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My all-time favorite Kanye quote is probably, My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

adjl posted...

Or an observation. The presumption that it's an insult is in fact using it as an insult yourself.

Randomly accusing people of being mentally ill only has an insulting connotation.

Revelation34 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

As far as I know, Kanye hasn't made a public admission to being diagnosed with a mental illness so presuming that he has one to ridicule what he's saying in the video is pretty insulting... and I think you're being a little willfully dense if you don't think he was using it as an insult (especially knowing what his political leanings are).

Is it insulting if Kanye never hears about it?

The complaint was using mental illness as an insult. The subject of an insult doesn't need to hear an insult for it to be an insult. The nature remains unchanged.

GunslingerGunsl posted...

It was as much of a choice for black people as the holocaust was a choice for Jews.

Not really true, considering that the Holocaust occurred over a much shorter span of time, its victims were trapped in camps with heavily armed guards for most of it, and the country was a military state at the time. The lives of slaves were seen as having monetary value to individuals, whereas the lives of Jews were seen as having no value so there was a greater incentive to keep slaves alive compared to Jews who would often just be killed instead. Then the legal risks for helping escaped slaves were far lower than the risks with helping Jews escape, which is one reason they received more support when it came to helping them escape.

adjl posted...

That was not calling him mentally ill for the purpose of ridiculing him. That was saying that he's seems to be mentally ill, and that society's insistence on being amused by his ranting instead of sympathetic to his condition is insulting and disrespectful.

It's very clearly accusing him of being mentally ill specifically for the purposes of mocking him and diminishing the merits of what he has to say.

Monopoman posted...

It's hilarious watching Kanye back Trump when he was so anti-Bush back in the early 2000's this guy seems to be going from hard left to hard right over the years.

No gradual shifts for Kanye he is either a die hard Liberal or a die hard Republican.

I'm not sure that there's necessarily a left-right paradigm in play so much as it is just him having a better relationship with Trump. And, considering that both men share some common personality traits, it's not surprising that they'd get along.
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