• tal@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    His posts included dozens of comments about Jewish people and the Holocaust, including “I LOVE HITLER NOW WHAT B*****ES

    I don’t really follow Kanye West or celebrities in general, but my vague impression from past incidents that managed to reach my consciousness is that West will say and do pretty much anything that generates publicity for himself.

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    4 hours ago

    This motherfucker seriously needs his Nazi ass beat down. There needs to be a whole lot less tolerance for these fuckers.

  • Tasty Saganaki@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    I wish he would be collectively ignored. He’s not well, but he’s also just got vile views that aren’t worth sharing. (This isn’t a critique of the person who posted this, by the way.)

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      6 hours ago

      Can we stop using the excuse he’s not well? I’ve got plenty of folks in my life with mental illness and they’re not like this

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        5 hours ago

        I’m genuinely not trying to argue. You can be both horribly bigoted and have mental illness. I myself have mental health issues (who doesn’t, really?) and indeed, I am also not spewing the toxic nonsense Kanye is. It hopefully goes without saying that pointing out his mental illness isn’t excusing the wildly inappropriate things he says and does.

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        They’re also not enormously wealthy new money, so they’re going to have a different understanding of the system from someone who was enormously privileged, but still subject to some of the negative effects of capitalism.

        To be clear, I am not defending that Nazi, I am just pointing out that peoples political ideology is largely determined by their relationship with the means of production.

  • Laser@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    Why is anyone even listening to this bozo anymore? He is going to end up like that chapelle sketch. Black kkk member!

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    Too bad he wasn’t around during the 30s and 40s to trust in his friend Hitler. Hitler would have loved him, to death.