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Chris Willman
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Getty Actor David Schwimmer took to social media Monday to thank several corporate sponsors who have pulled their support from the U.K.’s Wireless Festival, where Ye, formerly Kanye West, is set to headline for three nights in June. He is asking the remaining sponsors to do the same, insisting that the hip-hop superstar still has not offered a convincing apology for several years’ worth of antisemitic statements.
“It’s great to see companies with moral clarity,” Schwimmer wrote of Pepsi, PayPal and Diageo, three sponsors that have moved to sever ties with Wireless over Ye’s booking. (He did not specifically mention a fourth sponsor that also split from the festival Monday, Rockstar Energy Drinks.) “Unlike Wireless and Festival Republic, they decided not to platform an artist who became one of the most recognizable hate-mongering bigots in the world…”
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