This feels to me more of a case of multiple truths.
•He is unwell and mania/insanity can be plead in place of guilt in court for a reason.
•His influence has proven to be harmful especially related to antisemitism. The sheer number of shirts thought to have been sold is unacceptable and it feels so unapologetic.
•The actual reaction of Shopify and the Internet at large feels both isolating and well as helpless, watching the website stay live for multiple days knowing how much autonomy it feels like we as users are losing on other corners of the internet.
•Many people who are “anti-Zionist” are sharing this outrage and using it as proof they aren’t antisemitic enabling a system of support via infographic that is both hollow and performative.
-These same people will also say nothing (as they haven’t so far) as real and violently dangerous antisemitism rises worldwide.
•The Jews are tired of defending themselves. Seeing the entire Kanye shirt and commercial situation and the barrage of tweets from last week and knowing that if anyone says anything it will be met with “well what about the genocide…” “free Palestine” “🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸” when actually no one including Kanye’s tweets themselves said one world about Israel at all.
•Lastly, this will change nothing. No one is parading, protesting, not listening to his music, an in a month this will go away just as it did in 2022. This is why as a Jew, watching the world not respond to the normalization of blatant antisemitism and early 1938 Germany behaviors, I don’t think I’ll ever feel fully safe in this country again.
there’s something so good about a jewish kid from a jewish neighborhood north of chicago with a disability (superpower) that is bipolar and it sucks (is awesome) that loves kan(ye) and can fully empathize with how he got this way. but is ultimately even more let down than what it would seem because it isn’t just a shitty guy or someone who went crazy but someone who always thought this way and just now can’t hide it. thats enough mr. west plz no more today
This feels to me more of a case of multiple truths.
•He is unwell and mania/insanity can be plead in place of guilt in court for a reason.
•His influence has proven to be harmful especially related to antisemitism. The sheer number of shirts thought to have been sold is unacceptable and it feels so unapologetic.
•The actual reaction of Shopify and the Internet at large feels both isolating and well as helpless, watching the website stay live for multiple days knowing how much autonomy it feels like we as users are losing on other corners of the internet.
•Many people who are “anti-Zionist” are sharing this outrage and using it as proof they aren’t antisemitic enabling a system of support via infographic that is both hollow and performative.
-These same people will also say nothing (as they haven’t so far) as real and violently dangerous antisemitism rises worldwide.
•The Jews are tired of defending themselves. Seeing the entire Kanye shirt and commercial situation and the barrage of tweets from last week and knowing that if anyone says anything it will be met with “well what about the genocide…” “free Palestine” “🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸” when actually no one including Kanye’s tweets themselves said one world about Israel at all.
•Lastly, this will change nothing. No one is parading, protesting, not listening to his music, an in a month this will go away just as it did in 2022. This is why as a Jew, watching the world not respond to the normalization of blatant antisemitism and early 1938 Germany behaviors, I don’t think I’ll ever feel fully safe in this country again.
dear david,
this is a very thoughtful piece.
i like this: "I don’t think most of the righteous understand what they’re dunking on."
thank you for sharing!
love
myq
there’s something so good about a jewish kid from a jewish neighborhood north of chicago with a disability (superpower) that is bipolar and it sucks (is awesome) that loves kan(ye) and can fully empathize with how he got this way. but is ultimately even more let down than what it would seem because it isn’t just a shitty guy or someone who went crazy but someone who always thought this way and just now can’t hide it. thats enough mr. west plz no more today
using mental illness as an excuse for greed and hatred isn’t new.
kanye west is a scum sucking sack of hateful shit. watching you defend that was frankly disgusting.
Great piece.
If Kanye has a mental illness then I guess so does Hamas, the Houthis, Iranian regime... There is such a thing as JDS (Jew Derangement Syndrome).