Kanye West's X Account Deactivated After He Declared 'IM A NAZI' In Deluge Of Antisemitism
On Monday morning, West's page was replaced with the message: 'This account doesn't exist.' It is not clear if West deleted the account himself or if he was removed from the social media network.
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Musk reinstated West's X account in 2023, eight months after the rapper previously praised Hitler and posted an image of a swastika blended with a star of David.
Before exiting X today, West had been active during Super Bowl Sunday, including ranting about images of Taylor Swift dancing on television.
West's account was slapped with a 'potentially sensitive content' warning message. Musk said: 'Given what he has posted, his account is now classified as NSFW [not safe for work]. You should not be seeing that anymore.'
West, 47, later wrote: 'I'm logging out of Twitter. I appreciate Elon for allowing me to vent. It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board.'
The latest deactivation comes after West — known as Ye — posted a series of antisemitic posts, including declaring himself to be a Nazi. The comments prompted an outpouring of condemnation from critics including David Schwimmer and Piers Morgan.
'IM A NAZI,' he wrote over the weekend. 'I LOVE HITLER NOW WHAT BITCHES.' In another all-caps missive, he added: 'SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE JEWISH AND I DONT TRUST ANY OF THEM.'
Schwimmer said: 'We can't stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk. Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That's twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence. His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews.
'I don't know what's worse, the fact that he identifies as a Nazi (which implies he wants to exterminate ALL marginalized communities including his own) or the fact that there is not sufficient OUTRAGE to remove and ban him from all social media at this point. Silence is complicity.'
The American Jewish Committee condemned West for continuing to 'purposefully use his platform to spew anti-Jewish hatred,' while the Campaign Against Antisemitism described it as an 'antisemitic rampage.'
Morgan said: 'So disappointed that Kanye West has deleted his X account… said nobody. From genius rap superstar to demented, vile, racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, violence-inducing troll. What a sad, pathetic downfall.'
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