David Schwimmer Urges Elon Musk Not To Give Kanye West’s Antisemitism “A Megaphone” With X: “Silence Is Complicity”

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As Kanye West‘s antisemitic rant continues to light up X, David Schwimmer is calling on Elon Musk to take action. The 3x Emmy nominee called out the social media mogul for “giving [West] a megaphone” with the social media platform, where the 24x Grammy winner previously caused outrage with a series of posts praising Hitler and claiming to be a Nazi. “This is so 2022,” wrote Schwimmer on Instagram. “We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr.

Musk. Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That’s twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence.

His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews. “I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that he identifies as a Nazi (which implies he wants to exterminate ALL marginalized communities including his own) or the fact that there is not sufficient OUTRAGE to remove and ban him from all social media at this point.

Silence is complicity,” he added. Schwimmer’s post comes after the Yeezy mogul posted on X that he’s “never apologizing for my Jewish comments,” adding in a disturbing series of posts, “I’m a Nazi.