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

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by can 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] 75 points 15 hours 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] 1 points 1 minute ago

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] 61 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 15 hours 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] 13 points 15 hours 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] 24 points 15 hours 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] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What a strange chap.

[–] cashsky 3 points 9 hours ago

Strange is an understatement

[–] can 6 points 14 hours ago

I heard it didn't air in all regions?