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It must be impossible to be a Kanye fan at this point. It’s just endlessly embarrassing. Your guy is a terrible person — remember the Alex Jones interview or “slavery was a choice” or the entire antisemitism press tour?
He’s also mired in the longest cold stretch of his career — he’s dropped three consecutive wack albums and it looks like “Vultures” is about to be his fourth. And the things he said over and over about Jewish people and Hitler had an impact. Neo-Nazis popularized the slogan “Kanye is right” or “Ye is right.” The Anti-Defamation League reported that there was a rise in antisemitic hate crimes after his comments. The ADL found at least 25 antisemitic incidents that specifically named Kanye. Can you imagine being a pop star and knowing that your words are leading to actual neo-Nazis and other right-wing maniacs attacking Jewish people, and for years, you say nothing?
Recently, Kanye apologized on Instagram and it’s so pathetic.
He apologized on his page in Hebrew (why?) the day after Christmas. This is a time of the year that people in the media would consider a dead period. As in, it’s a time you’d place a story if you wanted it to die. Kanye released an apology at a time when it would be most likely to recede quickly into the background.
His apology also doesn’t show or reference any work he’s done to get to a place of apologizing. Kanye said a lot of gross things about Jewish people. (Yes, he also said a lot of horrible things about Black people, and yes, he owes us an apology for many things but that’s a different conversation. Right now, I’m talking about his little nonpology to Jewish people. No, I did not make up the word nonpology, and you knew what it meant as soon as you saw it.)
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