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I don’t understand why we give a symbol so much power over us

Kanye is not a nazi

He is interested in why it makes everyone so angry

Why is Kanye releasing music praising hitler and producing clothing with hate symbols?

His art is about reactionary culture. He’s saying “look at how angry these people get at a symbol they have no real world experience with, look at how easily they call a black American racist for pointing at it”

Look at how mad we are, people who have never met a real nazi

Where is the line where he crosses over into being a reckless provocateur?

There's a lot of trauma around this matter, and poking a finger in it and calling it art feels deeply insensitive

IMO, art is a tool for emotional catharsis. I think his recent "art" is net bad because it doesn't promote healing

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Kanye and Hitler are both reflections of the societies they emerged from, and one of my biggest criticisms here is that we vilify a man instead of understanding how he came to his points.

In Nazism, the empathy should not lead to loving Nazis, but truly hating the whole imperialist mindset of the 1900s that would justify rightfully taking someone else’s home (liebenstraube) and thinking an entire race of people is inferior / superior.

In Kanye’s case, the culture turned him into a villain long before the Nazi arc. People got mad at him at first for questioning the 14th ammendment which outlawed slavery but made prison labor legal, leading to the mass imprisonment of blacks in America.

His point was missed, it was just “Kanye hated abolition”.

And from there it was “ye is mentally ill, ye is an edgelord” and his right to influence the culture with his art is revoked.

Thats why he got into Nazism— he was pushed out by people who didn’t understand his message.

Rationalizing a man's insecurities as justification for poor behavior is bad logic

By that logic, you justify both Kanye and Hitler lol

There is no line for a man who feels like society hates him