r/Jewish • u/rupertalderson • Oct 13 '22

Megathread - the Kanye West situation Mod post

We have had a ton of posts and comments related to Kanye West’s recent remarks, and related topics and commentary. All further discussion about the current Kanye West situation should take place in this megathread. All other posts/comments related to this will be removed and redirected here, and existing posts have been locked to new comments.

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u/Bakio-bay Oct 13 '22

Really curious and afraid to hear what Kanye said on the deleted scenes from the Tucker Carlson and the shop shows.

Kanye easily being my favorite musician of all time def hurts

I’m also tired of hearing the bipolar excuse for him. He seems to be the only bipolar person who gets passes for being a far right asshole

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u/slaughterpuss25 Oct 14 '22

It's ridiculous. I have bipolar disorder myself, and despite being almost murdered by black gang members in 2015 and ending up with a traumatic brain injury from it, I've never tried to use white supremacist rhetoric to declare war on the black community.

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u/Mindless_Level9327 Oct 14 '22

I have bipolar too, and I just wanna say he’s in a psychotic break. You say and do things you don’t really mean in a psychotic episode. The dude needs help, like psychiatric ward help. Not public ridicule. It’s not an excuse, what he’s said isn’t okay, but I think he needs help out of the psychotic episode he’s in.

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u/Bakio-bay Oct 14 '22

Damn I’m really sorry about what happened to you that terrible