This is exactly why Kanye West’s Recent Interviews to Fight the Plague very dangerous. Ye has more than 50 million followers on Instagram and Twitter combined. His words carry weight and he has no responsibility to know others will trust him because of his lowly and unworthy celebrity status. At the end of the Georgia and Florida neutral school SEC game in Jacksonville, someone predicted the statement “Kanye was right about the Jews!” on the TIAA Bank Field transcript.
West lost its partnerships with Adidas and other brands after numerous hostile comments. The announcement seen in Jacksonville is strikingly similar to the one seen last weekend on a banner hanging on Highway 405 in Los Angeles, with another asking passing cars to honk their horns if they agreed, while saluting the Nazis. Anti-Defamation Leaguewith a mission to prevent persecution of Jews and provide equal treatment for all, detected 2,717 anti-Semitism events in 2021, up 34% from 2020. This averages up to more than 7 such incidents per day.
It is another disturbing example of a recent horrendous anti-Semitism trend, joining the examples of Jason Whitlock and Kyrie Irving Post objectionable content on social media. The TIAA Bank Stadium is home to the Jaguars, who are fortunate to not be playing in Florida this week and could turn even more fans over to the opposing rhetoric. They are in London playing the Broncos. That message is not a mistake. Someone with access to the transcript intentionally put it there and should be disciplined. Nothing else is acceptable for posting that. If I work at the Southeast Conference, I want to make sure that no one from the Bulldogs or Gators athletic department is involved. If not, I will consider moving the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” to a campus location next season.
