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Joe Rogan argued against tech platforms banning Kanye Wests latest song praising Adolf Hitler, noting that the millions of downloads the kinda catchy tune has racked up on X kind of supports the rappers antisemitic views that theres a concerted effort by Jewish people to remove him from everything.
West, who has openly expressed his love for the leader of the Third Reich in recent years, uploaded the songs Heil Hitler and WW3, another tune that glorifies Hitler, to X earlier this month. While Spotify and SoundCloud rushed to remove the song from their platforms, Heil Hitler proliferated across the Elon Musk-led social media site and racked up millions of views.
Yes most recent repost is of a video mixing historical clips of Hitler together with his song as a backing track. He also shared a video on X of influencer Andrew Tate a self-described misogynist playing the song in his car. That video has been viewed over 3 million times, NBC News reported last week. Yes account is verified as an organization on X, meaning it could be eligible for monetization and ads. Its not clear if Yes account uses those features.
With the pro-Nazi tune continuing to spread across right-wing social media accounts, Rogan attempted to thread the needle this week between denouncing Wests hateful and trollish rhetoric while also defending the lack of censorship on X. At the same time, he argued that the songs popularity on X could be seen as proving some of what West is saying about Jewish people.
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yardwork
(68,885 posts)newdeal2
(4,697 posts)Views on X = it must be good enough, so allow it everywhere.
There's a lot of sick things on the internet, that doesn't mean it needs to be allowed on mainstream platforms.
Johonny
(25,291 posts)The Joe Rogan standard double standard.
Sometimes it is okay to just stop at, I think this song's sentiments are awful, awful, horrible, holy shit who wants this!
mercuryblues
(16,148 posts)They are not and never will be accepted by the white supremacists. He is merely useful to them, for now. If their dreams come true, West will be deported, just like everyone else that are deemed undesirable. He may be the last to go but go he will. Along with Jared and Ivanka.
questionseverything
(11,525 posts)He has been trash talking democrats since *rumps first term
RJ-MacReady
(603 posts)Kanye doesn't have nearly that much sway.
Melon
(983 posts)Everyone can see the mental health issues. Its watching a race to see the crash.
RJ-MacReady
(603 posts)Big deal he has a podcast. He's an ignorant meathead who helps make losers like Andrew Tate famous. Instead of trying to get on his podcast and walk on eggshells around him we need to ridicule him and be dismissive. Turn it on them all their "alpha male" bullshit needs to be mocked.
Iris
(16,830 posts)flvegan
(65,680 posts)Mosby
(19,211 posts)Of why the "counterspeech doctrine" is bullshit.
We need hate speech laws, IMO.
Melon
(983 posts)This is America. Turn it off if you dont want to hear it. There is an obsession here to be told what we can hear. At what point are the messages you need to hear turned off?
hatrack
(64,176 posts)Google "Cut the tall trees." if you're groping for an example of limits on free speech.
Initech
(107,241 posts)So fuck you and eat shit for praising Hitler.
karynnj
(60,765 posts)Interesting that there is one censorship of this, but they clearly were censoring any criticism of Trump at least months ago when I deleted my login.
I guess white South Africa might have been the repository of Nazis.
Mz Pip
(28,335 posts)who find Kanye or Ye, or whatever he calls himself today, and offensive POS and that any praise of Hitler should be remove as an obscenity.
2MuchNoise
(716 posts)Solly Mack
(96,284 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(6,661 posts)UTUSN
(76,698 posts)Both claim cover of not knowing politics.
bullwinkle428
(20,659 posts)were clearly greatly exaggerated. He's still a bigoted ignoramus.
Dorian Gray
(13,845 posts)can both go fuck off to the anti-semitism hill in hell. I'm so sick of them.