The hosts of Fox Newsâ Fox & Friends Weekend were forced to make an on-air u-turn after learning about the hateful things Kanye West actually tweeted over the weekend.
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Initially, Will Cain, Pete Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy supported West after it was revealed he was banned from Instagram for posts deemed âanti-semeticâ.
On Saturday (October 8) West shared a series of texts heâd exchanged with Sean âDiddyâ Combs following Combsâ criticism of his âWhite Lives Matterâ t-shirt – a slogan tied to white supremacist movements. In one of those texts, West wrote to Diddy: âIâma use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.â Shortly after that, his Instagram account was restricted by Meta and posts were removed.
âWeâre in this weird era where people canât just say what they want to say,â said Campos-Duffy, who had seen the post. âThis idea you have to just shut down his account is just, itâs totally totalitarian, totally anti-American. Itâs just wrong.â
Following his Instagram restriction, West returned to Twitter and said: âIâm a bit sleepy but when I wake up, Iâm going death con 3 on Jewish people. The funny thing is that I actually canât be anti-semitic because Black people are actually Jews. Also, you guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone who opposes your agenda.â His Twitter account was suspended soon afterwards.
Kanye West is what happens when we normalize antisemitism in society. This is the byproduct of silence in response to the bigotry and blatant antisemitism of people like Louis Farrakhan.
There are more people who saw Kanye Westâs antisemitism than there are Jews in the world. pic.twitter.com/9KH550s8Ib
— Emily Schrader – ××××× ×Š×¨×××ר (@emilykschrader) October 9, 2022
After an ad break, Cain, Hegseth and Campos-Duffy returned to Fox & Friends Weekend and seemed far less supportive of West. âYe West threatening to go to war with Jewish people on Twitter,â said Hegseth (via the Independent) before calling the whole affair âuglyâ and âunfortunateâ.
âWe talked about it earlier without knowing about these tweets and saying of course thereâs going to be a target (on West)â Hegseth continued. âBut in this particular case, he brought the target.â
However, Campos-Duffy did not condemn the posts and instead asked whether West âshould he be removed from Instagram and who gets to decide that?â
Following the backlash to his White Lives Matter, West sat down with Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson â who himself has long history with allegations of racism and the promotion of white nationalist rhetoric â wherein West admitted that he found the shirt, and his idea to wear it, to be funny.
The likes of Jaden Smith and figureheads at Supreme and Vogue have taken issue with the stunt.
Meanwhile, Canadian singer-songwriter Esthero â who co-wrote Westâs â808s & Heartbreakâ tracks âLove Lockdownâ, âStreet Lightsâ and âRobocopâ â says she intends to donate her cut of publishing royalties for the tracks to Black Lives Matter in response to Westâs actions.
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