I’ve been sitting on this for several days now. I thought my anger would cool over time, but remaining quiet only built up the pressure like an unattended boiler about to explode! I CANNOT remain silent any longer! I need to fucking rant and write it out, not just for for my own sanity, but for society at large!
I was in a cafe, and Kanye West music started to play overhead. I thought of what he said, that he LOVES Hitler! That slavery was a choice. That the Holocaust at one didn’t happen, AND that they deserved it anyway!
When I voiced my disdain for how people still excuse the inexcusable, my friend said, “well, you have to separate the MAN from his music.” The more I thought of what she said, the more ENRAGED I got with her dismissiveness.
“Why? WHY?! Why do I “have to” separate him from his music? Because you like it?? Because YOU aren’t a Jew?? You are enabling and patronizing a literal NAZI! What would it take? What could this disgusting, evil fucking PIG do get people to finally swear off empowering him any further?? For most, the answer is NOTHING, but for some the answer may be a kick in the pants, which I shall now provide!
What blows my mind is that many of his defenders are PEOPLE OF COLOR! Groups I’d assumed knew better through their own experiences! People who told me “silence is violence” when it was THEIR group on the line! But who will NOT be lectured by a white man as myself when THEY remain silent about a group that’s not THEM! No, NO, I will not “stay in my lane” just because I’m a cis, straight yt man, if you’re offended by that, you are welcome to DIE MAD about it! Because if YOU are a POC and give Nazis a pass, it will come to you sooner than you realize!
NEWSFLASH: You think only the JEWS were exterminated in the Holocaust?? Jews were just the largest slice of the pie! NOT even most of it! Most were all the others combined! Gypsies, the mentally and physically disabled, Poles, LGBTs, I can’t even list them all here!
Children and babies gassed and burned, you MONSTER!
Kanye says he LOVES it all! YOU are dismissing and deflecting for him WHY??? Because his MUSIC is fire??
Would you give him a pass if he WEREN’T a musician? If a restaurateur said he LOVED SLAVERY and LYNCHING NIG***RS from trees, “let’s drag ‘em behind a truck!”, would you say, “Well, you have to separate the man from his establishment; his menu’s dope!” Fuck you, PIG! There is no longer ANY scenario left in which playing Kanye’s music is acceptable! If YOU are reading this, and YOU STILL listen to that disgusting, EVIL man, YOU are the problem. YOU!
Why? Because Kanye himself IS NOT the issue! Hitler-lovers go back as far as Hitler; Nazis will ALWAYS exist, but this isn’t a problem ONLY as long as they remain in the furthest extreme. If you keep them in the mainstream, you are committing a DANGEROUS act! One that even the victims of the Holocaust didn’t see coming because it was too bad to be true (so they thought)! It was far from the only genocide in history. AND it will NOT be the last! Mark my words!
Other genocides WILL happen again - as sure as war or famine! Question is, how often will they happen? Only as far as our enablement and dismissiveness of its adherents go! If you keep listing to this SICK, EVIL man’s music, YOU, yes YOU are the FUCKING PROBLEM!!
If you support Kanye, matter your color, I don’t wanna hear a fucking goddamn peep out of your mouth EVER about racism again, you fucking hypocrite. You’ve lost all the moral high ground, and you are absolutely no better than the Nazis you’re empowering. Fuck you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. And again if you’re offended by this rant, I hope you fucking change into a better person or do the works a favor and fucking die mad about. Cry me a river and then eat my ass before you go!
I was in a cafe, and Kanye West music started to play overhead. I thought of what he said, that he LOVES Hitler! That slavery was a choice. That the Holocaust at one didn’t happen, AND that they deserved it anyway!
When I voiced my disdain for how people still excuse the inexcusable, my friend said, “well, you have to separate the MAN from his music.” The more I thought of what she said, the more ENRAGED I got with her dismissiveness.
“Why? WHY?! Why do I “have to” separate him from his music? Because you like it?? Because YOU aren’t a Jew?? You are enabling and patronizing a literal NAZI! What would it take? What could this disgusting, evil fucking PIG do get people to finally swear off empowering him any further?? For most, the answer is NOTHING, but for some the answer may be a kick in the pants, which I shall now provide!
What blows my mind is that many of his defenders are PEOPLE OF COLOR! Groups I’d assumed knew better through their own experiences! People who told me “silence is violence” when it was THEIR group on the line! But who will NOT be lectured by a white man as myself when THEY remain silent about a group that’s not THEM! No, NO, I will not “stay in my lane” just because I’m a cis, straight yt man, if you’re offended by that, you are welcome to DIE MAD about it! Because if YOU are a POC and give Nazis a pass, it will come to you sooner than you realize!
NEWSFLASH: You think only the JEWS were exterminated in the Holocaust?? Jews were just the largest slice of the pie! NOT even most of it! Most were all the others combined! Gypsies, the mentally and physically disabled, Poles, LGBTs, I can’t even list them all here!
Children and babies gassed and burned, you MONSTER!
Kanye says he LOVES it all! YOU are dismissing and deflecting for him WHY??? Because his MUSIC is fire??
Would you give him a pass if he WEREN’T a musician? If a restaurateur said he LOVED SLAVERY and LYNCHING NIG***RS from trees, “let’s drag ‘em behind a truck!”, would you say, “Well, you have to separate the man from his establishment; his menu’s dope!” Fuck you, PIG! There is no longer ANY scenario left in which playing Kanye’s music is acceptable! If YOU are reading this, and YOU STILL listen to that disgusting, EVIL man, YOU are the problem. YOU!
Why? Because Kanye himself IS NOT the issue! Hitler-lovers go back as far as Hitler; Nazis will ALWAYS exist, but this isn’t a problem ONLY as long as they remain in the furthest extreme. If you keep them in the mainstream, you are committing a DANGEROUS act! One that even the victims of the Holocaust didn’t see coming because it was too bad to be true (so they thought)! It was far from the only genocide in history. AND it will NOT be the last! Mark my words!
Other genocides WILL happen again - as sure as war or famine! Question is, how often will they happen? Only as far as our enablement and dismissiveness of its adherents go! If you keep listing to this SICK, EVIL man’s music, YOU, yes YOU are the FUCKING PROBLEM!!
If you support Kanye, matter your color, I don’t wanna hear a fucking goddamn peep out of your mouth EVER about racism again, you fucking hypocrite. You’ve lost all the moral high ground, and you are absolutely no better than the Nazis you’re empowering. Fuck you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. And again if you’re offended by this rant, I hope you fucking change into a better person or do the works a favor and fucking die mad about. Cry me a river and then eat my ass before you go!
