An upcoming episode of the YouTube talk show The Shop: Uninterrupted has been scrapped after Kanye West allegedly used “hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes” in an interview.
The move came as it emerged the star had shared a series of comments based on racist conspiracy theories in a separate interview with Fox News.
Fox removed those segments before the broadcast, but the footage was leaked to technology website Motherboard.
The star, who is legally known as Ye, was previously suspended from Instagram and Twitter for making anti-Semitic comments.
Those posts came in response to a backlash against his show at Paris Fashion Week, where he wore a t-shirt carrying the slogan “White Lives Matter”.
The Anti-Defamation League has called the phrase “hate speech” and attributed it to white supremacists, who began using it in 2015 in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
He appeared on Fox News, where he told host Tucker Carlson the t-shirt was “funny” and “the obvious thing to do”.
In unaired clips from the same interview, which leaked on Tuesday, West detailed his belief in an unfounded anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Planned Parenthood was founded “to control the Jew population” in conjunction with the Ku Klux Klan.
“When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah… who the people know as the race Black really are,” he told host Tucker Carlson, referring to a claim, unsupported by historical evidence, that Black people are the “real” Jewish race, and that Jews are attempting to “steal” their birthright.
West also complained that his children were attending a school where Kwanzaa – an annual celebration of African-American culture – is taught, saying he would rather they learned about the Jewish holiday Hanukkah because “at least it will come with some financial engineering”, yet another anti-Semitic trope.
