Kanye West will remember December 1st as the day he came out as a Nazi sympathizer on InfoWars with Alex Jones, accused Chris Paul of infidelity, and began beef with Elon Musk.
Elon Musk gleefully tweeted on October 8th, following his takeover of Twitter, "Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!" The message was a response to Kanye West, who had previously been kicked off the platform for his infamous "Def Con 3 on Jews" tweet. He was fired again less than two months later by the social network's new CEO.
What caused it to happen? Elon Musk has always been open about his friendship with Kanye West, claiming that he took his previous mistakes "to heart" before being reinstated. Furthermore, the Tesla CEO stated that only those who violate the law would be barred from using the platform.
FAFO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
The explanation is divided into several parts, which can all be summed up by an acronym Musk tweeted after everything happened: FAFO (which stands for "fu*k around and find out").
Kanye just posted MOREq screenshots of his text convo with Elon on Truth Social (lmao), including a screenshot from Twitter saying he's banned from tweeting for the next 12 hours pic.twitter.com/2VaZhl6yAH
— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) December 2, 2022
Kanye West's most volatile day yet, in which he admitted to being a Nazi sympathizer and "liking" Hitler in an InfoWars interview, he began tweeting erratically.
Kanye shared a logo of a swastika inside a star of David
What followed were two tweets that sent Elon Musk over the edge. The first, a logo of a Jewish star of David embedded with a swastika.
Horrifying - a swastika embedded within a Jewish star.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) December 2, 2022
Does Kanye West have to physically hurt a Jewish person before you act @elonmusk? pic.twitter.com/VUs1MdhK4o
Musk attempted to resolve the issue privately.
The image prompted Musk to privately reach out to Kanye and say, "Sorry but this is not love, you have gone too far." As evidenced by text messages obtained by the Chi-town producer.
Kanye and Elon, a play in four tweets pic.twitter.com/3bgieVNxFf
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) December 2, 2022
"Who made you the judge?" West retorted defiantly. Elon Musk responded with The Lord's Prayer: "Our Father in Heaven..."
