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Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it (www.nbcnews.com)

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Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.

Spotify, SoundCloud and other tech platforms have worked to remove a new song from Ye that praises Adolf Hitler, but the song and its video have continued to proliferate online including across X, where it has racked up millions of views.

On various mainstream and alternative tech platforms this week, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been able to share his latest song, titled “Heil Hitler,” along with its companion title, “WW3,” which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.

While some platforms have taken steps to attempt to pull down the song, others have seemingly let it spread freely.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

"We're not Nazis! Elon and Laura Ingram didn't do the salute! Yo did you hear that ye song on TotallyNotNaziland X? So good!"

[–] [email protected] 130 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It was so funny when Alex Jones was like “yeah Kanye we know what you mean, the Nazis did some good things for the German people under Hitler but you don’t ‘love’ Hitler.”

And Kanye was like

“I LOOOOOOOOOVE HITLERRRRRRRRR!”

[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know you're insane when you make Alex Jones look reasonable.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I'll break it down for you:

He can't have his kids because he doesn't take his medicine, so he tries to get his kids back by becoming a Nazi. Background singers say N***** Heil Hitler for the chorus and then Hitler is saying shit in German at the end. It's pretty bad, has no logic, but does have rhyming words.

If you want to watch it to see how truly shitty it is, here is a nitter link from probably a sketch person. It's not giving traffic to them because it's nitter, not X: https://nitter.net/jakeshieldsajj/status/1920322039056838970#m

Edit: They're scrubbing the internet of this one, I can't even get it to show up on archive. https://archive.is/urjlq

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I’ll fight Kanye for charity. Live on the internet.

Tell him punkrocksportsfan is not afraid to fight him. Why’s he afraid of punkrocksportsfan?

I’ll fight that dude. Don’t gotta get ready if you stay ready, right.

Name the time and place Mr Kanye West.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would like to pre-purchase tickets for this event.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

I don't think this violates Twitter's de facto policies though.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But he's totally not a Nazi because he is black.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

No, everyone knows he's a lunatic doing it for attention. When you're that rich, the people who will tell you "No" are very few, and he can afford to ignore them. Unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Doesn’t he self identify as a Nazi?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (11 children)

He says that, but it's for attention. He's rich enough to not suffer any consequences for his behavior.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Who listens to this shitty artist anyways. I get the shock or discovery plays, but dude is straight trash anyways lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

i WISH i didn’t like his stuff, but years ago (pre-Nazi shit by a long time) he used to be a really talented artist and he had a really major effect on rap as a genre. i don’t listen to his old stuff since the Nazi shit cuz he needs consequences fr, no matter how small, but it honestly sucks a lot cuz he has some really really great music. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of the GOAT albums imo, and as sad as it is to say about someone profoundly mentally ill i think it woulda been best for his career if he died around 2016 😭

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

People have their own music tastes and that's okay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For example, you now have something other than Skrewdriver to listen to.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I could never stand him even at the peak of his popularity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The "Golddigger" song wasn't terrible, but then, I'm not a huge rap fan, so that's the only song of his I know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i couldn't name a single one, or recognize him or his songs from the audio alone. and i'm only cursed with knowing what the asshat even looks like because the attention whore gets the media attention he craves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Understood. I was just stating my experience.

I have no desire to delve deeper.

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[–] [email protected] 319 points 3 days ago (8 children)

It’s literally called “Heil Hitler”.

I think anyone who defends him needs to back up now.

[+] [email protected] -248 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (44 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah, if he's singing about how we should all gas the Jews, or kill all the Palestinians, or mass murder all Ukrainians, it's all fine, it's just art, you see?

I'm glad I don't have your big smooth brain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Are you saying you think it’s ok to give a platform to content explicitly promoting genocide and Nazism so long as it has a beat?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

He's a Nazi and he should be fucking shot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (5 children)

You need to spend some time thinking on the (misnamed) "paradox of tolerance". The idea you're espousing is exactly the most critical, fundamental misunderstanding of tolerance as a moral value.

The "paradox of tolerance" is the idea that one must even tolerate the intolerant - it would be a paradox because this tolerance ultimately ensures the unbridled spread of intolerance. Folks weakly on the left have misunderstood this forever.

But there is no paradox, never has been. Tolerance must never be given to the hatefully intolerant. Nazism can never be tolerated, it must be defeated as quickly as possible everywhere it sprouts up. And I do absolutely mean violently, I am not talking about just simple ostracism or censorship.

A society that tolerates the hatefully intolerant is fully doomed. Please, come to realize that you are not advocating for anything high-minded, you are advocating for the destruction of all things beautiful, art or otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Who gets to decide what art is objectionable and have it censored?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Is it still music and art that should be platformed when it calls for genocide?

Edit: whoops I fell for sealioning again

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Dude. There's a limit to that expression. There's a reason why nobody likes Nazi's and they deserve a punch in the face at minimum. Don't be on the repeat side of history by performing some kind mental gymnastics to preserve freedom of expression and inadvertantly protect Nazism with that argument. That's what apologists do now and did in the past.

Always remember this: if you have 10 people eating dinner at a table and 1 of them is a Nazi, how many nazi's do you have? The answer is 10 Nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 days ago

We're throwing ourselves toward an authoritarian and dystopian future.

Precisely why we must not allow the glorification of nazism to perpetuate.

Be the change you desire

That's illegal.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

While this can certainly be interpreted as defending awful people (which I'm sure someone will, prepare for downvotes because many only read the first paragraph and do not understand nuance) with an awful message, I tend to agree with you.

Music is art, and like any artwork its quality does not depend on its message. I have to admit that the gay fish was never the kind of artist I enjoyed simply because the rap tracks I like are few and far between. (Wtf is drill rap?)

But to use a different angle: I've always been a metal head, and there's quite a lot of black metal that I enjoy. And as most sensible people understand, that doesn't make me a satanist, nor do I endorse burning of churches.

So the obvious question is then: Is Ye's newer stuff any good? Well, fuck if I know. I cannot name a single song Ye made. But he's not exactly making it more tempting to try and like his stuff. Anyway, fuck him and fuck the horse he rode in on.

EDIT: I did some research. I remember Golddigger. That's all.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So we're doing nazi apologism now?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago

They're really embracing the "let him cook" meme.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Take your meds, Kanye

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Why? We're giving him exactly what a narcissist needs like the rest of us need oxygen:

Attention.

Almost the entire world's media is geared to push outrage.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mental illness is no longer an acceptable excuse.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is full blown malignant narcissism. And it makes people associated with him lots of money.