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30 Nov 2022
Tim Pool failed to provide meaningful pushback against Kanye West's anti-Semitic remarks and instead attempted to sanitize them.

The second thing is that if you just watch the minute prior to the storming out, it kind of does appear like Tim is giving some pushback to Ye, but I don't think that's necessarily a fair way to characterize the rest of the interview. If anything, Ye entered this interview having just said a bunch of comically anti-Semitic stuff, proceeded to say anti-Semitic nonsense, and Tim did his best to sanitize it so the audience could see it as something other than anti-Semitism. It was a localization issue or an instance of identitarianism, but it wasn't the thing that it obviously was. This wasn't an episode of Tim giving pushback to Ye's ideas and Ye not being able to handle it. It was a case of Tim failing in an effort to whitewash the things Ye was saying.