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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Yeah, this is like losing, “the game”.
Oh god dammit!
Fuck I lost too
Oh FFS
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Just enough time for Adidas to try and unload the rest of the sneakers now that everyone is done being mad.
Same. And now I wish I still hadn’t thought of that trash.
I hadn’t until last night’s Fury vs Ngannou boxing match, where the commentators kept mentioning how the Supreme Omnipotent Lord Excellency of Saudi Arabia had invited Kanye West as a guest of honor to the event, that he was sitting in the super VIP area, every bowel movement he made, etc.