Think that I touched on this story a few weeks ago, when I posted about the seemingly inexplicable rise of anti-Semitism in recent years. In particular, it seems that Kanye West and Kyrie Irving seriously hurt, and possibly crippled, their careers with very public displays of anti-Semitic sentiments via tweets.
Irving was reinstated, his suspension from the NBA is done. I guess he lost some money, and surely lost much respect. Still, it feels like it was not enough. One of the teams that I generally root for are the Brooklyn Nets, but I was not be pulling for them this season, or any season that they continue to have Irving on their squad.
As for Kanye West, he apparently did lose significant amounts of money. But that hardly seems like actual suffering in his case, since he is a billionaire.
Boo freaking hoo, right?
Yet incredibly - or perhaps it should not even be all that surprising, given the depressing level of stupidity that seems especially prevalent these days in the United States - some of his fans have begun a Go Fund Me page to try and restore West to his allegedly lost billionaire status.
Seriously? Of all the possible worthy causes in this world, some people actually believe that that this is a cause that they feel strongly enough about to take action and even use their wallets for? Because spoiled and clearly out of touch billionaire Kanye West - through his own stupidity and hubris - used his very popular and influential social media platform (at least to his fans) to spread a message of hate, and was actually called out for it by corporate sponsors, who then were quick to jump ship?
Really, I don't know what's going on in this country anymore these days. The level of idiocy too often seems to be just off the charts.
In any case, now Adidas is apparently now looking into allegations that Kanye West may have shown some employees porn.
What a class act.
Much like Trump, I find myself wishing that Kanye West would simply go away already. Just disappear from the public scene, so that maybe our collective IQ might actually raise a few points as a result. Hardly seems likely, but wouldn't that be nice?
Below are the links to the articles that I used in writing this particular blog entry:
Kanye West claims he lost $2bn in one day amid backlash to antisemitic comments by Guardian staff Thu 27 Oct 2022 22.23 EDT
Rapper known as Ye confirms the impact of Adidas and other companies cutting ties over his hateful remarks about Jewish people
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/28/kanye-west-claims-he-lost-2bn-in-one-day-amid-backlash-to-antisemitic-comments?fbclid=IwAR0UqTiTyAra2QlcZ7qMlH-BJzZxV5no2TnS6IGpRxH6HM4BZZQcJIG8_jk
Kanye West Fans Start GoFundMe Pages to Restore His Billionaire Status Ye fans want to “Make Kanye West a Billionaire Again” BY CHARISMA MADARANG NOVEMBER 1, 2022
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-gofundme-1234622026/
Adidas to launch investigation into allegations of inappropriate behavior made against Kanye West by Gayle Harrington and Robert North, CNN, November 24, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/business/adidas-kanye-west-investigation/index.html
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