Billionaire artist and humanitarian Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, recently came under fire for a remark he made during an interview with Alex Jones, during which he said, “[T]here is a collusion of Jewish attorneys and managers and everything else you can think of” who “give America porn.” One article in NME scoffed at Ye’s assertion, lumping it in as an “age-old anti-Semitic trope,” with the rest of his comments. Let us examine the validity of Ye’s claim that Jewish people have notable control over the porn industry by taking a look at Al Goldstein, a Jewish pornographer who is attributed with “normalizing hardcore pornography in the United States.”
When fellow pornographer Luke Ford (also Jewish) asked Goldstein why Jews were dramatically overrepresented in the porn industry, he answered, “The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don’t believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream, its subversive character becomes more charged.” Ford then asked, “What does it mean to you to be a Jew?” To which Goldstein responded, “It doesn’t mean anything. It means that I’m called a kike.” Ford also asked, “Do you believe in God?” Goldstein said, “I believe in me. I’m God. Screw God. God is your need to believe in some super being. I am the super being. I am your God, admit it. We’re random. We’re the flea on the butt of the dog.”