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Rapper Ye apologizes in Hebrew for antisemitic comments

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Don't care.

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compared himself to Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler

Too many psychedelic drugs? Or mental illness? Or both? It wouldn't be so tragic if he didn't have a vast following, but he needs some sort of treatment.

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Good, it’s a start.

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He's Trump's buddy; why should anyone believe?

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Their is no anti Semetic laws,how many people have been prosecuted for them,their are civil and criminals laws against racial bias ,which advocate harm malice and oppression,maybe their should be laws against Jews supporting the slaughter of innocent Palestinians

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He seems to have serious problems with his mental health, and surrounding himself with people that enable his erratic behavior may be extremely risky.

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It's hard to believe that this confusing mess of a human receives as much attention as he gets.

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Ye-awn fest.

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dbsaiyaToday  08:52 am JST

He's Trump's buddy; why should anyone believe?

He claimed the same sing-song earlier this fall. Nobody believed it. I didn't and I don't.

virusrexToday  09:00 am JST

He seems to have serious problems with his mental health, and surrounding himself with people that enable his erratic behavior may be extremely risky.

stormcrowToday  09:51 am JST

It's hard to believe that this confusing mess of a human receives as much attention as he gets.

His recent actions have only shown that he will do anything to get it. And the sexist/sexual lyrics of one of 'Vulture' 's songs have an antisemitic slant that I won't print here.

The statement arrives less than two weeks after Ye went on an antisemitic rant in Las Vegas while promoting his upcoming album “Vultures,” due out Jan. 12. In the rant, he made insidious insinuations about Jewish influence and compared himself to Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler.

You don't lose any hatreds or biases overnight.

“While he claims that he is committed to learning and greater understanding, this apology speaks to ‘any pain I may have caused,’ rather than acknowledging the pain that he has caused,” the AJC continued.

> “I will say I’m sorry for the people that I hurt with the confusion that I caused," he said on the show. But less than two months later, he told conspiracy theorist and host Alex Jones that he sees “good things about Hitler.”

“We’ve seen this behavior from Kanye before — the antisemitic rant and the follow-up apology,” the American Jewish Committee said.

Ye’s latest apology ends with him saying he’s committed to “learning from this experience” and plans on “making amends.

He's said this jive before, it's just a stunt to sell a new CD. I've seen this behavior so many times since I've been in school and when things go 'good' for them it's the same ol' crap. If he really has a change of heart he'll remove that Jew-bashing song from the album or just shelve the entire thing altogether. Are we to take his word this time that he really has changed his ways and his beliefs?

I ain't buying it!

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He has freedom of speech in the US therefore he can say what he wishes.

Criticising him for making an apology seems to be a step back though…

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He claimed the same sing-song earlier this fall. Nobody believed it. I didn't and I don't.

Then you don’t. He has no reason to apologize, him doing so seems sincere, we all deserve second chances, who am I to call the guy a liar? Do I know this for certainty? Absolutely not, doesn’t mean I can’t give the guy the benefit of the doubt.

His recent actions have only shown that he will do anything to get it. And the sexist/sexual lyrics of one of 'Vulture' 's songs have an antisemitic slant that I won't print here. 

We all have Google.

You don't lose any hatreds or biases overnight. 

Wait? This is what gets me with the left, how the heck can you define someone as guilty or sincere without a shred of evidence either way?

He's said this jive before, it's just a stunt to sell a new CD.

That makes him as he always has been, a marketing genius.

I've seen this behavior so many times since I've been in school and when things go 'good' for them it's the same ol' crap. If he really has a change of heart he'll remove that Jew-bashing song from the album or just shelve the entire thing altogether.

Or you can just skip over it….

Are we to take his word this time that he really has changed his ways and his beliefs? 

I ain't buying it! 

Again, i’m not going to throw any stones or any glass houses I’m not perfect, neither is he, and I think the guy deserves a benefit of a doubt if he’s expressing himself in this manner, and if he gets to sell an album or two in the process, more power to him. That’s a great thing about America, the first amendment and capitalism.

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I know nothing about this horrible man except for his past deeds, and have never heard one song of his, but this apology lines up perfectly with the release of a new album. I do not believe for one second he means any of it, it is all about publicity. I hope its a huge flop.

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He has freedom of speech in the US therefore he can say what he wishes.

And reap the consequences of whatever he says.

Criticising him for making an apology seems to be a step back though…

The criticism is for the non inclusive way he choose to make that apology, for not acknowledging the very clear effect of his declarations and for the lack of honesty on his previous apologies, that were followed by further anti-Semitic declarations making it doubtful he is being honest this time.

He has no reason to apologize, him doing so seems sincere

He has a lot of reasons to apologize, specially at a time where an understandable scandal for his declaration would have serious economical consequences (again) for him. The article explains reasons to think he may not be sincere.

That makes him as he always has been, a marketing genius.

The many different negative consequences of his previous problematic declarations are not exactly something a genius would do.

Or you can just skip over it….

How exactly would people skipping a song would prove he honestly changed his way of thinking? How many people doing it would be necessary to reach that conclusion?

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LOL, Losing $1.6 billion will make you learn another language.

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virusrexToday  01:32 pm JST

He has freedom of speech in the US therefore he can say what he wishes.

And reap the consequences of whatever he says.

Fershure. That kind of revisionist hate talk has led to extremely ugly violence in the past. WW2? The Nazis slaughtered 6 million of them. And Ye still sasses off about them, and admires the bastard who killed them off. That's not something to take lightly.

Criticising him for making an apology seems to be a step back though…

The criticism is for the non inclusive way he choose to make that apology, for not acknowledging the very clear effect of his declarations and for the lack of honesty on his previous apologies, that were followed by further anti-Semitic declarations making it doubtful he is being honest this time.

He has said he isn't antisemitic but keeps on blubbering the same damn rhetoric. Again and again. Just like trump cultists - 'I don't mind them but.....'. But nothing. He keeps making these idiotic statements that antisemites say. He is using the same damn rhetoric and terminology that antisemites use, as well as the 'projectionist' bullying bullcrap methods that bigots use.

He has no reason to apologize, him doing so seems sincere

He has a lot of reasons to apologize, specially at a time where an understandable scandal for his declaration would have serious economical consequences (again) for him. The article explains reasons to think he may not be sincere.

That makes him as he always has been, a marketing genius.

And he's trying to sell a new album. Coincidence? I don't think so. He claimed to have 'changed his ways' after all his endorsements were taken away and his 'Christian' school was shut down.

opheliajadefeldtToday  01:17 pm JST

I know nothing about this horrible man except for his past deeds, and have never heard one song of his, but this apology lines up perfectly with the release of a new album. I do not believe for one second he means any of it, it is all about publicity. I hope its a huge flop.

And shame on the people who participated on it and assisted him on it. He has not shown any indication of learning anything or 'seeing the light', let alone changing his ways. His actions (and his Jew-bashing remarks he keeps making) do not show it. He pulled this 'gimme a nudder chance, I've changed!' stunt before and I don't believe a word of it, not then and not now.

And yes I hope that his new CD flops big time, gets universally terrible reviews and vanishes in an instant. Just like that so-wretchedly-gawdawful-should've-never-been-made 'Dark Side of the Moon - Redux' by another artist criticized for antisemitic remarks - Roger Waters. That's right, Rog keeps on calling Israel an 'apartheid' state and has created great controversy over the years with his anti-Jewish actions at his shows and his remarks. As for his album, which he made as a 'counterpart' for the 50th anniversary of the Pink Floyd 'DSOTM', don't buy it. I mean it's sooooooooooo horrible. I'd rather eat worms than to hear it again. It hasn't made an impact at all and I hope Ye's 'Vultures' meets the exact same fate, fast.

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I see someone is back on their meds!

Actions have consequences and this idiot has flapped his yap long enough to know better. Mental illness or not, no easy-peezy let bygones be bygones for Yeezy.

Time for “people” to learn one doesn’t compliment Hitler and just walk away like nothing happened.

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I’m sure his new-found remorse has nothing to do with his “brand” being in the toilet at a time when a new album is about to be released?

No, certainly no one would be that self-serving…..

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But people out here screaming death to Israel and making anti-semitic statements left and right yet nobody is checking them. Why?

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Criticizing Israel, it's government, it's laws and people who support them is not anti semitic.

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Criticizing Israel, it's government, it's laws and people who support them is not anti Semitic.

I have to agree with @ Mr Kipling on this one. You would need to be criticizing them for being Jewish, and/or to be criticizing the religion, to be anti-Semitic.

People doing the wrong thing is not limited by religion. An idiot is still an idiot no matter what their faith is or is not.

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He hasn't learned any languages, he didn't say anything, but he did post it in written Hebrew on Instagram. Someone has surely written this for him. Everything about him in that photo seems to send a bad example to his followers.

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And shame on the people who participated on it and assisted him on it. He has not shown any indication of learning anything or 'seeing the light', let alone changing his ways.

Now how on earth would you know this?

His actions (and his Jew-bashing remarks he keeps making) do not show it. He pulled this 'gimme a nudder chance, I've changed!' stunt before and I don't believe a word of it, not then and not now. 

No one is forcing you to believe him, there are millions that do, obviously, he's still making sales and making money. Again, we don't know what is in this guys mind or heart.

And yes I hope that his new CD flops big time, gets universally terrible reviews, and vanishes in an instant.

Why would you want to wish ill will on someone who has various viewpoints and opinions, Ye is a complex man, there are so many layers to this guy, I think as usual the one-sided finger-pointing crowd is just all riled up because they don't want to see another viewpoint.

Just like that so-wretchedly-gawdawful-should've-never-been-made 'Dark Side of the Moon - Redux' by another artist criticized for antisemitic remarks - Roger Waters. That's right, Rog keeps on calling Israel an 'apartheid' state

Given the man's philanthropy and the millions he has given to needy causes over the years, he explained his comments, they were taken out of context and anyone who knows Rogers, the man has always stood up for injustice. It seems you seem to get easily irritated when someone thinks differently than you on the issues YOU hold dear to your heart and it's ok, not everyone will agree with you or with me, but calling Rogers a Jew-hater.....not so sure about that one...

and has created great controversy over the years with his anti-Jewish actions at his shows and his remarks.

If you take it as anti-Semitic. I hate everything Soros stands for, but that doesn't make me a Jew-hater, I hated Oprah, and her weird worldview, doesn't make me anti-black.

As for his album, which he made as a 'counterpart' for the 50th anniversary of the Pink Floyd 'DSOTM', don't buy it.

Ahh, you don't get to make that call, you mean "you" personally wouldn't buy it. We can all decide for ourselves what we want or don't want to buy.

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Time for “people” to learn one doesn’t compliment Hitler and just walk away like nothing happened.

The man has been dead almost 80 years now.

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Time for “people” to learn one doesn’t compliment Hitler and just walk away like nothing happened.

The man has been dead almost 80 years now.

And yet prominent figures on the right including the insurrectionist in Chief parrot his ideas and his rhetoric.

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And yet prominent figures on the right including the insurrectionist in Chief parrot his ideas and his rhetoric.

No different than the left that parrots their socialist followers

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bass4funkDec. 27  10:48 pm JST

Time for “people” to learn one doesn’t compliment Hitler and just walk away like nothing happened.

The man has been dead almost 80 years now.

And the infamy and gross crimes, impact and stink he imposed is unprecedented in history. Some people are so evil and rotten the legacy they leave is ever lasting. Such as Pharoah Ramses 2 of Egypt, Roman Emperors Nero and Caligula, Emperor Chin of China - and praising those people is never cool, even thousands of years later.

Hitler may be dead nearly 80 years now but his mark on history is ugly and nothing to compliment or defend. The Jews (and everyone else) his Holocaust killed did nothing to deserve it. And on the same token those Bosnian Muslims Milosevic abused didn't deserve that kind of treatment either, nor did the Hispanic kids under TreasonTrashTrump.

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