‘The View’: Alyssa Farah Griffin Says Kanye West “Needs to Get the Help He Needs and Politely Shut Up” 

The View weighed in on the Kanye West discourse on this morning’s episode, collectively agreeing the fashion designer and musician should seek help as he continues to double down on his antisemitic remarks. While the panel all thought it was important to speak out against West’s comments, Alyssa Farah Griffin said it’s time for the Donda rapper to “politely shut up.”

“The scary thing is, antisemitism isn’t just on the rise in the U.S., but globally,” she told her co-hosts, before detailing her 2018 visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

“Stepping on those grounds, you are struck by what happened,” she said. “The horrors of what hatred can breed, the lives that were lost, and what struck me the most is, this happened in my grandparents’ lifetime.”

Griffin continued, “Hate breeds hate, and it can bring even worse things than we’ve seen recently. We need to condemn racism, bigotry in any form,” before adding, “Kanye needs to get the help he needs and politely shut up.”

West has come under fire in recent weeks, with backlash against the rapper intensifying earlier this month after he wrote on Twitter that he was “going death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE,” on Oct. 8.

He added, “You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda,” per CNN.

His tweets have since been deleted and his account was locked by Twitter, but West’s message has resonated with hate groups, including demonstrators in Los Angeles who gathered above an overpass Sunday with banners reading “honk if you know” and “Kanye is right about the Jews,” per CNN.

West has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has been outspoken about his mental health in the past, but The View‘s Anna Navarro said on today’s episode that she thinks his struggles don’t excuse his behavior.

“I’m sick of Kanye West using the excuse, or people excusing him because of mental illness,” Navarro said. “A lot of people with legitimate mental illness … are not bigots and are not racist and are not anti-semites. Mental illness should not give you a shield [or] a pass for that kind of thing.”

Sunny Hostin then shared her take, telling the panel, “He really does need help,” before adding, “Does he have no one around him that can help him? Because we’re seeing this — not only antisemitism, we’re seeing racism from him, we’re seeing bias from him, he’s lost partnerships over this.”

“Has he no one that can reach out and reach him?” she asked.

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.