Kanye West’s Honorary Degree Rescinded By Chicago Art Institute

    Kanye West‘s anti-Semitic remarks have landed him in hot water once again, this time losing him his honorary degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

    According to ABC7, the institute officially announced its disaffiliation from Ye and rescinded the honorary degree he was honored with in 2015.

    “The School of the Art Institute of Chicago condemns and repudiates Kanye West’s (now known as Ye) anti-Black, antisemitic, racist, and dangerous statements, particularly those directed at Black and Jewish communities. Ye’s actions do not align with SAIC’s mission and values, and we’ve rescinded his honorary degree,” SAIC said in a statement.

    The move comes in response to a petition created by a group of students calling on SAIC President Elissa Tenny to rescind Kanye’s honorary degree. The petition reportedly had over 4,000 signatures as of earlier this week.

    “[An honorary degree] bestows the legitimacy and luster of the School on a figure who has in recent months made repeated public statements expressing and justifying anti-Semitism,” the online petition argued.

    “Regardless of his contributions prior to receipt of this award, it is harmful to allow Ye, as he is presently known, to continue to use the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to help legitimize hatred and violence.”

    Kanye West never received his bachelor’s degree as he dropped out of college around age 20 to pursue a music career after brief stints attending the American Academy of Art and Chicago State University.

    Yeezy returned to the music scene in the midst of the chaos on Wednesday (December 7) to release a song tentatively titled “Someday We’ll All Be Free,” which heavily samples the Donny Hathaway hit of the same name.

    The soulful track references his infamous “Death Con 3” tweet and was removed from Instagram hours after he posted it.

    “Jackson if you’re nasty/ Tweeted Death Con now we passed three/ Tweeted Death Con now we passed three,” he raps on the track.

    13 thoughts on “Kanye West’s Honorary Degree Rescinded By Chicago Art Institute

    1. All this stuff has made me think and feel is that Ye is completely right. He said similar things about white men for decades. Say it about the Js, and you’re in trouble!

      1. Ye cause anyone who receives consequences for their actions must be exposing some kind of secret. You sound stupid af lmfaooo
        In America, bad Jewish business is just what bad white business is. No need to differentiate, aside for controversy, which is what he likes. He’s a narcissist.
        Holocaust denying and endorsing hitler (who did not invent the microphone lmao) is not defensible.
        Ironically enough while Alexander Bell pioneered the first microphones, the guy responsible for what pretty much what all modern mics are based on goes by the name of James West, who’s still alive.

      2. He said mean words. That’s it. Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t canceled after his first conviction in the early 2000s, of raping underage girls. Well, it qas “procuring” underage girls. Imagine defending a system that doesn’t cancel people convicted of raping kids, but cancels people who say mean words that half the world actually agree with. Means words VS raping kids. Hmmmm. How many child rapists have been debanked? Not any I know of, unless they are child rapists who also challenged narratives of those in power. It’s funny how Hitler is so controversial, but it’s fine to like Mao or Stalin, when both were responsible for 20+ million civilian deaths, Mao being up to 65 million civilian deaths. Challenging mainstream narratives shouldn’t warrant being canceled by those in power.

      3. Dude has a good point. R Kelly wasn’t debanked. Kanye is. As they said, child rape? Meh. Saying offensive things without inciting violence or breaking any actual laws? CANCELLLLLLLEDDDDD

      4. I don’t think most holocaust deniers claim it didn’t happen at all, but they dispute the numbers and such. I mean, one particular PROVEN case was the katyn massacre. 10,000+ grave site of Polish discovered. Blamed on Germany, and Germans convicted of the crime in the Nuremberg trials. Guess what? Poland KNEW Russia did it. They sided with the winners of the war for their own gain, and blamed Germany. Guess what also? Russia ADMITTED it was Stalin who did it many decades later. Putin himself admits Germany was inncoent for that particular crime they were charged with. So the fact that large massacres blamed on Germany have been proven to be attacks from other countries kind of proves that only an idiot would trust mainstream historians claims, and a smart person would question things. I bet you think 911 wasn’t fishy at all, even though our own Gov planned to attack USA in the 60s to frame Cuba to justify an invasion. It’s called Operation Northwoods. Jfk stopped it and declassified the DOD documents. It was. Alitsral government plan to commit terroristic acts against American citizens, posing as Cubans, to attempt to justify a wrongful invasion. Wake up man. The world is evil.

      5. Are you suggesting that Germany shouldn’t have been punished for the holocaust just because Russia also contributed to it? Hitler and the Nazi party was unquestionably the main force behind it. I am definitely only for punishing people for crimes they committed and not piling shit on but this does not vindicate Hitler and the Nazis in any way, shape or form whatsoever.
        And no I actually think 9/11 was allowed to happen considering the fact that Bush signed the Patriot Act (name chosen just to adhere and pander to the bootlickers), solely to spy on American citizens and put a smackdown to any political movement that wasn’t the two-party system in the name of national security.
        So no, just because I’m not some ignorant,, jew bashing neckbeard doesn’t mean I believe everything the mainstream tells me lmfao. You do realize, where I come from, schools are trying to teach that slaves were in fact indentured servants and that the separation of church and state is in fact a bad thing.

    2. When di Ye ever say anything “anti-black” ? These honerary degrees are all bullshit. We like you 5 years ago so we award you a fake degree. Now we dont like you so we take it back. When I was a kid that was called indian giving. Now its applauded by liberals.

      1. Ye sad Black Lives Matter was a scam, Black people were enslaved because they chose to be and his White Lives Matter tee shirts was the top of the pyramid! Read and you will know this. Ye is a loose cannon

      2. Black loves matter WAS a scam. Where did the money go? The founders all bought lavish mansions. Who was helped from the hundreds of millions raised? I don’t see blm taking on court cases to help a disenfranchised black man or woman. The white lives matter is more to make a point than its overly controversial when it shouldn’t be. And Kanye talking about slavery, when read in context, qas clearly talking about how mental chains are what keep all of us down (FYI, all humans are oppressed by government today). As in, when people no longer have fears, they can conquer anything. Power of the people is real, but we are an intentionally, forcefully divided people, so we will all get screwed by the government.

      3. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Rapper Kanye West, in his first event since declaring himself a presidential candidate, ranted against historical figure Harriet Tubman on Sunday, saying the Underground Railroad conductor “never actually freed the slaves, she just had them work for other white people,” comments that drew shouts …Jul 20, 2020

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