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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Wiley - rapper, producer and godfather of grime - has been dropped by his management following an antisemitic Twitter tirade. In the wider conversation that followed, were Black British Jews left out?
Guests:
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, journalist and podcaster.
Will Hodgkinson, chief rock and pop critic for The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: Sky News interview with Wiley, 5 News, i24 News and Smithsonian channel.
Song credits: Asylum, Warner, INCredible, Sony.
Additional music: Nctrnm (licensed under Creative Commons).
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0:00.0 | These days it's not unusual to see a celebrity having a social media meltdown, but when the |
0:09.6 | rapper, producer and Godfather of Grime, Wiley, took to Twitter with a furious tirade of |
0:17.1 | inflammatory, conspiracy-fueled anti-Semitism. |
0:21.7 | The world was genuinely shocked. |
0:24.7 | In a world where anti-Semitism is on the rise, it's exacerbating these issues and I genuinely do think social media, |
0:33.6 | particularly platforms like YouTube, |
0:35.2 | which are full of conspiracy theorists. |
0:37.4 | It makes it so much easier for these people |
0:39.5 | to be radicalised in this way. |
0:41.2 | As people boycotted Twitter and a roll call of politicians waded in, |
0:45.6 | many were left wondering why would anyone who was against racism be anti-Semitic. |
0:55.0 | It does kind of the music for me. |
1:00.0 | So it's a sad adjunct to what was previously a very inspiring career. |
1:06.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
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