David Schwimmer is no friend of Kanye West.
Hours before the rapper, who now goes by the name Ye, was denied entry into the U.K. and the Wireless Festival he was to headline announced its cancellation, David Schwimmer took to social media to slam the rapper’s apology and applaud the companies that pulled their sponsorships from the Wireless Festival.
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In a carousel post on Instagram, Schwimmer addressed the situation with a four-screen statement headed by a graphic of worn posters pasted on top of each other with the words: “I’M SORRY,” “NOT SORRY,” “I’M SORRY,” “I’M A NAZI.”
Schwimmer began the letter portion of his post by thanking “Pepsi, PayPal and Diageo” for having the “moral clarity” to pull their sponsorships from the Wireless Festival, “which disgraced itself recently by scheduling Ye (formerly Kanye West) to headline.”
Later in the post, Schwimmer calls Ye “an artist who became one of the most recognizable hate-mongering bigots in the world.”
“For years, Ye used his considerable celebrity to promote hate and violence against Jews, spreading antisemitic lies and stereotypes to his 33 million followers – more than twice the number of Jewish people alive today,” he added.
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The Friends star went on to remind his 7.7 million followers that the rapper released a song called “Heil Hitler” less than a year ago that was banned from all the major streaming platforms and added that Kanye sold swastika T-shirts on his website, proclaimed that he was a Nazi and threaten to kill Jews.
Schwimmer acknowledged that Ye apologized about two months ago but suggested it was “perhaps part of a PR scheme,” adding that the rapper has apologized before.
He also called out those who appear to be supporting his comeback, which included a recent concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., asking if the Kroenke family, which owns the stadium and the Los Angeles Rams, were aware of Kanye’s remarks, as well as Lauryn Hill, Travis Scott, CeeLo Green and Don Toliver – “artists who seem to shrug off his history of rabid antisemitism. Or maybe endorse it?”
In the final page of his post, Schwimmer writes that if Kanye “was sincere, he would take action to repair the damage he caused.” The actor offered a few suggestions the rapper could follow to redeem himself, including pulling and disavowing the song “Heil Hitler,” meeting with Jewish leaders and artists, and donating funds to Jewish charities.
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