Stupid Groid Rapper Wiley Gets Canceled for Offending Jews

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Stupid Groid Rapper Wiley Gets Canceled for Offending Jews

July 27th, 2020

Awake Goy

Rapper Wiley has been dropped by his management following anti-Semitic posts on his social media accounts.

Wiley’s Twitter account has been temporarily locked while Instagram said it had deleted some of his content, after a long series of posts on both platforms on Friday and Saturday.

The social media giants are facing growing pressure to close his accounts.

Police said they were looking at “relevant material” as critics accused Wiley of incitement to racial hatred.

Metropolitan Police officers in Tower Hamlets said in a statement: “We have received a number of reports relating to alleged anti-Semitic tweets posted on social media. The Met takes all reports of anti-Semitism extremely seriously. The relevant material is being assessed.”

There are also calls for Wiley’s MBE, appointed for services to music, to be forfeited.

Wiley, 41, known as the “godfather of grime”, shared conspiracy theories and insulted Jewish people on his Instagram and Twitter accounts, which together have more than 940,000 followers.

In one tweet he said: “I don’t care about Hitler, I care about black people”, and also compared the Jewish community to the Ku Klux Klan.

On Instagram, videos of himself were interspersed with posts of screenshots – which have since been deleted – including one at about midday on Saturday suggesting Twitter has suspended him from tweeting for a week.

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Broadcaster and producer DJ Spoony criticised Wiley’s “inflammatory” comments, tweeting that the artist “still has a huge role in our community but he must first see the error of his ways/comments and then make himself open to the help that will be offered”.

The Ivors Academy, an association for music writers which gave Wiley its Inspiration Award in 2019, said “such appalling views have no place in the music creator community”.

There has been growing outrage over the social media companies’ responses.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism said it had reported Wiley to the Metropolitan Police and asked Twitter and Facebook, which owns Instagram, to close his accounts to “prevent further outpouring of anti-Jewish venom”.

“We consider that Wiley has committed the offence of incitement to racial hatred, which can carry a substantial prison sentence,” a statement read.

It added that it would contact the Cabinet Office to ask for his MBE be forfeited.