I’m writing right now because I don’t know what else to do with my thoughts. I feel absolutely sick. We’ve all watched the trainwreck that is Kanye “Ye” West. Thoughts have been had. Thinkpieces have been written. We (with souls) held on nervously last week as former President Donald Trump dined with Kanye, Groyper frog leader Nick Fuentes, and gay-come-straight-for-dollars Milo Yiannopoulos. Surely, that was near rock bottom? Not even close.
Today wasn’t either.
But here is some of what was said as Kanye West appeared on Alex Jones’ Infowars. (click on the tweets for the video clips)
"For the @ADL, I want to say there's a lot of good Nazis that were just fighting for their country...and for them alllll to get put in a box...every Nazi's bad?...There's a loooooot of things that I loooooove about Hitler, a lot of things." ~@kanyewest
"Everyone is still controlled by the Jewish media...@DaveChappelle works for the Jews anyway...if I say 'I love Hitler' and they 51/50 me and try to lobotomize me like we saw @harleypasternak do...or they put me in prison, it just proves what I'm saying." ~ @Kanyewest
"Hitler seems like a cool guy...and he didn't kill 6 million Jews. That's just, like, factually incorrect." @KanyeWest
"My accounts have been frozen by the Jewish banks...I don't like the word 'evil' next to Nazis...I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis." ~ @KanyeWest - Alex Jones freaks and cuts to break. He calls the interview lit lit lit lit lit.
"[The Nazis] did good things too. We're going to stop dissing the Nazis all the time." ~ @KanyeWest
Years ago now, there was Charlottesville and chants of “Jews shall not replace us.”
People said that was an anomaly. Trump’s reign wouldn’t be that bad. Trump’s long history of anti-semitism was ignored. The reign of frogs and the alt-right and tempered racism was freed.
But, anti-semitic attacks increased. Those in synagogues are terrified.
A couple of years ago, when I was reporting from a Trump rally with my former business partner, who is Jewish, he was called a “Demonic Jew” during an interview.
I yelled (loudly) and raised my middle finger at the anti-semites there that day. The cameraman we hired thought it appropriate to condemn me the next day for being “unprofessional.”
I’ll continue to do it; thanks anyway, guy who I hired.
How much longer will this country allow this to go on?
It truly is a slippery slope, and we have to put boundaries up. Or else.
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That crazy lady who owned the cincinnati reds back in the Seventies made a similar statement. Until then, the media found her many wacky statements cute, until the time that she called Hitler a great guy! she wasn't heard about much after that!
Jenn, keep up the great work! Take the Kanye piece and the Aretha story, put them side-by-side and you have a big picture. People will cry for West to be censored, but that is the . L A S T . thing we should do. Gagging is a way of saying, not that we fear these voices, but that we fear those who will follow them. Nothing more empowering can be done for Zuckerbook, Bezos, Microsoft and Google/Alphabet than to profile ourselves as people who will cry for silecing others. The Left doesn't need to hand Surveillance Capitalism remarks that allow them to paint us as "Stalin 2.0" totalitarians. The Left's policies, MediCare for all, Green Reindustrialization, free college and above all, lowering atmospheric CO2 are hugely popular with everyone in the U. S. West stands on a corner of the stage, hollerin' and inviting us to form a lynch mob and go after him. His handlers smile. They know the noose will be around our neck.