The View Says Kanye West ‘Psychological Well being Points’ Aren’t a ‘Move’ for Antisemitic Habits: ‘It is a Cop Out’

One of many Scorching Subjects on Friday’s present was West getting dropped by his expertise company after a Tremendous Bowl business selling his Yeezy web site … which was promoting nothing however swastika t-shirts. The advert got here after disturbing posts to X through which he mentioned he was a Nazi and professed his love for Adolf Hitler.

Kicking off the dialogue, moderator Pleasure Behar identified that he is been making “vile” feedback like this for years, earlier than questioning why there hasn’t been extra outrage over him previously.

“There needs to be and I am glad we’re speaking about it on this present as a result of I really feel like, for some motive, Kanye’s been given a go,” mentioned conservative panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin.

“I do know there is a notion that he might have some psychological well being points, however there are tens of thousands and thousands of individuals round this nation who’ve psychological well being points, who aren’t saying bigoted, racist, antisemitic issues,” she continued. “I believe it is a cop-out.”

“I believe he must be referred to as out, particularly on the heels of the worst assault on Jews because the Holocaust on October 7 … There is a rise globally in antisemitism,” mentioned Griffin, who then identified how West has “extra social media followers than there are Jews on this planet.”

That, she mentioned, was notably harmful as a result of it does “he does have affect, there are individuals who want to him — particularly younger folks. He shouldn’t be normalized, he must be referred to as out.”

Sara Haines, in the meantime, mentioned she does not perceive “how he is allowed to stroll purple carpets,” calling out his current look on the Grammy Awards alongside a basically-naked Bianca Censori.

“You retain seeing him pop up and it is not loopy fringe issues, it is actually on the Grammys,” she continued, earlier than accusing him of doing nothing however sowing division.

“That is what I do not perceive. There’s one thing actually fallacious occurring right here with Kanye West,” mentioned Sunny Hostin, who added that “the African American group and the Jewish group have at all times been tied as a result of each communities have been so oppressed.”

“Oppressed folks should struggle collectively,” she continued. “So the truth that a Black man could be so brazenly vile and antisemitic, it is simply so jarring to me.”

Like Griffin, she additionally did not need to “blame it on psychological well being points,” agreeing together with her cohost’s reasoning. “As you talked about, there are many folks with psychological sickness who aren’t saying bigoted issues,” Sunny concluded.

The dialog ended with Ana Navarro saying West clearly “does not need to be helped” and solely “desires to proceed being who he’s” — prompting Haines so as to add, “And we have to proceed to name it out as a result of it is fully hate crammed awfulness and I do not care who you’re, you aren’t getting away with it.”

Former fellow cohost Meghan McCain additionally slammed West on X, calling him a “repugnant, vile piece of rubbish.” Whereas she deleted the submit, a rep confirmed to EW that it “was an accident” and he or she nonetheless thinks “he is a vile pig.”

West lately opened up about his psychological well being in an interview with The Obtain podcast, through which he mentioned he was misdiagnosed as bipolar, when he really has a type of autism. He then defined how that may have an effect on his habits and why it generally looks as if he digs in on controversial stances or pivots in new instructions spontaneously.