While streaming, the rapper performed a Nazi salute and said: ‘Heil Hitler’

While streaming, the rapper performed a Nazi salute and said: ‘Heil Hitler’

  • DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 hours ago

    legit conversation on my friend discord last night

    • hey did everyone see Kanye was on twitch?
    • no, I didnt know that, why’d they let him go on?
    • oh it wasnt very long, he was only on there for like 10 minutes before he got banned for yelling heil hitler
    • oh…

    Kanye skipped the lolcow phase and went straight to the horrorcow one.

    Superbowl ad of the guy lying in a dentist chair high on nitrious going “Umm, umm, umm” for 40 seconds. the kind of shit thats so stupid you cant look away from.

  • TanteRegenbogen@feddit.orgEnglish
    111·
    2 hours ago

    He should come to Germany and do that here and then we can hear from him from prison for the next 12 months and he will be banned from performing here for the next decade.

      • TanteRegenbogen@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        We got freedom of speech. But when it harms people, it isn’t just speech anymore. Cause violence against innocents and you pay the consequences.

        • DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          I get it.

          but the “Free Speech Absolutism” that Vance is talking about, demands the right to call you a N****R without consequences. Or say that you need to be killed because X Y Z.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        54 minutes ago

        Compared to the US, they don’t. 1A protections are extremely broad, to be outside protected speech it practically has to be either CSAM or inciting immediate lawless action.

        As in “SLUR should be hanged from trees” is protected under 1A, “Guys, grab that SLUR over there and string him up” is not. CSAM is primarily illegal because production, distribution and even possession further harms the victim of the CSA performed to create it.

  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    The dud writes songs called “Heil Hitler”, “Hitler Ye and Jesus”, “Free Diddy” and so much more. It is insane

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Last month, West made a video featuring him posing in a diamond-encrusted swastika necklace next to infamous white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

    I have a good friend who is a jeweler, and loves getting an expensive custom job, which this had to be. You dont just pick up a “diamond-encrusted swastika” at Jared. I wondered what my buddy would do if he was offered such a commission.

    And I realized that he’d take it, not because his politics (or musical taste) are in alignment, but I know that he would say “If he wants to pay me a ridiculous amount of money to help him make an idiot of himself in front of the entire world, who am I to deny him?”

      • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I agree, I’d refuse it, but I can’t judge someone who is self-employed, and needs to keep the money rolling in. Traditionally, artists have had to work for wealthy patrons they havent cared for, but that’s the flip side of being an artist, and why the dream is always artistic independence.

        • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 hours ago

          Man, the difference is that the swastika sends a message of death. I know, I know, anything could be a message of death.

          But some stupid fuck sees that stupid idiot wearing a fucking diamond encrusted swastika necklace, then he will be emboldened next time to harm some innocent person. All because, yes, because of someone willing to take the money. It’s blood money.

          • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            That’s a very valid perspective, i agree.

            But it seems like if someone is going to be inspired by a diamond-encrusted swatika to commit hate crimes, they were already pretty far down that path anyway. I don’t think the jeweler who is trying feed his family is at fault.

  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
    181·
    6 hours ago

    The detail I enjoyed most about this is that he had fewer than 220 followers at the time of the ban. This suggests that in order for any details on this incident to have got out at all, a decent percentage of his fans in 2025 are actually just journalists waiting for him to do something stupid they can get an article out of.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    15·
    12 hours ago

    Brain damaged troglodyte speed ran a twitch ban. Nice to see that money can’t quite buy anything.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    20 hours ago

    I guess I’m glad Twitch took a side on that?

    After Bezos went full nazi on the Washington Post, I have expected the worst of everything Amazon.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
      913·
      16 hours ago

      Kanye just isn’t subtle enough with his anti-semitism.

      I just checked and Hasan is still on the front page of Twitch. So don’t worry, Amazon is still profiting off of anti-semitism.