swastika, Kanye West and Shopify
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Kanye West's 4 days of controversy: a Super Bowl ad, a swastika T-shirt, and a Shopify shutdown
Kanye West’s online storefront shut down after peddling swastika shirts
Yeezy.com went dark this week after West attempted to sell racist merch, which Shopify flagged as a violation.
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Shopify shutters Kanye West’s Yeezy website: Selling swastika shirt ‘violated our terms’
I was drawn to the video, too. Seeing celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld and Mike Bloomberg channel my rage and give a middle finger to Kanye West after his most recent antisemitic spree, which included selling a swastika shirt the video riffed on,
The e-commerce platform found itself in an unenviable position thanks to Kanye West. Did it put things right? Kind of.
Ye claims that swastika "had many different meanings and many different names" and concludes that, despite admiration for Hitler, he's not a Nazi.
Kanye West’s swastika shirt is no longer for sale, after the e-commerce platform Shopify said earlier this week, amid an outcry, that he had violated its terms of service. But a wide array of shirts responding to the musician’s antisemitic merchandise are now available — and being offered to Jews who want to wear a riff on West’s design as an act of defiance.