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He later advised a Jewish Adidas manager to kiss a picture of Hitler every day, and he told a member of the company’s executive board that he had paid a seven-figure settlement to one of his own senior employees who accused him of repeatedly praising the architect of the Holocaust.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/business/kanye-west-adidas-yeezy.html

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 17:02 (six months ago) link

The Adidas team was huddled with Kanye West, pitching ideas for the first shoe they would create together. It was 2013, and the rapper and the sportswear brand had just agreed to become partners. The Adidas employees, thrilled to get started, had arrayed sneakers and fabric swatches on a long table near a mood board pinned with images.

But nothing they showed that day at the company’s German headquarters captured the vision Mr. West had shared. To convey how offensive he considered the designs, he grabbed a sketch of a shoe and took a marker to the toe, according to two participants. Then he drew a swastika.

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 17:02 (six months ago) link

This fucking guy

The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 27 October 2023 19:45 (six months ago) link

I had to read this a couple times before it sunk in to me that he was using the swastika in a disapproving manner.

deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 27 October 2023 20:17 (six months ago) link


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