For those who didn’t suppose Kanye West (fuck Ye) was one sleezy-ass bastard. Effectively, right here you go.
The rapper has launched a brand new T-shirt on his web site that includes a swastika, the notorious Nazi Celebration image that Adolf Hitler adopted in 1920.
“Since 1945, the swastika has served as probably the most important and infamous of hate symbols,” says the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on its web site. Ye has beforehand made antisemitic statements, together with expressing admiration for Hitler and the Nazis.
The clothes are priced at $20, with Shopify dealing with the transactions. It stands as the only product obtainable on yeezy.com.
Throughout Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl, West ran an area commercial directing viewers to his web site, with out revealing particulars in regards to the T-shirts. In response to Ye, he personally recorded the commercial, which options him chatting with the digicam from a dentist’s chair. The business aired regionally in Los Angeles, as reported by Selection.
“I spent, like, all the cash for the business on these new enamel,” Ye mentioned within the business, displaying off a set of jewel-encrusted enamel. “As soon as once more I needed to shoot it on the iPhone. Um… Um… Go to Yeezy.com.”
The T-shirt launch follows current antisemitic content material posted on his social media. His X account has since been deactivated.
The ADL, which combats discrimination in opposition to Jewish individuals, voiced sturdy opposition to the T-shirt gross sales.
“As if we would have liked additional proof of Kanye’s antisemitism, he selected to place a single merchandise on the market on his web site — a T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika,” the group mentioned in a put up on X. “The swastika is the image adopted by Hitler as the first emblem of the Nazis. It galvanized his followers within the twentieth century and continues to threaten and instill concern in these focused by antisemitism and white supremacy.”
The group highlighted that the product code HH-01 seems to reference “Heil Hitler.”
“Kanye was tweeting vile antisemitism nonstop since final week. There’s no excuse for this sort of conduct. Even worse, Kanye marketed his web site throughout the Tremendous Bowl, amplifying it past his already large social media viewers,” the ADL added.
