Nicki slammed for Nazi symbolism by Anti-Defamation League
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The Anti-Defamation League is slamming Nicki Minaj’s new music video that features a cartoon dictator version of the female rap star ruling over a fictional regime, which many fans were quick to point out looks a whole lot like Nazi Germany.
“Nicki Minaj’s new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture’s exploitation of Nazi symbolism,” Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor, told FOX411 in a statement. “The irony should be lost on no one that this video debuted on the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the ‘night of broken glass’ pogrom that signaled the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.”
“This video it is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a trivialization of the history of that era,” Foxman added. “This imagery is deeply disturbing and offensive to Jews and all those who recall the sacrifices Americans and many others had to pay as a result of the Nazi juggernaut.”
She's in a tough spot with this. She needs to apologize, but apologizing would require her to take responsibility which would make her look bad. She can't be like, "I didn't do the video, we hired someone" because then that goes against her "I control my career" image. She can't try to explain that it's not Nazi symbolism because it clearly is.
Unfortunate that Nicki Minaj can only get people to pay attention to her through stunts and not the music.
The criticism is deserved. That Minaj video is as racist as Justin Bieber saying the n-word repeatedly.
