In a scathing Instagram post, Meghan McCain wrote she has “zero tolerance for this sh*t” after Kanye West’s anti-Semitic posts, lambasting not just the troubled rapper but also her fellow conservatives for promoting him.
A short recap, since this past week’s news cycle has been roughly 17 months long: after getting big ratings for his appearances on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show (including a segment in which he trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes to attack Jared Kushner), West got his Instagram account restricted and several posts deleted for more anti-Semitic content, and then wandered over to Twitter for the trifecta, posting a wild rant declaring he was “going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”
Twitter locked West out of his account and deleted the tweet. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Mediaite that the “account in question has been locked due to a violation of Twitter’s policies.”
Numerous Republicans and conservative commentators had cheered West’s remarks to Carlson, especially specific segments in which he claimed he was persecuted for supporting former President Donald Trump and talked about being pro-life. In one of the more notable examples, the House Judiciary GOP Twitter account tweeted on Thursday: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”
“A reminder,” wrote McCain, “antisemitic hate crimes are at their highest levels in America in decades.”
Anti-Semitism was “a cancer and it is everywhere…an existential threat to American life and our Jewish friends and family both in our country and outside of it,” McCain continued, lamenting how it was “now normal to hear casual antisemitic comments from from sitting members of congress, media hosts, pop culture figures etc.”
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