I actually thought it was just a meme
adidas took him back which really flies in the face of all the 4chan nazis who were claiming his career was “destroyed” because he “dared to ask the jewish question.”
Yeah it shits on that cope, but taking him back is really normalization of anti-semitism and Holocaust denial.
Mel Gibson said much less horrible shit in a drunken stupor and got ostracized from Hollywood for decades. Sober Kanye says he “Looooooooves Nazis” and he’s in the time out box for less than a year?
Yeah it shits on that cope, but taking him back is really normalization of anti-semitism and Holocaust denial.
wouldn’t have suggested otherwise.
Mel Gibson said much less horrible shit in a drunken stupor and got ostracized from Hollywood for decades
Mel Gibson’s drunk rant in 2006 was far from his first antisemitic incident. it was just his most publicized one. Just look at Passion of the Christ. Also his drunk rant didn’t “destroy his career for decades” like nazis with victim complexes would have you believe. He was directing, acting, and producing films all through the rest of the 00s as well as the 10s. The incident barely touched him. Go look at his IMDB credits.
Okay maybe ostracized from Hollywood is a bit of an exaggeration but if I’m reading those IMDB credits correctly he went from being a fairly large and bankable leading man to not doing anything for 5 years, then only doing bit parts and behind the scenes stuff. Still a pretty big hit to his career.
And yes, the drunk shit wasn’t the first time he’s been antisemetic but the Alex Jones interview wasn’t Kanyes first time either.
Because apparenly Kanye has bipolar disorder. Like perhaps other people could correct me but I’ve never heard of other cases of bipolar causing you turn into super Nazi and that hes rich AF and actually can afford treatment so uhh.
Bipolar I won’t make you into a Nazi but the manic episodes are much more extreme than the hypo-manic episodes people with Bipolar II tend to get, and for some reason that often gets lost in the discourse. It doesn’t excuse him at all, but I do want to make it clear that these sort of delusions - as in grand conspiracies, not Nazi shit - are common during manic episodes.
I think in this case the simplest explanation is the correct one: Kanye stopped taking his meds and spent too much time on 4chan. Since most celebrities are emotionally stunted adults, it’s no surprise that many of them fall into the same cultural demographic as teenage boys.
I mean, I’ve heard descriptions of Bipolar episodes leading to psychosis, and I dont see why nazi conspiracy shit would be less believable for someone to start believing under psychosis than shit like aliens or space nazis beaming into their brain and draining their precious fluids.
But thats all for a medical professional to deal with, any speculation that goes beyond “its a possibility that needs to be investigated” is kind of a soft apologism. It could equally be the case that he believes nazi shit the regular way too and whatever mental health problems he has going on just removed the self-awareness and control that is necessary to not just yell “I LOVE HITLER” out loud on a broadcast interview.
