 The thing about it me and Adidas is like I could literally say anti-semitic shit and they can't drop me I Could say anti-semitic things and Adidas can't drop me Now what? Now what? Turns out that's not exactly true. Adidas released this statement today. Ye's recent comments and actions have been unacceptable hateful and dangerous and they violate the company's values of diversity and inclusion mutual respect and fairness after a thorough review the company has taken the Decision to terminate the partnership with ye immediately and production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to ye and his companies So it turns out Adidas can drop you ye now what? Now this brand deal was so integral to ye's wealth that as a result of Adidas dropping this brand deal with him He is losing his status as a billionaire as Forbes reports now They go on to explain without Adidas ye is worth $400 million the remainder of ye's fortune Forbes estimates comes from real estate cash his music catalog and a 5% stake in ex-wife Kim Kardashian shapewear firm skims losing Adidas was the final nail in ye's net worth coffin Gap terminated its Yeezy partnership in September earlier this month JP Morgan reportedly unbanked ye French fashion house Balenciaga nixed their relationship with ye on October 21st Just weeks after he walked their runway at Paris fashion week and just yesterday production company MRC said it would not air a completed documentary on ye and talent agency CAA where ye was signed dumped him So in other words, he is in the finding out phase after fucking around now some people will call this cancel culture I call it consequences because even if we all have freedom of speech None of us have freedom from consequences and it turns out there is a limit To where these companies just don't want to associate with someone because they're bad for business and being overtly Anti-semitic apparently is bad for business who would have thought that now It's not just that Kanye West As an individual is making these statements and they happen in a vacuum. That's not actually the case This isn't just any ordinary individual. He has a lot of power and influence He has access to a lot of big platforms. So when he says things like this that are incredibly bigoted It has consequences what he says ripples through society For example over the weekend over the 405 in Los Angeles Nazis hung these banners showing support for Kanye West telling drivers to honk if they think that Kanye West is right about the Jews And as you can see they're all doing their little Nazi salutes So what Kanye West did quite literally was emboldened nazis in the same way that trump emboldened bigots in this country Kanye West emboldened nazis and anti-semites So what this does is it sends a message to all of the bigots everywhere that their bigotry Is still not welcome in society even if Kanye West for a moment made it seem as if it was socially permissible To come out of the closet as an overt anti-semite turns out No, you can't really do that unless you want to be ostracized from society And it's good that to some degree bigots are still outcasted from society. We need to make bigots social pariahs We need to make them afraid to espouse their dangerous bigoted rhetoric because in a polite civilized society There should be no room for this bigotry And if you are going to say bigoted things like this throw an entire group of people under the bus Then they're going to be consequences for it again. You have freedom of speech, but not freedom from consequences So I think that this is a good move and it's an obvious move Because you know as much as Kanye West said with the white lives matter shirt and the support for Donald Trump These brands still didn't drop him. So this kind of shows that like You can go pretty far. You can push it pretty far until they finally draw the line And thankfully these businesses are drawing the line at overt anti-semitism because if you don't draw the line here Then there is no line. You could just say whatever you could just say straight up Nazi shit And still be accepted in society still have business deals and that's just not permissible So we need to make it not profitable for people to be bigots because we need to disincentivize this sort of rhetoric and behavior Now Candice Owens chimed in and predictably you're going to be surprised by this I know she is defending Kanye West She wrote this via twitter as a company adidas has every right to sever ties with whomever that said they better pay Yay, we are not going to witness. Shea's intellectual property be stolen and his life bankrupted while being told black people need to shut up About it or suffer the same consequence too many black celebrities in my inbox telling me that they believe what is happening Tia is wrong But they are scared to speak out because executives are telling them to stay out of it Livelihoods are being threatened right now over association. This is wrong corporate messaging over the last four years Has been that every black feeling is valid because black lives matter even though that resulted in our neighborhoods being destroyed Now those same corporations are telling black talent to shut up or lose everything they have Okay, first of all, I just don't believe you you don't know that many celebrities most celebrities and most people in general Think that you're a joke the one celebrity that you know Is Kanye West we all know that because we've seen photographic evidence that you are indeed close with him You even convinced him to buy your husband's failing company parlor But the only other celebrities that i'm assuming she knows is like the actor who played Hercules I don't remember his name and the guy who created the dilbert comics But you don't know all of these celebrities gandas stop pretending you don't have that much cloud She's making it seem as if all of these celebrities and droves are reaching out to her specifically Because they want her to consult them about how distraught they are that Kanye West was predictably Cancelled after saying these horribly anti-semitic things shut up She's trying to pretend as if there's this huge conspiracy if they want to say That Kanye shouldn't have been fired by adidas or let go They can say that nobody believes that there's going to be any real consequences But to me it's just it's astonishing that the people who Repeatedly shill for capitalism don't understand how capitalism actually functions These corporations don't actually care about any social cause Shocker right all that they do is make decisions that are good for business And so turns out that supporting a movement that is against the extrajudicial murder Of black americans by police officers Turns out that's more popular than a celebrity who's saying Disgustingly anti-semitic things of course, they're going to promote a social cause That is popular And move away from somebody who's saying disgusting things like this. How is this surprising to anyone? I'm just surprised that this didn't happen sooner and they didn't sever ties with Kanye West After the white lives matter thing and the trump support and whatnot So I mean they give these celebrities a lot of leeway to say Basically what they want to say it's not like they're intentionally Conspiring to limit the free speech of people like Kanye West. It's that he went so far past the line That nobody wants to be associated with him because Kanye West now is inextricably linked to anti-semitism. So if you're associated with Kanye West Then you are associated with anti-semitism, right? So why would you do business with somebody who hates jewish people? He very clearly does not like jewish people, right? So If you are a jewish person Why would you buy adidas when this brand associates with somebody who doesn't like them for who they are? I Mean it's a business decision. Candice. It's as simple as that the fact that you a capitalist don't know this It's pretty fucking embarrassing, but I mean it's Candice Owen So she's either lying or completely misled or misleading her audience So everything that she says should be taken with less than a grain of salt because this person is disingenuous This person is a grifter But at the end of the day I for one think that it is absolutely fantastic that Kanye West was Cancelled because I'm sorry as I stated earlier there should be no room for bigotry in modern society So if you are going to say disgusting reprehensible things about an entire group of people Then yeah, I'm glad that it's not profitable for these businesses to associate with you as much as I hate capitalism At least rat this state where businesses will lose money They will lose profits if they associate with explicit bigots Now they give a lot of people passes right JK Rowling hasn't been canceled despite her overt transphobia There are other folks who say terrible things and they haven't lost Anything I mean Dave Chappelle is explicitly transphobic and after said transphobia He got more specials from Netflix So they allow these celebrities a lot of leeway But apparently there is still a line and Kanye West just managed to be the one celebrity that found that line Does this mean that he's like permanently canceled? No, I don't think so I think he's gonna be fine his net worth still is 400 million dollars. He's no longer a billionaire boo-hoo But he has 400 million dollars. He's gonna be okay. All right So I'm not gonna shed any tears for Kanye West. In fact, I am glad that he is facing consequences for his actions because again I want the message to be That we don't welcome Nazis and anti-semites in the society I want the message to be that if you come out of the closet as a bigot Well, people aren't going to want to associate with you We need to create that disincentive So people choose to not be bigots now how we dissuade people from being bigots I mean, you could use the stick or the carrot approach either way as a society We need to be pushing back against that and disincentivizing it and however we do it to me As long as it's getting done. I don't give a shit. So good. I'm glad he was fired I hope that if there's any other connections that he has business wise I hope that they drop him too. Fuck Kanye West