SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – It was a brief return, but Ye, the rapper and mogul formerly known as Kanye West, managed to make quite an impression on Twitter.
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West has now been suspended from Twitter once again after he posted an image of a swastika inside of a Star of David.
The tweet was made in tandem with several related to Balenciaga, a fashion brand that ended its relationship with West in response to other antisemitic remarks he’d made in the past.
The artist had been reinstated just a little over a month prior after it was suspended for similar issues.
This comes after a series of actions from the artist that seems to illustrate his descent into antisemitic rhetoric. Just on Thursday, he appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ podcast, Infowars, saying that he liked Adolf Hitler.
This proved even too much for Jones, who is most famous for falsely claiming that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was staged.
"Jones says outlandish things," Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent at Vox told KCBS Radio's Holly Quan on Friday. "But he has this way of speaking that he knows exactly the lines that you can cross in order to appeal to an audience without sounding like the wrong kind of conspiracy theorist."
It's about knowing your audience, and not casting the blame on say, all of the Jewish people, but the "Jewish mafia," said Beauchamp.
"They're one of several ethnic mafias that Alex Jones believes controls the world," he said.
But West does not seem to understand these nuances.
"He doesn't come from a political world," said Beauchamp. Instead, he plows ahead in this arena, breaks down the walls of this discourse, and exposes the game that’s being played by people like Jones.
Things really started going off the rails slowly about a month ago, when he tweeted that he was going to go "deathcon 3 on Jewish people," he said.
"He just does not know what he's talking about, in the political realm," said Beauchamp.
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