“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin blasted Kanye West on Friday for spewing anti-Semitic remarks – and bluntly warned that the Holocaust “may occur once more” if the general public doesn’t communicate out towards such vile commentary.
Griffin known as West a “moron” following the rapper’s deranged look Thursday on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ “Infowars” alongside white supremacist Nick Fuentes. West, who wore a black hood that coated his whole face, praised Adolf Hitler and rambled about anti-Semitic conspiracy theories all through the weird episode.
“I watched clips of the livestream and I hate that these individuals actually have a platform,” Griffin mentioned. “And I saved pondering to myself, I hope I by no means have to listen to the names, Kanye West, Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes once more. However the issue is that this: Kanye West has 32 million Twitter followers. There are solely 14 million Jews on the planet.”
“To place a finer level on it, 6 million Jews had been killed within the Holocaust and there’s solely 7 million Jews within the US,” Griffin continued. “We have now to denounce this, we've to talk out as a result of that sort of horror may occur once more if these morons have platforms.”
“And by the best way, I used to be simply shocked by the truth that I believe that is the primary time in Alex Jones’ life that he wasn’t the craziest, most offensive particular person within the room, as a result of even at moments, he seemed sort of shocked by what Kanye was saying,” she added.
Co-host Sonny Hostin chimed in to agree with Griffin, stating that the West saga “confirmed you the boundaries of de-platforming.”
“We're all shocked that you just’ve received Alex Jones, who’s the Sandy Hook denier, you’ve received Nick Fuentes, who’s a white supremacist, and also you’ve received Kanye West, who’s an anti-Semite and anti-black and a Holocaust denier all collectively and on the airwaves,” Hostin mentioned.
West has relentlessly expressed anti-Semitic views throughout numerous media appearances in current months. The music mogul has misplaced main enterprise offers with Adidas and the Hole, and misplaced his standing as a billionaire.
At one level throughout his “InfoWars” look, West claimed that he sees “good issues about Hitler.”
“The Jewish media has made us really feel just like the Nazis and Hitler have by no means provided something of worth to the world,” West mentioned.
Inside hours of constructing the unhinged remarks, West was suspended from Twitter following a sequence of offensive tweets – together with one by which he shared an unsettling picture of a swastika inside a Star of David.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk mentioned West had “once more violated our rule towards incitement to violence,” forcing a suspension.
In a separate improvement on Friday, Jones filed for Chapter 11 chapter after he was ordered to pay practically $1.5 billion in damages to kin of victims of the 2012 Connecticut college capturing. Jones had repeatedly referred to the mass capturing as a hoax.
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