RE: How should we feel about a famous person going off the rails?
Question: Are we *required* to feel anything about it? And do we genuinely care? Or is all this qualification to the criticism of West coming from every quarter nothing more than virtue signaling? Can't pick on the guy too much, you know, because he has mental issues, and that just wouldn't be right. Which, if that were the cause, would be correct, I suppose. But this guy was an asshole back when he wasn't seen as having significant mental issues, back when he was 'on his meds' and supposedly behaving rationally.
So, how about this...how about we drop West as a subject of such keen interest and let him go about his ugly business? If the hate junkies don't get their needed fix from him, they'll get it from someone, somewhere. There are plenty of dealers and pushers out there of all kinds, West being just one of them. That he is a celebrity is of no consequence beyond his visibility to an audience beyond the hate junkies. And I think we all know that there are plenty of his ilk to be had at less conspicuous levels of society, and those should perhaps be of more concern to us.
Is West going to drive up the numbers of antisemites in the world with his hateful, unhinged rhetoric? I doubt it. The hate junkies don't care the name of their dealer, and they'll find one no matter what. We already know enough about this guy and his words and deeds without giving him and his 'story' more oxygen than they merit.
The question for me about the latest West 'incident' is not what he said, but where and to whom he said it: How the hell is it, all things of late considered, that Alex Jones and Info Wars are still on the air?
RE: How should we feel about a famous person going off the rails?
Question: Are we *required* to feel anything about it? And do we genuinely care? Or is all this qualification to the criticism of West coming from every quarter nothing more than virtue signaling? Can't pick on the guy too much, you know, because he has mental issues, and that just wouldn't be right. Which, if that were the cause, would be correct, I suppose. But this guy was an asshole back when he wasn't seen as having significant mental issues, back when he was 'on his meds' and supposedly behaving rationally.
So, how about this...how about we drop West as a subject of such keen interest and let him go about his ugly business? If the hate junkies don't get their needed fix from him, they'll get it from someone, somewhere. There are plenty of dealers and pushers out there of all kinds, West being just one of them. That he is a celebrity is of no consequence beyond his visibility to an audience beyond the hate junkies. And I think we all know that there are plenty of his ilk to be had at less conspicuous levels of society, and those should perhaps be of more concern to us.
Is West going to drive up the numbers of antisemites in the world with his hateful, unhinged rhetoric? I doubt it. The hate junkies don't care the name of their dealer, and they'll find one no matter what. We already know enough about this guy and his words and deeds without giving him and his 'story' more oxygen than they merit.
The question for me about the latest West 'incident' is not what he said, but where and to whom he said it: How the hell is it, all things of late considered, that Alex Jones and Info Wars are still on the air?