Kanye West is canceled on all social media due to the rant that he went on in recent weeks. As a result, many interviewers, podcasters, and hosts try to get a grasp of him. Their intention is so West can explain more about what he has behind his thoughts that got him in the situation he is in now.
Lex Fridman, is a person that is affected by Kanye West’s most recent anti-Semitic rants. Coming from a Jewish family, Lex Fridman decided to invite the rapper on his podcast to try and pull an apology to the Jewish community from him. However, he did not succeed.
Jewish Podcaster Lex Fridman Failed To Make Kanye West Apologize For Anti-Semitic Comments
Lex Fridman aired the two-and-a-half-hour podcast episode on Tuesday. In the interview, West continuously refers to his bad experience with certain people of Jewish heritage. During the greater part of the episode, Lex Fridman tries to push back on the rapper as he repeatedly rants against Jews.
Lex Fridman is a scientist coming from Jewish heritage, born in Russia. He is a professor who teaches artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is a famous podcaster. His podcast became popular after he started interviewing controversial people. Amongst his guests, we can find Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West and Joe Rogan.
During the two-and-a-half hours of conversation, Kanye West kept repeating anti-Semitic falsehoods. He doubled down on his claims that Jewish people control the media and medicine. He blamed Jewish people for his struggles in the past, and for the harmful ‘deals’ throughout his career. Furthermore, the rapper went on and blamed the Jewish people for a ‘holocaust’ against the Black community in America.
“It’s genocide and population control that Black people are in today in America that is promoted by the music and media that Black people make that Jewish record labels get paid off of.” – Kanye West told Fridman.
Throughout the whole interview, Kanye West put himself in a corner with nothing to reply several times. However, then he did what he does best – he changed the subject.
Lex Fridman subtly compared Kanye West to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels on one occasion during the interview. Kanye West told Fridman that he thinks the phrase ‘Jewish media’ is ‘redundant’. Flex Fridman replied that this sentence is something he would expect to come out from someone akin to a nazi propagandist.
During the lengthy interview, we witness Lex Fridman’s desperate tries to make up Kanye West’s mind. His tries to put West in a position to apologize are not successful. The rapper seems like he doesn’t want to acknowledge that he made a big mistake by generalizing and attacking the whole Jewish community.
Furthermore, Kanye West claimed that 90% of Black people in entertainment “are in some way tied to Jewish businesspeople”. Fridman saw where his is going and again warned the rapper that this statement may be a ‘whistle’ that may cause harmful consequences.
“When you say ‘Jewish media or Jews are controlling the voice of Black artists’ angry people may act on it.” – Lex Fridman said. “When they hear Jewish media, that hate starts heading to Jewish people.” – he desperately tried to explain.
Instead of pointing out a group of people, Fridman urged the rapper to point out individuals. “Don’t call them Jews, call them by their name and start a war against those individuals.”
Kanye West continued the rant by making a hideous analogy. He gave an example of a rape victim. He compared himself to a rape victim that says she hates men. According to the rapper, his hate speech is a natural ‘instinct’. It comes out once you’ve suffered harm from some group of people. He said that for this imaginary rape victim all men are bad. The same goes for Jewish people in his eyes.
The podcast episode created a massive backlash on social media. Many people come to Kanye West’s defense and support his narrative. And that is what is strange in this whole situation. You have a man that clearly has mental issues. A man having a hard time focusing and speaking about a certain thing, and often speaks nonsense. How does someone like that manage to build a successful music career? How does someone like him become one of the most famous fashion designers?
However, there are many that despise the rapper. The majority of people wonder how he manages to make these appearances on popular platforms after making such controversial claims.
“Lex Fridman, what the fuck are you doing? I understand that I’m promoting it but this is horrendous. You’re platforming antisemitism and mania. Your “pushback” is so feeble it’s meaningless.” – Michael Ian Black tweeted.
In addition to all this, Kanye West took the stand and attacked several other public personalities while on the podcast. Recently, Howard Stern said something against him and Kanye didn’t waste the opportunity to reply to him. Stern told that West is ‘depressing’ and ‘like Hitler’. This deeply offended the rapper, so he referred to Howard Stern as an irrelevant ‘sad old man’.
“By the way, I’m antagonizing you, Howard Stern. I used to be a fan of you and now you’re just doing clickbait like everybody else. Now you’re just a sad old man Howard. Howard Stern, this is the first time anyone said your name in years. Your family doesn’t say your name unless they’re calling you to pay their bills.” – Kanye West said. “’I think he’s just jealous. Not just jealous of my c***, he’s jealous that I started my campaign earlier than him. You gotta let go of that jealousy, Howard.”