Subj : Re: Cancel Culture
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Fri Oct 28 2022 07:50:43

On 27 Oct 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > At an October 3 fashion show in Paris, Kanye (or "Ye") West had models
 MP> > wearing "White Lives Matter," a known white supremacist slogan, walk dow
 MP> > runway.
 MP> I agree that some think it is, just as they think saying "all lives
 MP> matter" is.

Except that "White Lives Matter" has een adopted by actual white supremacist
groups.
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/white-lives-matter

 MP> > When Sean "Diddy" Combs said that he "did not rock" with the WLM movemen
 MP> > West responded, "Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people tha
 MP> > told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence." This stateme
 MP> > got West kicked off of Instagram.
 MP> I have read that quote over and over.  Either you left something out, or
 MP> it was nonsense to begin with.  :)

I accidentally left out a "me" at the end. Hope that helps.

The implication by West was that Combs is being controlled by Jews. Combs, to
his credit, attempted to respond with reason but West was having none of it.

 MP> > West then posted on Twitter (where he hadn't posted for two years): "I'm
 MP> bit
 MP> > sleepy tonight but when I wake up I'm going death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE
 MP> > (original emphasis). This got him kicked off of Twitter.
 MP> Is Puff Daddy Jewish?  Otherwise, I am missing the connection that West
 MP> is making.

I'm not sure that this was even aimed directly at Combs.

 MP> > After being kicked off of Instagram and Twitter, West made moves to buy
 MP> > Parler.
 MP> I think someone else may have recently bought, or tried to buy, them
 MP> also. It could have been "Ye" as I didn't realize that was West until
 MP> this story hit the news.

He's the only one I know of.

 MP> > Was West a victim of Cancel Culture, or were all of those companies brea
 MP> > ties with him a natural consequence of his anti-Semitic speech?
 MP> It sounds like he made threats ("going death con 3"), which can be
 MP> construed as beyond freedom of speech, so I believe it was more than
 MP> either of those but probably mostly the latter.

I don't think it was a serious threat, and that he probably meant that he
would continue to assault Jews verbally.

Jeff.

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