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Kanye West and the mainstreaming of antisemitism

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Alex Jones - I Don't Like Them Putting Chemicals in the Water, They Turn the Frogs Gay

Alex Jones, who has absolutely petaled anti-Semitic tropes himself, actually seemed a bit uncomfortable with Kanye West's anti-Semitic comments. He once famously posited a conspiracy theory that they're putting chemicals in the water to turn frogs gay. So what he is doing in this interview is he's trying to launder the reputation of Kanye West by giving him an out Basically an opportunity to explain himself because Kanye had said a number of anti-Semitic things in the weeks running up to this.

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