“All my n***** Nazis, n*****, heil Hitler.” This Shakespearean line is the chorus of Kanye “Ye” West’s latest song, “Heil Hitler,” in which he explains his descent into Nazism. The song begins with, “Man these people took my kids from me, then they froze my bank account. I got so much anger in me, got no way to take it out. Think I’m stuck in the matrix,” leaving you to fill in the blanks regarding the identity of “these people,” before adding, “So I became a Nazi, yeah, b****, I’m the villain.”
“These people”? Somehow, I don’t think he’s talking about Child Protective Services.
To eradicate any hint of subtlety, the song ends with an Adolf Hitler speech from 1935, in which the führer — who, by the way, warned against the contamination of the white race by “negro blood” — calls on his supporters to “stand up for me like I have stood up for you.”
Of course, this song sparked a wave of condemnation because the vast majority of Americans still agree that Hitler is one of the greatest monsters in the history of humanity and that Nazism is an evil that deserves no quarter. As a result, the video was banned on multiple platforms. But the song also received support, supposedly in the context of free speech.
Drug-and-sex-addict-turned-online-Christian-guru Russell Brand called the song “uncancellable” because West “reached such a zenith in the culture that he couldn’t be killed,” adding that “I think people would like it if he died. Why? Because he’s a problem for their agenda. Also, let’s be honest; the hook is catchy.”
Who are the “people” he’s talking about?
Meanwhile, podcaster Joe Rogan, who has dabbled in antisemitism-adjacent rhetoric for several years, including arguing that Jews love money like Italians love pizza, also called the song “kinda catchy” and said that the song was “the ultimate pushing back.”
After noting that he doesn’t support the statement, and that neither racism nor antisemitism “is good,” Rogan focused on the issue of speech.
“There’s a benefit to just letting people talk. Like let people say whatever the f*** they wanna say even if it sucks. This is the benefit of Twitter, but this is also the bad part. It’s like the f***ing song has so many millions of hits on Twitter. It’s been banned from every platform. But is it good to ban things from platforms, or is it better to let it be out there and let people talk about it?” Rogan asked his guest, comedian Tom Segura. “And then it kind of supports what he says, which is that there’s this concerted effort if you talk about Jewish people, that they’re going to remove you from everything, remove you from banking, which is what he’s saying, they run everything.”
“There are certain people you are allowed to pick on and make jokes about or mock or say something, and you can get away with it,” Rogan added, citing the comparatively mild reaction to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico as evidence, as if there is no difference between celebrating and promoting the ideology responsible for the murder of millions of Jews and a single uncouth comment about Puerto Rico.
In the end, Rogan is right but also spectacularly wrong. Platforms should not ban West’s “Heil Hitler” song. This is simply an example of the extreme negative consequences of the First Amendment, which is a foundational pillar of American civilization that cannot be diluted. West’s song, however offensive it may be, does not explicitly incite violence, so it should be permitted under the banner of free speech.
But Rogan’s argument that banning such a song “supports” West’s claim that “Jewish people” are “going to remove you from everything” and “run everything”? That’s playing in the same antisemitic sandbox as West, while engaging in the conspiratorial circular argumentation that underpins antisemitism itself, in which Jews are to blame for the demons in Kanye West’s imagination and the entirely predictable backlash to West’s attention-seeking pro-Nazi tirade.
Let’s ignore that many of the platforms that banned West’s song are not even owned or controlled by Jews and focus on the idea that Jewish opposition to the celebration of the most prolific mass murderer of Jews in history proves West’s conspiracy theories.
It’s fine to make a First Amendment argument here, but is that what Rogan was doing? No, what he was doing — through ignorance, naivety, or malice — was accepting West’s premise that Jews do control banking, the media, and speech. Sorry, but you can’t tell me you oppose antisemitism and West’s song while agreeing with its core message.
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