He believes his kids friends are "professional actors" who were placed there to "sexualize" them, that The Gap knew about the Uvalde shooting before it happened, and that Pete Davidson slept with his wife through the mechinations of an international Jewish conspiracy. You're doing the same thing Fox did: quoting the least unhinged things and pretending the most unhinged things didn't get said.
And, as I'm sure will have to be repeated dozens more times on this doomed thread: the mental illness thing isn't hypothetical. He was hospitalized for it, diagnosed, and is open about it. He attributes his success to it!
Thing is, I need to see the primary source before I can make a judgement. I tried to find the source for the first claim and it seems to be a quote from this Vice article:
>Carlson’s program also didn’t air a strange claim from Ye that “fake children” had been placed in his house to manipulate his children. “I mean, like actors, professional actors, placed into my house to sexualize my kids,” he told Carlson. He referred to the “so-called son” of an associate, seemingly to imply the child was fake.
> He believes his kids friends are "professional actors" who were placed there to "sexualize" them
Considering the way the entertainment industry in America uses kids, this is one of the least insane things Kanye has said. Anybody with sense would try to keep their kids away from the entertainment industry, who groom children to be products without regard for their welfare. How many former child actors need to go crazy before you notice the pattern?
Millions of people believe the Covid vaccine was designed to kill them, or that the Clintons eat fetuses in pizzerias. Millions more are absolutely certain a Jewish secret cabal runs the world. Are they "insane", or just dumb?
Kanye West is pushing conspiracies a little further, into the domestic realm.
What's upsetting is that when ordinary John Does promote conspiracy theories they are shunned, but when it's a successful artist we try to find them excuses.
He's not unwell because he's antisemitic. Maybe he's antisemitic all the time, but it seems probable that he's antisemitic because he's unwell. He doesn't seem unwell because he's antisemitic. He seems unwell because he believes that his children's friends are fake child actors installed by a conspiracy to sexualize them, and that a (possibly related?) Jewish conspiracy caused Pete Davidson to sleep with his ex-wife. Most people do not believe anything like those two statements.
This is what happens in these discussions: people take the genuinely batshit things he's saying and then generalize them to a point where they're merely stupid, and not batshit. Then they say "well, that might be wrong, but it's not crazy!". Well, you're right: it's not crazy. It's also not what he said.
You have posted this generic answer several times. Ok. Maybe he's "unwell". My point though is that there is very little difference between believing that your children are child actors and believing that politicians eat fetuses in a pizzeria on a regular basis. Both things are completely out there and rely on zero evidence.
Also, believing members of your family are impersonators or aliens is something young siblings try to persuade one another all the time. It's not unheard of.
Anyway, my larger point is that we should not tolerate antisemitism because of "crazy". Just because one adds outrageous beliefs on top of hate doesn't excuse the hate.
>but when it's a successful artist we try to find them excuses.
This is, to me, what is missing from this entire thing. Kanye is bipolar, yes, but I don't think anything he's points to some kind of manic outburst. What he said over the past few weeks have be fairly mainstream (or sub-mainstream) conservative talking points. Maybe not the ones that get blasted on Fox News, but the ones that shared and like with Fox News posts on Facebook.
To me the "Kanye is mentally ill" is a cover to hide some very pervasive talking points in conservative circles. It's an extension of the mass misinformation problems that we as a society have been dealing with since COVID and Kanye is the latest victim.
I think if you follow along with Kanye, it is obvious it is beyond normal celebrity "insanity". I feel bad for him because I really grew up listening to his music and still have a soft spot in my heart for him, but he has some incredible delusions it would seem in the last 5-10 years.
It's a fact that the guy is very publicly suffering from mental illness. Let's please not insinuate that he's being smeared for "disagreeing with the status quo" or not conforming to mainstream ideas, or some other common right wing victimhood nonsense.
When you say crazy things, it is correct to call them crazy.
