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Antisemitism
The rapper rambled about his hate for woke culture and love of Trump on the Fox show. His harmful beliefs about Jews, however, didn’t air.
Ye had made himself the darling of right-wing politicians by wearing a shirt that read “White Lives Matter” at Paris Fashion Week. This also scored him an interview on Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” during which he endorsed various right-wing positions, criticized “woke” culture and alluded to antisemitic beliefs about Jewish control of businesses. In sections that were edited out of the interview and obtained Tuesday by Motherboard, however, Ye also made overt antisemitic statements, invoking numerous overlapping conspiracy theories against Jews.
In one hard-to-follow statement, Ye explained his pro-life stance with a statement against Planned Parenthood, which he accused of teaming up with the Ku Klux Klan to “control the Jew population.”
Connecting Hanukkah to “financial engineering” invokes one of the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theories: that Jews control banking.
The rapper may have gravitated toward his particular antisemitic brand of paranoia because he is already steeped in conspiracy theories about Jews.
Though show did cut out some of the most obviously harmful and antisemitic statements the rapper made — Carlson only endorses certain conspiracy theories — it also left in some of Ye’s more veiled, but still dangerous, comments. And hiding some Ye’s most extreme statements also made it easier to give him, as well as his more thinly-veiled antisemitic statements, the Tucker Carlson stamp of approval.
At the end of the interview, Carlson told his audience Ye is “worth listening to.”
https://forward.com/culture/520949/tucker-carlson-edited-out-kanye-worst-antisemitism/
The rapper rambled about his hate for woke culture and love of Trump on the Fox show. His harmful beliefs about Jews, however, didn’t air.
Ye had made himself the darling of right-wing politicians by wearing a shirt that read “White Lives Matter” at Paris Fashion Week. This also scored him an interview on Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” during which he endorsed various right-wing positions, criticized “woke” culture and alluded to antisemitic beliefs about Jewish control of businesses. In sections that were edited out of the interview and obtained Tuesday by Motherboard, however, Ye also made overt antisemitic statements, invoking numerous overlapping conspiracy theories against Jews.
In one hard-to-follow statement, Ye explained his pro-life stance with a statement against Planned Parenthood, which he accused of teaming up with the Ku Klux Klan to “control the Jew population.”
Connecting Hanukkah to “financial engineering” invokes one of the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theories: that Jews control banking.
The rapper may have gravitated toward his particular antisemitic brand of paranoia because he is already steeped in conspiracy theories about Jews.
Though show did cut out some of the most obviously harmful and antisemitic statements the rapper made — Carlson only endorses certain conspiracy theories — it also left in some of Ye’s more veiled, but still dangerous, comments. And hiding some Ye’s most extreme statements also made it easier to give him, as well as his more thinly-veiled antisemitic statements, the Tucker Carlson stamp of approval.
At the end of the interview, Carlson told his audience Ye is “worth listening to.”
https://forward.com/culture/520949/tucker-carlson-edited-out-kanye-worst-antisemitism/
