Among the star-studded Super Bowl ads that viewers saw during Sunday’s game was an awkward 30-second spot, filmed vertically on an iPhone, in which the rapper Ye talks about his new teeth and instructs the audience to go to Yeezy.com.

As of the morning after the game, when they visited the site, shoppers could find exactly one item for sale: a white T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    If anything says pure aryan blood, it’s definitely not Kanye. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_racial_theories

    The Nazis considered the putative “Aryan race” a superior “master race” with Germanic peoples as representative of Nordic race being best branch, and they considered Jews, mixed-race people, Slavs, Romani, Black People, and certain other ethnicities racially inferior subhumans, whose members were only suitable for slave labor and extermination.

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    152 months ago

    Would be real sad if a DDOS happened to a yeezy. What a fucking nut job this freak is.

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    Oh to be so rich that getting high at the dentist could result in buying superbowl ad space and shooting said ad immediately on selfie cam.

    I probably wouldn’t use the ad space to sell a mega basic Nazi t-shirt though…

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      Getting high at the dentist is very profitable if you’re a terrible person. It resulted in L. Ron Hubbard starting Scientology.

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    Took a screenshot. Not happy about uploading a picture of a swastika, but wanted to capture it in case he backtracks.

    ::: spoiler :::

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      Whaaaaaaaaat the fuck. That is a Shopify store, and their terms of service explicitly state

      You can’t breach the social contract of commerce.
      There are activities we don’t allow on the platform because they breach the social contract of commerce. This means you can’t call for, or threaten, violence against specific people or groups. And you can’t sell products that facilitate intentional self-harm.

      https://www.shopify.com/legal/aup

      Pretty sure this shirt calls for violence against Jewish people. Anyone who cares to join me in reporting it can do so here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/tools/report-an-issue/report-a-merchant

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          12 months ago

          Hell yeah, talk about collective action! I’m sure ours weren’t the only reports, but every pebble counts in a landslide. Thanks for letting us know 😊

      • Realitätsverlust
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        calls for violence against Jewish people

        Considering that anti semitism is sadly cool again …

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          Well, “criticizing Israel’s government for committing a genocide” anti semitism is still bad. But “being a fucking Nazi” antisemitism is fine /s

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          92 months ago

          I mean there is def an uptick, but lets make sure we’re not conflating anti-Israel/anti-zionism/anti-genoside with anti-semitism.

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          42 months ago

          It always has for white supremacists, but recently Trump and Musk have emboldened them. They are no longer hiding behind dog whistles, they’re now seig heiling enthusiastically in public

          They are still the minority, anti-fascism is needed now more than ever. Nazi’s should never feel safe expressing their racist ideologies in public

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      202 months ago

      What a weird timeline we live in where a black man can make money selling half a million Nazi t-shirts to football fans.

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        22 months ago

        Assuming the shirts are print on demand, there’s a tiny amount of profit in that. I’m betting he just flushed 8 million down the toilet.

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    I met him on an aircraft a couple of months ago. He seemed so scared to be recognized. I said nothing to respect other passengers and the flight attendants but I’d have loved to have called him a nazi. Btw the flight was headed to Dubai