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West, who is legally called Ye, has even alienated ardent fans in recent years, teasing, long tinkering with albums that didn’t match earlier success.
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Kanye West once suggested slavery was a choice. He called the COVID-19 vaccine “the mark of the beast”.
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Earlier this month, he was criticised for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his collection at Paris Fashion Week.
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Now the rapper who is legally known as Ye is again embroiled in controversy — locked out of Twitter and Instagram over anti-Semitic posts the social networks said Sunday violated their policies.
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In one post on Twitter, Ye said he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE”, according to internet archive records, making an apparent reference to the United States defence-readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.
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“You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda,” he said in the same tweet posted late Saturday, which was removed by Twitter.
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The comment drew a sharp rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, which called the tweet “deeply troubling, dangerous, and antisemitic, period”.
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“There is no excuse for his propagating of white supremacist slogans and classic antisemitism about Jewish power, especially with the platform he has,” a statement said.
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The social media policies for Twitter and Instagram prohibit posting offensive language.
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