Kanye West receiving his honorary degree.Photo: Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty
In 2004,Kanye WestreleasedThe College Dropout.Today, he’s now without his honorary degree.
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The take-back of the degree is just the latest domino in a series of consequences for West — who last week told InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that he believed “every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler,” as he added, “I like Hitler.” During the show, West said Nazis “did good things too; we’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time.” Hitler murdered approximatelysix million European Jews and at least five million prisoners of war.
In recent months, West’s billionaire status fell after losing dealswith Adidas,BalenciagaandGap.
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Most recently,Elon Musksuspended Ye from Twitter— where he’s been suspended before — after the artist posted an image of a swastika inside a Star of David. “I tried my best,” Musk posted on Twitter Dec. 2. “Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.”
West was previously banned from Twitter in October over a tweet that said he planned to go “death con [sic] 3 on Jewish people.” His account was reinstated in November.
PresidentJoe Bidenhad since issued a denunciation of antisemitism one day after West’s “Hitler” remarks and his uploading of a swastika to Twitter.
“I just want to make a few things clear: The Holocaust happened,” Biden wrote. “Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity.”
source: people.com
