomfortable, trying to offer the rapper a ramp out, asking him if he wanted to be provocative and just liked “uniforms”. “No, I love Hitler. The Holocause is not what happened if you look at the facts, and Hitler had a lot of redeeming qualities,” he insisted.
The ex-husband of Kim Kardashian continues freewheeling: “I’m tired of labels, every human being has brought something of value, especially Hitler. “The Nazis were thugs and did very bad things,” tried to reframe Jones, recently ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars for denying the reality of a school shooting. “But they did good things too,” the rapper retorted. “We have to stop insulting the Nazis all the time. (…) I love the Nazis. »
The rapper, who suffers from bipolar disorder, seems, like basketball player Kyrie Irving, to be influenced by the Black Hebrew Israelites sect, which promotes the false belief that African Americans are the true descendants of the Israelites, and modern Jews, of the usurpers. Faced with Alex Jones, he assured that his former coach, who is Jewish, had threatened to have him committed to a psychiatric hospital against his will, seeing it as the illustration of a so-called plot to silence him.
The transaction to buy the Parler network falls through
On set Thursday, he appeared alongside white supremacist Nick Fuentes, with whom he attended a highly controversial dinner this week with former US President Donald Trump. The rapper recently suggested that he could run for the presidency of the United States in 2024 and surrounded himself with Fuentes but also with the ex-editor of the nationalist site Breitbart Milo Yannopoulos.
In a statement, the Republican Jewish Coalition denounced Kanye West as a “vile and repugnant cultist who targeted the Jewish community with Nazi-like threats and libel.” “The conservatives who made the mistake of tolerating Kanye West must be clear that he is an outcast,” added this organization close to the Republican Party.
To close the day, the social network Parler, popular with the far right, announced that the takeover by Kanye West, announced as an agreement in principle a few weeks ago, would not take place. According to Axios, this is mainly due to the rapper’s finances, in the red after being let go by Adidas.