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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.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Remember_the_tooth 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least the next Superbowl halftime show is going to be interesting:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 This is wildly inappropriate and completely out of date.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 4 points 1 week 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 42 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was on his website yesterday and there was no swastika then. There was "white lives matter" and a bunch of nazi-adjacent symbols with plausible deniability but no outright swastika.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Strange is an understatement

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I heard it didn't air in all regions?

[–] jaaake 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] CarCdrCons 1 points 1 week ago

I saw it. I'm not in Louisiana or Los Angeles.