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And in the third week of Kanye Wests antisemitic meltdown, Adidas, the sneaker company literally founded by Nazis, cut ties with him despite a projected loss of $250 million; The Gap pulled his products off store shelves; producers scrapped a documentary about his life; and Madame Tussauds stuffed its wax visage of the rapper into storage.
Oh, and the superintendent of my local school district put out a statement of condemnation.
If it seems a bit too late, coming a full 18 days after West who legally changed his name to Ye was banned from Twitter for declaring war on Jews, dont worry, it was also way too little. The short email inexplicably did not name West/Ye, vaguely expressed concern that many students have been talking about the situation, and obfuscated the fact that a few days earlier, a Jewish mom had announced at a public meeting that two middle-school students had recently greeted her daughter at recess with a Nazi salute.
As some of you may have heard, a well-known entertainer and entrepreneur has made several hateful, antisemitic statements this month, the superintendent wrote. We do not tolerate any form of antisemitic behavior whether its expressed in verbal or online bullying, graffiti, jokes, or other kinds of activity.
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This ties in well with the recently posted "Opinion: American Jews start to think the unthinkable" by mahatmakanejeeves in Editorials & Other Articles and a mirror copy with a link to the one I just provided by JudyM, here in the Jewish Group. to both!
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,600 posts)Ive seen lengthy discussions about but its true, why is that an insult? that just dont get it. And discussions about a certain slur actually being a compliment about Jewish financial acumen
Behind the Aegis
(54,861 posts)There are some even whining about the reaction to his anti-Semitism.
nycbos
(6,360 posts)I feel that if we engage a clown like Kayne we lose. But if we ignore him we also lose.