Kanye West continued his streak of spouting anti-Semitic feedback in a heated argument with Chris Cuomo Monday (Oct. 17) on Cuomo’s self-titled new present on NewsNation. Earlier than angrily hanging up on the present’s host, the rapper — who now goes by Ye — gave an replace on his plans to purchase the conservative social media platform Parler, spoke about ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s “left agenda” politics, and defined how he justifies his ongoing marketing campaign of hate speech towards Jewish folks in a 20-minute digital look on Cuomo.
Cuomo caught up with Ye in a video name because the Yeezy designer was using in a automotive. When requested if he was on his technique to meet with former president Donald Trump, Ye stated he was really going to barter with the CEO of Parler — a social media hub typically utilized by right-wing political thinkers that Ye provided to buy earlier this week following his suspension from Instagram and Twitter.
“Why would I stay in a spot the place I’m simply tolerated?” he stated of his need to purchase Parler. “Why not go to a spot the place I’m celebrated? I carry lots of consideration to those platforms, to Instagram and Twitter and … they shadow ban you.”
This led right into a dialog about the actual purpose Ye was booted from the 2 platforms: for posting hostile remarks aimed on the Jewish neighborhood, together with one wherein he stated he would go “loss of life con 3 on Jewish folks.” Within the days main as much as his Cuomo look, Ye doubled down on his anti-Semitic feedback on Tucker Carlson‘s Fox Information Present in addition to Drink Champs (the latter present’s host, N.O.R.E, later stated he regretted having Ye on as a visitor).
On Cuomo, Ye as soon as once more asserted his stance by claiming that Jewish folks make up a majority of music executives and yield an agenda exercised by taking management of musicians equivalent to himself. “This isn’t hate speech,” he insisted to Cuomo. “That is the reality. For those who say something out of the road with the agenda, then your profession could possibly be over.”
“There’s so many Black musicians signed to Jewish document labels and people Jewish document labels take possession … of the tradition itself,” he added. “It’s like a modern-day slavery, and I’m calling it out. That’s what ‘loss of life con 3’ meant. It didn’t imply I wanted any hurt on my fellow Jewish folks.”
Cuomo didn’t let Ye’s feedback simply stand, particularly the musician’s point out of a “Jewish underground media mafia.” “Look, there is no such thing as a Jewish media, cabal, mafia. That could be a figment of both your creativeness or a projection of a prejudice,” Cuomo shot again. “You’ll have had unhealthy enterprise dealings with folks — it’s about these folks. It’s not about their faith or religion. And I do know that you simply’re clever and perceive that whenever you goal folks due to their religion, different folks might accomplish that the identical.”
Ye additionally looped in his former in-laws, saying that his political variations with Kardashian brought about their divorce. “My household was torn aside off of my political opinion due to my ex-wife’s attachment to the Clinton administration,” he instructed an astonished Cuomo, additionally claiming that former buddies John Legend and Chrissy Tiegen are additionally a part of the “left agenda.”
“They had been getting my ex-wife to push the vaccination — I didn’t notice how connected [the Kardashians] had been to the left agenda after I was there.”
Watch Kanye’s full interview on Cuomo above.
