Kanye West is “inspiring people to commit real-world acts of hate,” says Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, which released a new report this morning about how the rapper's white supremacist rhetoric is impacting college campuses.
the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has notably receded from public view. But support for his white supremacist rhetoric has continued to reverberate across the country, particularly on college campuses, where students have witnessed banner drops, vandalism, campus flyers and even targeted harassment, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League.
The duo isn’t the first to promote Ye’s antisemitism across university grounds. On October 11, days after Ye’s “death con 3” tweet and nearly two months before he praised Hitler on Infowars, the words “Kanye was right” and “Defcon III” were found scrawled on a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse sidewalk.
Meanwhile, several Jewish-owned businesses, Holocaust centers, and synagogues have been subject to harassment from Ye supporters. In November, an anonymous caller phoned a Jewish-owned restaurant in Los Angeles asking for “the Kanye special” while proclaiming “Death to all the Jews,” per the ADL.
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