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Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:11 PM Oct 2022

Kanye West Has A Disturbing History of Admiring Hitler

Source: CNN

By Chloe Melas, CNN
Updated 3:31 PM EDT, Thu October 27, 2022

Several people who were once close to the artist formerly known as Kanye West told CNN that he has long been fascinated by Adolf Hitler -- and once wanted to name an album after the Nazi leader.

A business executive who worked for West, who now goes by Ye, told CNN that the artist created a hostile work environment, in part through his "obsession" with Hitler.

"He would praise Hitler by saying how incredible it was that he was able to accumulate so much power and would talk about all the great things he and the Nazi Party achieved for the German people," the individual told CNN.

The executive left his position and reached a settlement with West and some of his companies over workplace complaints, including harassment, which CNN has reviewed. The former executive asked not to be named due to a confidentiality agreement and fear of retribution by West. According to the agreement, West denied the executive's allegations.

The executive told CNN that West spoke openly about reading "Mein Kampf," Hitler's 1925 autobiographical manifesto and expressed his "admiration" for the Nazis and Hitler for their use of propaganda.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/entertainment/kanye-west-hitler-album/index.html



I guess he is one of those that thinks he can say anything openly to anyone and get away with it. Like many others
he learns the hard way, that he cannot get away with this one. He is done as an artist and done as a celebrity. West
is another stupid person that doesn't know he is very stupid. But he is about to learn that he is stupid. How can
someone defend liking Hitler? We will all see how he defends his admiration of one of the worst people in all history.
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Kanye West Has A Disturbing History of Admiring Hitler (Original Post) Stuart G Oct 2022 OP
Ye and TFG have that in common IronLionZion Oct 2022 #1
Yes DENVERPOPS Oct 2022 #35
This. JudyM Oct 2022 #36
Yep ck4829 Oct 2022 #46
Bill Burr on Kanye, 2018: sl8 Oct 2022 #2
I remember that! (love Bill Burr) Wingus Dingus Oct 2022 #32
I believe Kanye read about as much of Mein Kampf as Trump did of the book of speeches. tanyev Oct 2022 #3
If He Actually Did Read It modrepub Oct 2022 #13
Didn't Kanye once say slavery was voluntary or optional or some such? Gore1FL Oct 2022 #20
He Did... GB_RN Oct 2022 #33
he has a disturbing history, period Skittles Oct 2022 #4
Well said. Thank You for your observation & post. Stuart G Oct 2022 #5
I really feel bad for his children Skittles Oct 2022 #7
And Their Mom Is Also An Intellectual Genius SoCalDavidS Oct 2022 #41
Much like Trump. Haggard Celine Oct 2022 #9
yup Skittles Oct 2022 #11
Yes, there are a lot of public figures lately PatSeg Oct 2022 #14
Indeed ck4829 Oct 2022 #47
"... all the great things he and the Nazi Party achieved for the German people" Jim__ Oct 2022 #6
great like Berlin in June 1945 speak easy Oct 2022 #10
Kanye... What specific great things? keithbvadu2 Oct 2022 #22
I'm laughing at all the suckers GenXer47 Oct 2022 #8
And he became a billionaire being PatSeg Oct 2022 #16
I think his first couple of albums were brilliant. Elessar Zappa Oct 2022 #21
That's what people have been saying PatSeg Oct 2022 #40
What a dick Blue Owl Oct 2022 #12
He is the perfect candidate johnnyfins Oct 2022 #15
Nah, they won't run Yeezy for the White House. Jedi Guy Oct 2022 #43
never understood the attraction. Or to any of the Kardacians for that matter... Evolve Dammit Oct 2022 #17
I checked all my music. OneCrazyDiamond Oct 2022 #18
Ye ol NAZI lover. nt Cha Oct 2022 #19
He's done professionally. Joinfortmill Oct 2022 #23
Good riddance CountAllVotes Oct 2022 #24
Hopefully ck4829 Oct 2022 #48
"All the great things [they] achieved for the German people" is one of the most ignorant things RockRaven Oct 2022 #25
Kanye would be a good Halloween costume this year Roetdoe Oct 2022 #26
Missed the filing deadline for this election mahina Oct 2022 #27
Like all Hitler apologists, he's a fucking twerp who wants to look big and tough Warpy Oct 2022 #28
Indeed ck4829 Oct 2022 #49
Yeah sure, Hitler left Berlin in great shape postwar; great things!!! winstars Oct 2022 #29
Kanye IS disturbed. BigmanPigman Oct 2022 #30
Stuart G............. Upthevibe Oct 2022 #31
I Often Said Of That Pairing... GB_RN Oct 2022 #34
Has anyone told Kanye . . . Shoonra Oct 2022 #37
Nobody gives a rat's ass about this nitwit. MadMike47 Oct 2022 #38
He has a lot of support on Social Media and it's extremely depressing to see all the support. Quixote1818 Oct 2022 #39
One of the worst people in history? thomski64 Oct 2022 #42
What about him isn't disturbing. twodogsbarking Oct 2022 #44
well he does llashram Oct 2022 #45
Kick ck4829 Oct 2022 #50

JudyM

(29,122 posts)
36. This.
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 10:34 PM
Oct 2022

I know nothing of how he and TFG connected, but doesn’t this make you think that kanye responded to one of TFG’s dog whistles by requesting a meeting… and then the convo between them left no doubt about their shared twisted worldview…?

sl8

(13,584 posts)
2. Bill Burr on Kanye, 2018:
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:21 PM
Oct 2022


Bill Burr's Take On Kanye AGED WELL!

Liberty South Media

8.7K Likes
541,996 Views
Oct 12 2022

This was recorded back in 2018. Listen to how it's so on point now in 2022 in reference to kanye west.
#shorts #billburr #kanyewest

tanyev

(42,356 posts)
3. I believe Kanye read about as much of Mein Kampf as Trump did of the book of speeches.
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:25 PM
Oct 2022

Not much. People that narcissistic are not going to spend time reading books about someone who is not themself. But I also believe they admire how much power Hitler had. Talking about him and having his books lying around is one way to show that that admiration.

modrepub

(3,467 posts)
13. If He Actually Did Read It
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:49 PM
Oct 2022

He might have been taken aback on how much Hitler admired the race laws that parts of the US imposed on African Americans after the Civil War. He might have also been surprised and how much Hitler cited US inspired Eugenics.

Then again, maybe these points wouldn't have mattered to him.

Gore1FL

(21,028 posts)
20. Didn't Kanye once say slavery was voluntary or optional or some such?
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 06:49 PM
Oct 2022

I think the only thing he admires is himself and fellow narccacists.

GB_RN

(2,267 posts)
33. He Did...
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 10:22 PM
Oct 2022

And that under tRump, they would abolish the 13th Amendment (which abolished slavery), because, get this, the 13th Amendment was "slavery in disguise."

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
7. I really feel bad for his children
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:34 PM
Oct 2022

I know what it is like having an unstable parent and it must be all the more excruciating when it is so PUBLIC

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
41. And Their Mom Is Also An Intellectual Genius
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 02:10 AM
Oct 2022

She really chose wisely. As if she didn't know what he was like, and who he admired. But I guess he had the one thing she was most interested in. Top Notch Father Material there Kim.

Haggard Celine

(16,820 posts)
9. Much like Trump.
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:41 PM
Oct 2022

I can see how they would mesh. If any one of us were to start behaving like they do, we would be sitting in the state mental hospital and getting regular thorazine shots. This is how crazy rich people can fuck up the world.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
11. yup
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:44 PM
Oct 2022

big money makes a big difference....you and me, we look at these people and we're like, WTF IS WRONG WITH THEM but others see something to admire

PatSeg

(46,779 posts)
14. Yes, there are a lot of public figures lately
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:59 PM
Oct 2022

who are like that. They are addicted to the attention and if they don't get it enough, they say and do something outrageous - Bingo, they're in the news. Just like Donald Trump. No wonder Kanye likes Trump so much. Unfortunately, I don't think Trump cares for him very much. He doesn't even fake liking him very well.

Jim__

(14,045 posts)
6. "... all the great things he and the Nazi Party achieved for the German people"
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:33 PM
Oct 2022

Yea, maybe Kanye and Trump can achieve those great things for the United States.

 

GenXer47

(1,204 posts)
8. I'm laughing at all the suckers
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 05:36 PM
Oct 2022

who have spent money on his brands. He is and always has been the epitome of mediocrity - he's not even a musician, nor is he a fashion designer or anything else. Con artist, 100%

PatSeg

(46,779 posts)
16. And he became a billionaire being
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 06:08 PM
Oct 2022

painfully mediocre and pointless. He calls himself a genius, but I think "con artist" is more like it, though I think he believes his own hype.

Elessar Zappa

(13,649 posts)
21. I think his first couple of albums were brilliant.
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 06:53 PM
Oct 2022

He was at the top of the hip hop game for a few years but then his mom died and he went crazy.

PatSeg

(46,779 posts)
40. That's what people have been saying
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 11:42 PM
Oct 2022

about his mom dying, though he's had a long history of being obnoxious and outrageous. Meanwhile, I can't imagine anything that he's done to make him worth $2 billion.

johnnyfins

(772 posts)
15. He is the perfect candidate
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 06:02 PM
Oct 2022

for the MAGA party. He can run for President and finally usher in the full blown fascism they all crave. Think I'm joking? Think again...

Jedi Guy

(3,171 posts)
43. Nah, they won't run Yeezy for the White House.
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 06:14 AM
Oct 2022

He's a useful idiot, much like Herschel Walker. It's one thing to put a useful idiot in the Senate and quite another to put one in the White House. There are 100 Senators and while they do have clout, they have only so much of it. The Presidency is something else altogether.

Yeezy's value to them is being a clown to amuse the masses. He's the nincompoop who repeatedly takes pratfalls to make people in the crowd point and laugh while the pickpockets do their thing. Yeezy just won't get his cut afterward, as he will learn to his sorrow.

RockRaven

(14,782 posts)
25. "All the great things [they] achieved for the German people" is one of the most ignorant things
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 07:09 PM
Oct 2022

one could imagine anyone saying.

What Hitler and the Nazis accomplished for the German people was getting 1 out of every 12 Germans killed in a six year period. One in twelve!

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
28. Like all Hitler apologists, he's a fucking twerp who wants to look big and tough
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 07:29 PM
Oct 2022

but separate any of these guys from their goons or even their buddies, what they really are soon becomes apparent.

winstars

(4,213 posts)
29. Yeah sure, Hitler left Berlin in great shape postwar; great things!!!
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 07:29 PM
Oct 2022

Kanye somehow gives assholes a bad name!


Upthevibe

(7,879 posts)
31. Stuart G.............
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 08:46 PM
Oct 2022

Thank you for the post.

He's a piece of sh*t on so many levels I can't even....

And that idiot ex-wife of his, kar (I don't spell out or capitalize their names because it's just a small way I can show disrespect (It's silly but still....) had FOUR effing kids with him.

I can't take having these imbeciles in my consciousness......They're a bunch of effing freaks!

GB_RN

(2,267 posts)
34. I Often Said Of That Pairing...
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 10:25 PM
Oct 2022

"That it was the world's biggest ass married to the world's biggest ass. You figure out which was which."

I also call him Scum-ye.

Shoonra

(518 posts)
37. Has anyone told Kanye . . .
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 10:59 PM
Oct 2022

Has anyone told Kanye about Hitler's attitude about black people, and even mixed-race people (he deprived them of citizenship and had them labelled "Rhineland Bastards&quot ?
I'm just asking.

MadMike47

(104 posts)
38. Nobody gives a rat's ass about this nitwit.
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 11:01 PM
Oct 2022

Except the nitwits at CNN. And I don't give a rat's ass about them.

Quixote1818

(28,903 posts)
39. He has a lot of support on Social Media and it's extremely depressing to see all the support.
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 11:16 PM
Oct 2022

Our country is not well.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
45. well he does
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 10:26 AM
Oct 2022

exactly what another fascist hero of his does. He is one of the most ignorant humans on this planet. This is a self-hating antisemitic jackass sociopath with money. I do hope he loses his fortune along with trump, musk et al...

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