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Clothes Resale Giant The RealReal Bans Kanye West's Yeezys

• https://www.vice.com, By Jason Koebler

Several hours after Adidas announced it was ending its multibillion-dollar Yeezy partnership with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, The RealReal, one of the largest clothing resale markets in the world, said that it would ban sellers from listing Yeezys. 

In recent days, brands across the spectrum have been cutting ties with Ye over his repeated antisemitic comments: Among others, BalenciagaGap, and now Adidas dropped him, while CAA, his talent agency, also broke with him and Vogue said it would no longer work with him. 

Earlier this month, Ye's activity was restricted on Twitter and Instagram after he posted antisemitic content, including a threat to go "death con 3" on Jewish people. Motherboard obtained and published portions of Ye's interview with Tucker Carlson that were not aired on Carlson's Fox News program, in which he made repeated antisemitic statements and suggested that the Louis Vuitton brand had killed his friend, the designer Virgil Abloh. After that, he went on the Drink Champs podcast and made still more antisemitic remarks, as well as claiming falsely that George Floyd died of a drug overdose, something over which Floyd's family announced it would file a $250 million lawsuit.

Adidas' Yeezys are some of the most influential and lucrative sneakers on the market; new Yeezys sold for anywhere from $200 to more than $500, and resale prices are typically even higher. 

"Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech," the company said in a statement Tuesday. "Ye's recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company's values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness."

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