The rapper formerly known as Kanye West directed viewers to his website, where the homepage was selling a T-shirt with a swastika on the front.

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West directed viewers to his website, where the homepage was selling a T-shirt with a swastika on the front.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    85·
    2 days ago

    What’s insane is that FOX allowed this commercial to air in the first place. I’m sure someone at FOX will say “We had no idea he would put this on his site”, which we’ll all know is bullshit because they scrutinize the fuck out of every Super Bowl ad before it gets to air. There is a 0% chance that nobody knew about this beforehand.

      • shades@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        There is absolutely no excuse for this u/Remember_the_tooth. This is wildly inappropriate and completely out of date. There is absolutely NO excuse generative AI and MLL can’t remake this for a sequel using actual Kekius and Trumpf for the modern times.

        • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          That’s a really good point. Why rehash Mel Brooks’ old content when we have actual live NeoNazis on our front porch. Kudos to you for your insight. We could probably just livestream a rally.

    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      432·
      2 days ago

      Guys, just because he went on Alex Jones to make racist jokes and talk about how much he loves Hitler doesn’t mean he’s a nazi

    • jaaake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      The commercial itself didn’t feature the shirt or any nazi imagery. It was a 30 second clip of Kanye in a dentists chair telling you to visit his website. It only aired in LA.

      I don’t understand this timeline.

      https://youtu.be/4eR--0vYHGc

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      Do we know when the website was changed? He could well have changed it the moment the advert went live.