Timestamp: 03 December 2022 @ 1128 Pacific
(JTA) - Two weeks after returning from a suspension over his tweets threatening Jews, Kanye West has been booted from Twitter again - this time after posting a picture of a swastika.
West, the rapper and designer who now goes by Ye, tweeted the swastika shortly after wrapping a three-hour-long appearance on Infowars, the streaming show hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, in which he repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler, said he loved Nazis and denied that the Holocaust happened as it did.
The picture that Ye posted - and that he and his children had been photographed wearing on shirts - was not the straightforward Nazi logo but instead a swastika inside a Star of David, a mashup of symbols associated with Raelism, a movement that believes that aliens created humanity. He indicated that it would be his presidential campaign's logo.
"I tried my best," Musk tweeted late Thursday night in reply to a user urging him to help Ye. "Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended."
Musk, who is known to be vindictive toward his personal detractors, said he was not penalizing Ye for posting an unflattering picture of him. "This is fine," Musk posted below the picture before Ye's account was disabled and emphasizing the point in another tweet.
Musk did not comment on Ye's Infowars appearance, which captivated news consumers as information about it was shared widely in real time Thursday afternoon. Ye's appearance on the show, which came a week after he dined with former President Donald Trump and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, drew sharp criticism from Jewish leaders, hate watchdogs and others alarmed by his sustained and mostly unchallenged praise for Hitler.
"There is nothing to like about Nazis or Hitler, the architect of the mass murder of 6 million Jews," the Jewish Federations of North America tweeted in a statement. "Unfortunately, Ye's latest comments continue to amplify antisemitism and hatred, the breeding grounds for physical violence against the Jewish people. It's time for those with big platforms who give him a stage to realize they are complicit."
"Conservatives who have mistakenly indulged Kanye West must make it clear that he is a pariah," leaders of the Republican Jewish Coalition said in a statement that alluded to but did not name Trump. "Enough is enough."
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted that Ye's comments "are not just vile and offensive: they put Jews in danger." He followed up with a tweeted directed to Musk, whose behavior since acquiring Twitter in October led the ADL to call for a boycott by advertisers: "Is this someone you still want to warmly welcome back to the platform? Jews right now need allies, not enablers."
Amid the uproar over Ye's Infowars appearance, an account for Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee deleted a tweet that had come to represent commitment by a portion of the party to far-right ideas. "Kanye. Elon. Trump." read the tweet, which was posted Oct. 6, as West first drew criticism for unveiling a "White Lives Matter" shirt at a Paris fashion show. In the months since, Trump has launched his presidential campaign and dined with Holocaust deniers, Musk has eviscerated Twitter and Ye has leaned into antisemitism, but the tweet had remained online.
Also on Thursday, the social media platform Parler announced that Ye's proposal to purchase it had been canceled. A spokesperson said Ye and Parler "mutually agreed" earlier this month not to move forward with the acquisition, which Ye had vowed after being suspended from Twitter. Parler is popular among conservatives whose ideas have violated Twitter's rules, and Ye said he would preservative as a place for right-wing views. After his suspension from Twitter Thursday night, he posted to Truth Social, the platform owned by Trump, who has not posted to Twitter since Musk restored his account.
Ye's indefinite Twitter suspension marks the first removal of a high-profile user restored by Musk as part of his vow to allow most speech on the platform. It generated criticism from free-speech absolutists on the platform and elsewhere who had believed him to share their views unconditionally.
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Comment: Musk is quoted as stating, ""I tried my best [...] he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended."
I do not see any incitement. All I see is drama queenery. Man up, Elon. Don't you have better things to do?
Perhaps what Elon Musk means to say is that seeing symbols that confuse him incites him to violence. But that is a personal problem for him to take up with his psychotherapist, not something to inflict upon Twitter.
Perhaps what Elon Musk means to say is that for many of the people he was stupid enough to give his direct number, seeing symbols that confuse them incites them to violence. But, again, these are psychological problems.
Perhaps what Elon Musk means to say is that the people he surrounds himself with worship triangles and hexagrams, cannot separate them in their minds from the concepts they represent, and cannot bear to see them defaced with right angles.
If we compare analogous situations - the Pope's response to Black Sabbath record jackets, for instance, or a Buddhist's, or a Christian's, response to seeing the Asian symbol of polar opposites conflated with the Cross, we quickly see that the people Elon Musk is taking his guidance from on this matter are woefully immature ... troublemakers ... or both.
Perhaps Elon means, his venture capitalist backers will withdraw their funds if he does not let them yank his strings and make him dance. Dance, Elon, dance!
There are people who can see that symbol and not feel they are being incited. Simply knowing that someone is trying to provoke one into an emotional reaction should be enough to motivate most people to not be provoked.
Modern psychological theory, most of it shaped and promoted by therapists who would describe themselves as Jewish, agrees that no person can "make" another person angry. No person can control another person. This is a tenet of modern psychology. Each of us is fundamentally responsible for our own actions - and that also includes responsibility for the inner states that lead to actions. We submit that this is not a secret that is being concealed from Jews and that they, too, possess this information - even if they pretend they do not.
As a scarred veteran of many years in state penitentiaries stated it, in a group therapy session we had the opportunity to attend, once ... "You're in the driver's seat, man." You cannot put it any more clearly than that.
It is possible that this phrase - "You're in the driver's seat" - might not appeal to a man whose entire life has been taken up in eliminating the act of driving from the realm of human experience. Elon's psychotherapist is probably aware of this bias and may have even brought it up with Elon, in therapy.
Incidentally, we think therapy is a very valuable experience. We think therapy promotes healthy communication amongst the various elements of one's psyche and, with practice, this internal conversation can be maintained without professional assistance. Please don't get us wrong. Anyone with responsibility for assets in excess of, say, seven or eight figures should probably be seeing a real professional psychotherapist - that would be a licensed psychotherapist who sees their own licensed psychotherapist, regularly - at least once a month. It would be irresponsible not to, we think.
We think Elon Musk should just let people be themselves so that we can all see just what sort of people they really are and quit trying to make us all act like grownups since so many of us clearly are not.