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I wish he would be collectively ignored. He's not well, but he's also just got vile views that aren't worth sharing. (This isn't a critique of the person who posted this, by the way.)
Can we stop using the excuse he’s not well? I’ve got plenty of folks in my life with mental illness and they’re not like this
I’m genuinely not trying to argue. You can be both horribly bigoted and have mental illness. I myself have mental health issues (who doesn’t, really?) and indeed, I am also not spewing the toxic nonsense Kanye is. It hopefully goes without saying that pointing out his mental illness isn’t excusing the wildly inappropriate things he says and does.
I agree. The mental illness does not make him racist. The mental illness gives him no filter to hide the racism.
Of course, being super, super rich and thus barely facing any consequences does not help.
I mean, he isn’t well. It doesn’t excuse his actions, but it does explain them.
They're also not enormously wealthy new money, so they're going to have a different understanding of the system from someone who was enormously privileged, but still subject to some of the negative effects of capitalism.
To be clear, I am not defending that Nazi, I am just pointing out that peoples political ideology is largely determined by their relationship with the means of production.