Kanye West to Jewish Adidas employee: 'Kiss a picture of Hitler every day'

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Kanye West to Jewish Adidas employee: 'Kiss a picture of Hitler every day'
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An explosive new investigation by the New York Times details how Adidas employees experienced frequent anti-Semitism from Grammy Award-winning rapper and Yeezy designer Kanye West for nearly a decade.

Adidas officially ended its partnership with the rapper and producer, who now goes by Ye, in October of 2022, after multiple virulently anti-Semitic remarks, including a tweet in which the rapper threatened to go "death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE."

However, West's pattern of anti-Semitism dates back to at least 2013, according to the Times' reporting.

At the start of her report, Megan Twohey detailed how, in his initial meeting with Adidas executives at their German headquarters in 2013, West expressed his dissatisfaction with a proposed shoe design by taking a marker and drawing a swastika — the display of which is banned in Germany — on the design. He also reportedly told Jewish Adidas executive Jon Wexler, who at the time was Adidas' global director of entertainment and influencer marketing, to "kiss a picture of Hitler every day."

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Does anyone know where I can find a full video of his Alex Jones interview where he’s completely out of his mind? Everything on YouTube is a commentary of it and I’m not giving Infowars a penny by visiting their site.

Edit: https://archive.org/details/ye-and-alex-jones-break-the-internet-in-must-see-new-interview_20221202

The best part was that Alex Jones and whoever that other chud was were actually trying to be voices of reason lol.

You know you're bad when someone like Alex Jones has to be the voice of reason.

Watching Alex Jones keep trying to throw him lifelines and him swat them away as the white supremacist sat on the side nodding and grinning was beyond amusing.