• 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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        6 hours ago

        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.