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He ain’t right. Seriously, There’s something wrong with him.
Yes.
People are constantly outraged by what he says, but the guy is actually sick and needs help.
Instead, yes men and the media just fuel his mental breakdowns.
Unless you're going to support involuntary commitment it's fair game to ridicule him. He will never seek help and until he does I will view him as the terrible person that he is. If he does seek help my opinion will change.
Also, his young fans model their behavior on him. Public ridicule is probably the only option to hold that back.
He didn't deny that when asked; he has mental issues and stopped taking his medication according to his Letterman interview.
Right, but at a certain point not taking your medication and acting like an idiot aren’t just ‘oops, I did a goof’ things. Especially after a decade of this sort of behavior.
Your mental illness isn’t your fault. But it is your responsibility.
Exactly if I refuse Adderall and drive I put myself and others in danger. If it’s denied to me and I’m actively coerced by society to drive it’s different but if every choice is mine so are the easily expected consequences.
Yes, I suffer from the exact same condition as Kanye, and while that may at times explain my erratic behavior, it never excuses it, not does it absolve me of the responsibility of dealing with the consequences of my words or actions. The way people treat Kanye's mental illness is insulting and infantiling, especially when Kanye himself seems to take no steps to reconcile it with his responsibility for his own actions.
Fuck Kanye and fuck anyone who tries to excuse his bullshit because "he's not well."
He has a mental illness, but mental illness doesn't make you a racist.
Always has been. Honestly not sure why it took people so long to see it.
Does anyone know where I can find a full video of his Alex Jones interview where he’s completely out of his mind? Everything on YouTube is a commentary of it and I’m not giving Infowars a penny by visiting their site.
Edit: https://archive.org/details/ye-and-alex-jones-break-the-internet-in-must-see-new-interview_20221202
The best part was that Alex Jones and whoever that other chud was were actually trying to be voices of reason lol.
You know you're bad when someone like Alex Jones has to be the voice of reason.
Watching Alex Jones keep trying to throw him lifelines and him swat them away as the white supremacist sat on the side nodding and grinning was beyond amusing.
Does Ye actually believe that Hitler wouldn't have sent him to a concentration camp?
Mental illness is a hell of a drug.
And, ironically, it's a second reason why Hitler would have had him killed. People with mental illnesses ended up in death camps alongside Jews, political prisoners, and people deemed "members of a lesser race."
Why isn't he charged with hate crime. If I said the same I'd be prosecuted
No you wouldn't, at least in America. For better or worse, free speech is pretty strongly protected.
You wouldn't be. The First Amendment would protect you against criminal charges for just expressing hatred towards a group.
Now, if you took action to harm a group and your speech was part of that attempt, then you could be prosecuted for a hate crime.
Now, this might seem like a bad thing. Why shouldn't we make "saying hateful things" a crime? The problem (well among the many problems) is "who decides what's a hateful statement?"
Most people would agree praising Hitler (for anything other than being the guy who killed Hitler) is hateful. What about praising Thomas Jefferson? He was a founding father and did laudable things in his life. On the other hand, he owned slaves and raped at least one of them. So would praising Thomas Jefferson be a hate crime?
Also, what if the Republicans came into power again and gained the ability to decide what is criminal hate speech? Imagine if hating black people, LGBTQ people, Jews, Muslims, etc was allowed, but even mildly criticizing white Christians was criminal hate speech.
Yes you would.
The US' first Amendment doesn't protect you from german Law. And this happened in Germany.
Ah, you're right. I missed that significant detail. If Kayne had done this in the US, he would have been covered by the First Amendment (though Adidas would have been within their rights to cut off their deal because they didn't want to work with someone like him). By doing this in Germany? The First Amendment doesn't apply then.
Kanye West looks like a black Garth Brooks.
He should check for brain cancer.
He has bipolar and he's rich. Either one of those factors could cause someone to say and do shit like this
Being bipolar or rich doesn't make you a neo nazi.
No, but some mental issues could lead to paranoid and conspiratorial thinking.
Doesn't excuse it of course.
No but they do not help.
I would say that they CAN make someone more vulnerable to it especially when they’re untreated
It quite literally can.
Symptoms from the NHS website:
- being delusional, having hallucinations and disturbed or illogical thinking
- doing things that often have disastrous consequences
- making decisions or saying things that are out of character and that others see as being risky or harmful
Those are things that can lead someone to act like he does.
What? From the guy who said "I like Hitler?" I am shocked. Shocked, I say!
Yeah, I guess that sounds like something he'd say.