the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he is going to purchase parlor. do you know what por lor is? the word might invoke the image of a fancy room or cute little lady sit and sip their tea from good china. but parlor is decidedly not that. parlor is a far right fringe social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capitol insurrection, january 6, 2021, because many of the violent rioters organized on parlor. podcast host kara swisher that very day asked one of the founders of parlor if he felt any responsibility for death and destruction to which he said this. i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform, considering we re a neutral town square that just add head heres to the law. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset and they felt disenfranchised. not long after that interview, apple and
his accounts in response to his blatant anti-semitism, including a tweet where he vowed to go, kwoet, def con 3 on jewish people, at a time when anti-semitic violence in the united states is at an all-time high according to the antidefamation league. so, when parlor celebrates the free speech, let s be clear, kanye wasn t blocked from twitter and instagram because he challenged critical race theory or vaccine mandates. it was because he threatened to kill jews. kanye was also recently seen wearing a white lives matter shirt, a line that some on the right began using in response to the black lives matter movement. it may or may not surprise you to learn that candace owens husband, george farmer, just happens to be the ceo of parlor s parent company. kanye becomes the latest billionaire to buy his way into
hollywood without new antics from kanye west. ye zi himself kicked off the year with a new album and the latest collection in his fashion line before reuniting his feud with taylor swift. they had a spat of he said, she said over lyrics about their album and he cut his series short after a set of confusing outbursts. the cancellations were immediately followed by a week-long hospitalization for exhaustion. just when we that you kanye had had a busy enough 2016, the rapper met with president-elect donald trump to discuss all of those issues on his mind. kanye wasn t the only family member making headlines. kim kardashian s harrowing robbery in paris got everyone talking. the reality star was held at gunpoint and robbed by men dressed as police officers in a private apartment. a spokesperson for kardashian west said she was badly shaken