Just a year after this happened and it seems like everybody has forgotten about it. Yea he lost his adidas partnership but nowadays, he's been a welcomed surprise guest at Travis shows, I'm hearing his songs being popped off on in clubs and parties, and he's been going viral on TikTok with tons of praise and no criticism or mention of him being a Nazi in the comments

Is it Americans having the memory of a goldfish? Americans not really hating Hitler/Nazis/anti-semitism that much? Kanye's music is just too good to ignore? Americans just loving to deepthroat and worship anybody that's famous?

  • BigHaas [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Rich person + mania = crazy fascist shit. Cancelling Kanye without also cancelling every rich person would be ableist.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        Kanye had a lot of antisemitic episodes before the AJ interview.

        In the song "Flashing Lights" he says he hates the paparazzi more than the nazis. Which many saw as comedic exaggeration for the sake of an easy rhyme way back when it came out, but in hindsight it's a big red flag about how he sees the media (including the celeb-stalking media) as Jewish-owned, and how he hates the (Jewish) media more than the killers of Jews.

        In his album Life of Pablo he praises homophobic and antisemitic NOI leader Louis Farrakhan on a couple of occasions.

        He also has this antisemitic lyric from the song Saint Pablo off of Life of Pablo:

        Brother Don Muhammad told the minister about the presentation

        He sat back and smiled

        Black on black lies is worse than black on black crime

        The Jews share their truth on how to make a dime

        These were all invisible to people for some reason. It took him going on Alex Jones and praising Hitler before people noticed.

      • BigHaas [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Of course a normal person praising Nazism should get punched in the throat, and having bipolar has nothing to do with political views.

        A rich person praising Nazism is to be expected. Accumulating wealth as a vassal of empire is inherently fascistic. The act of holding wealth is violent. Taylor Swift is a fascist too, she's just neurotypical enough to not discuss it in interviews. Anyone surprised to find out Kanye was a Nazi just hasn't been paying attention.

        So everyone in this thread trying to say Kanye is somehow different than other rich artists are focusing on vibes instead of reality, and discriminating against Kanye for being unable to control the impressions he gives off.

          • BigHaas [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Of course, but is this thread discriminating against all Nazis for being stupid and violent, or one Nazi for being bipolar?

        • BigHaas [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          It's not a bit. You should hate Kanye for starving children to death. Every wealthy person is a mass murderer. I don't care about some shit he said while he was manic, he's a baby murderer. Hate him for the real life acts of evil, not the mania posting.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Let me know when he comes down from his, I guess, year-long manic episode and apologizes with some comprehension of the gravity of doing Holocaust denial and being trotted around by that neonazi fuck.

            • BigHaas [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              I am, in no way, defending Kanye. The premise of the OP post is that we discovered something about Kanye we didn't previously know when he went all mask off, and the OP is wondering why that didn't result in him getting cancelled. I'm saying Kanye has been a mass murderer for multiple decades, so anyone conscientious was already not a Kanye fan, so the premise of the OP post was ridiculous. The only reason it was about Kanye and not "When will Swift get cancelled for failing to use her immense wealth to mitigate child hunger" is because Kanye has bipolar disorder.

              Kanye apologizing while holding onto his wealth would obviously be an entirely empty gesture. Until we illegal-to-say, round them all up, then illegal-to-say, y'all just have to accept 90% of pop culture is made by fascists.

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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            11 months ago

            So would you say you differentiate between someone who earned vast amounts of wealth through their labor vs someone who earned their wealth through the extraction of surplus of the labor of others

            • BigHaas [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              Why would I? Choosing to let children starve is murder. Simple as.

                • GinAndJuche
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                  11 months ago

                  If he doesn't respond please lmk where you were planning on taking that train of questioning. I'm curious.

                  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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                    11 months ago

                    If existing with enough money to afford appetizers or desert and entrées without worrying about the cost every time you eat out means you're a baby-killing murderer because you don't live like Diogenes. Basically the "you live in a society yet you criticize it" bit very-intelligent

                    • BigHaas [he/him]
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                      11 months ago

                      You don't need to give to charity to the point you're living in poverty, but if you can significantly improve someone else's life without meaningful impact to your own there is a duty to do so.

                      The ultra rich are in the unique position that they can order the creation of systems to directly mitigate the worst excesses of capitalism. The failure to do so is what makes them mass murderers. The logic doesn't apply to the proletariat, and under socialism I would hope no individual has that power.

          • GaveUp [she/her]
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            11 months ago

            Every wealthy person is a mass murderer

            So every single popular musician, actor, artist, author, athlete, etc. is a mass murderer, right lol

            • Mokey [none/use name]
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              11 months ago

              If you have millions of dollars like T Swift and Kanye and you dont do good things with it youre a murderer, I agree with this. You dont get a capitalist pass just because you sing a song

            • BigHaas [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              Literally yes. You need to reach a level of wealth where you could build systems to address poverty. Not super common with artists, but Kanye and Beyonce and Taylor Swift etc have all reached it.