Congrats, you canceled Kanye. Call me when White guys get in trouble.

[douglas9]

After years of trafficking in bigotry, Kanye West has finally been kan-celed. But at second glance, the consequences for West might be less a victory for social justice than a sign of its current limits.

Two weeks ago, the rapper-turned-sneaker-mogul dominated headlines after going full white supremacist on, well, everyone. He stoked Black outrage by wearing “White Lives Matter” shirts at a fashion show. He then pivoted to full-blown antisemitism in tweets and interviews, vowing to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE”— then didn’t apologize but doubled down. As I wrote before, I wondered how long the mainstream brands that worked with the man who now legally goes by Ye would stand behind him.

The antisemitism was the last straw. Corporate cancellation has come for Ye. He has been dropped from representation by agency CAA. Vogue and Balenciaga have cut ties with him. Most crucially, this week, Adidas finally severed its extremely lucrative relationship with Ye. Canceling his Yeezy line will cost the company $248 million this year — the deal generated an estimated $2 billion a year, close to 10 percent of the company’s annual revenue — and its stock tumbled. Gap similarly announced it would shut down YeezyGap and pull the merchandise


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/kanye-west-canceled-antisemitism-hate-speech/

[hlthe2b]

1. I'd be more than happy for that to start with Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Steve Bannon and all

the worst of the Trumpist MAGATs. Not to mention the man, himself. Doing my part to help...

[vanlassie]

2. Any comment about Kanye that doesn't explicitly address

that he is clearly very, very ill is a waste of time and misplaces the blame. It is a mental health matter.

[JT45242]

3. Chris Noth was killed off the Equalizer...

In entertainment it happens
. In normal industry it doesn't because real billionaire hold too many cards...(see The Snyder family of the NFL) as compared to the mere millionaire Marge Schott who was pushed out of baseball decades ago.

There have been white CEOs pushed out, but with golden parachute and stock options they just lay low for a while and jump somewhere else.

[marble falls]

4. The important part of the piece ...

... The “deplatforming” of Ye is a strong and necessary check against hate speech. But the saga reinforces how fraught it is to look to predominantly White, capitalist institutions to enforce and maintain boundaries around hate and bigotry in this society.

This why Ye got in this deep. Ye became the force he became because he was making corporations fat.