David Schwimmer calls on Musk to ban Kanye West from X after ‘hate-filled, ignorant’ antisemitic rant
Actor David Schwimmer has called on Elon Musk to ban Kanye West from X after he made a series of antisemitic posts.
The Friends star pointed to a number of posts by West in a lengthy post to his eight million followers on Instagram.
West, now known as Ye, wrote, “I’m a Nazi,” and “I don’t like or trust no Jewish person, and this is completely sober with no Hennessy.”
“I’m racist. Stereotypes exist for a reason and they all be true,” West wrote. “You can get money with Jewish people but they always gonna steal and invite you over to they house on Friday.”
Schwimmer cited a number of other antisemitic comments by West, including, “Jewish people actually hate white people and use black people.”
“I love Hitler. Now what b******,” the artist wrote. “I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments.”
Schwimmer called on Musk, the owner of X, to remove West from the platform.
“This is so 2022,” said Schwimmer. “We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate-filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk.”
“Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X,” he told Musk. “That’s twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence.”
“His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews,” the actor argued. “I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that he identifies as a Nazi (which implies he wants to exterminate ALL marginalized communities including his own) or the fact that there is not sufficient OUTRAGE to remove and ban him from all social media at this point.”
“Silence is complicity,” he added.
The Independent has contacted X for comment.
West also posted pictures of the actor Oliver Masucci playing Adolph Hitler in the satirical movie Look Who’s Back, as well as a picture of Musk himself – the only person West follows on X – throwing up his right arm at an inauguration event for Donald Trump in what was widely interpreted as a “salute.” West added the caption “Hail Elon.”
Broadcaster and former newspaper editor Piers Morgan slammed Ye on X, saying that he’s “deliberately violating nearly every rule X has.. anyone else doing this would have already been suspended.”
