The e-commerce platform found itself in an unenviable position thanks to Kanye West. Did it put things right? Kind of.
Experts in Jewish history and culture say we should be talking about Kanye West's antisemitism. That to be silent is to be complicit.
Ye used a local TV ad in Los Angeles to direct people to his website, where he is selling T-shirts emblazoned with swastikas.
According to CBS News, online the e-commerce platform Shopify, shut down Ye’s site after learning about the tees, which were on brand for Ye considering his head-scratching three-day anti-Semitic rant on X where he called himself a “nazi” and professed his love for Adolf Hitler.
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West promoted the website in a Super Bowl ad that aired in Los Angeles. After it aired, the store started selling only one item.
Ye claims that swastika "had many different meanings and many different names" and concludes that, despite admiration for Hitler, he's not a Nazi.
The T-shirt, which comes in three sizes and sells for $20, is the latest in a long series of blatantly antisemitic acts and statements by Ye.
On the controversial music producer’s Yeezy site, where he was previously selling various items of clothing for his Yeezy brand, the only item for sale is the offensive T-shirt with the anti-Jewish, hate symbol.
Shortly after he aired a Super Bowl commercial for a website selling a swastika T-shirt, and two days after posting an antisemitic rant on X, the rapper Ye announced that he was quitting the platform.
Experts in Jewish history and culture say we should be talking about Kanye West's antisemitism. That to be silent is to be complicit.
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Ye is selling T-shirts bearing a swastika on his website after local Super Bowl adYe, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, used a Super Bowl ad to direct people to his website, where he is selling T-shirts emblazoned with swastikas.
One reseller posted the shirt on eBay for nearly $700 before the site removed the listing. In an ad that aired in select markets during Sunday’s Super Bowl, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West,
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