‘Elon Stole My Nazi Swag’

Kanye West is tweeting again. 

Starting Thursday night, the once-noted musician took to his X account where he started spewing a lot of the same kind of antisemitic stuff that got him banned from the platform last time. There were also homophobic, misogynistic, and ableist posts — grim sign of the times stuff — and instead of “BILL COSBY INNOCENT,” we got “@DonaldTrump PLEASE FREE MY BROTHER PUFF.”

All the vile posts are still up (for now). We should all recognize petulant attention-seeking behavior when we see it, and there’s nothing particularly novel about Ye recycling “Slavery is a choice,” or expressing his admiration for the Nazis and asking to be called “YAYDOLF YITLER.” 

We’ve been here before. In Dec. 2022, Ye delivered another string of antisemitic posts, including an image of a swastika intertwined with a Star of David. X owner Elon Musk banned Ye, saying he’d “violated our rule against incitement to violence.” His account, however, was reinstated about eight months later.

It remains to be seen if Musk — who may be a bit busy ransacking the federal government to pay attention — will think the same this time around, especially in this new political paradigm where “protecting free speech” is sooooo important. Maybe even more so, it’s hard to imagine Musk would want to silence a super famous person when they seem to be speaking so highly of him. “ELON STOLE MY NAZI SWAG AT THE INAUGURATION   YOOOO MY GUY     GET YOUR OWN THIRD RALE.”