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Ye's website is selling swastika shirts after boosting its profile with Super Bowl ad (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The rapper formerly known as Kanye West directed viewers to his website, where the homepage was selling a T-shirt with a swastika on the front.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 days ago (5 children)

What's insane is that FOX allowed this commercial to air in the first place. I'm sure someone at FOX will say "We had no idea he would put this on his site", which we'll all know is bullshit because they scrutinize the fuck out of every Super Bowl ad before it gets to air. There is a 0% chance that nobody knew about this beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At least the next Superbowl halftime show is going to be interesting:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is absolutely no excuse for this u/Remember_the_tooth. This is wildly inappropriate and completely out of date. There is absolutely NO excuse generative AI and MLL can't remake this for a sequel using actual Kekius and Trumpf for the modern times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's a really good point. Why rehash Mel Brooks' old content when we have actual live NeoNazis on our front porch. Kudos to you for your insight. We could probably just livestream a rally.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

Guys, just because he went on Alex Jones to make racist jokes and talk about how much he loves Hitler doesn't mean he's a nazi

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do we know when the website was changed? He could well have changed it the moment the advert went live.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was on his website yesterday and there was no swastika then. There was "white lives matter" and a bunch of nazi-adjacent symbols with plausible deniability but no outright swastika.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What a strange chap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Strange is an understatement

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The commercial itself didn’t feature the shirt or any nazi imagery. It was a 30 second clip of Kanye in a dentists chair telling you to visit his website. It only aired in LA.

I don’t understand this timeline.

https://youtu.be/4eR--0vYHGc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I saw it. I'm not in Louisiana or Los Angeles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I heard it didn't air in all regions?