Kanye West

[dapsnotplimsolls]

Kanye West blocked from visiting the UK.

He was due to headline all three nights.

How can you be on the fence @dapsnotplimsolls ?

He’s been open about his views on Jews and made records praising Hitler. Have you missed that?

Yes, and there is this! ☝

Read my other posts.

Yes, so 3ish hours wireless could have juggled it,it just seems a shame the festival goes missing out.

We live in a climate of growing antisemitism, and you want to let a man who released a song called "Heil Hitler" perform in front of thousands of people?

What he needs to do is take his meds and get mental health support, not meet with British Jews.

You’ll see in a later post that I say Trump should also be blocked.

The ‘Yet….’ argument never works though because it means to correct one thing, everything else has to have been done right, always…Just because a person says something should be done in one instance doesn’t mean they agree with everything that has come before!

@user1484056932 were you dropped on your head to produce such a ridiculous analogy?

The festival are pissed off that the government has blocked their headliner, so they’re pulling the festival completely. Government & council now won’t get any of that revenue and income at all.

Neither will Wireless and they will piss off Wireless fans massively. It isn't and shouldn't be about one artist.

Celebrities banned from the UK after government blocks Kanye West | Metro News

Interesting comparisons here.

And so it should be.
People wanted 'take control of our borders' and that's exactly what we do! 😀

I’m a member of ‘the Jewish community’ - we are not some amorphous lump - I wouldn’t allow someone else to be appeased on my behalf.

And I’m delighted West is not coming here.

His poor mental health might excuse a single outburst but cannot justify the creation of a track that was recorded, mastered, marketed and released along with accompanying merchandise. It also can’t explain a lack of intervention by those around him.

As for free speech. It’s a qualified right in UK law and can be restricted to protect national security, public safety and to prevent disorder or crime. West’s presence would be an obvious risk.

Wireless have cancelled because their main sponsors have pulled out, I believe.

I've been medicated for poor mental health for 32 years now. There's been times that I've forgotten my meds, I've been in crisis, I haven't known where or who I am... Yet in all that time I don't recall penning a ditty HH or spouting antisemitic views, or being racist or homophobic... I've had a fair few words to say about Thatcher, Trump, Farage...

So can we lay off the MH bullshit as an excuse for this abhorrent arsewipe. His apologies sound as sincere as 3 year old caught sneaking biscuits... Sowwy...

Aww... Must be off his meds. He's ill.

No. He's an antisemitic cunt.

As he should be.

He is a loose cannon with clear mental health issues.

The man chats shit about Hitler being right etc.

Nope.

Anti-semitism has no place in the UK.

I can't believe Starmer and co are wasting time on this when the world is about to burn

MyGammyEye Its not Mumsnet saying ''it wasn't my fault, I was off my meds'', its him.

He’s not just visiting though is he? 🙄
Clearly you like him and are upset at this news, but the majority of people will be glad he’s quite rightly, not allowed to be a part of this festival.

One of the tracks on an album is called GAS CHAMBER. He has repurposed it and changed the title. It's calculating and cynical. This loathsome specimen has not changed his spots, he is merely paying lip service. I don't know what the Wirelss organisers / Festival Republic were thinking, that this would pass without a blip ?!
Good riddance.

people with severe mental health crisis do say things like this when they are not in control and it’s disingenuous to pretend this can’t be the case. I have just been in hospital and observed someone in psychosis who is deep into theories about the Jews the matrix the lizard people- he was going to have a delusion and internet provided. It is not what he thinks in real life at all.

however, as I said, it’s had to believe that KW has been in MH crisis all the times he’s said this stuff

What a surprise not!

If true, Wireless are entirely to blame here. Hopefully they will sack whoever books the artists.