jdoe
1yr ago
I agree with you.
First, he is not inciting violence like Musk claims. Twitter is also full of anti-white messaging that is quite a bit worse than anything Kanye said, and Elon doesn't seem to be banning those accounts unless they are in fact inciting violence.
Secondly, if I understand him correctly, he is claiming that there is a powerful, organized Jewish mafia that controls incredibly influential positions in our political, business, and other power structures. This is a vague claim that has fuzzy definitions already, and automatically labeling it as antisemitism is not helpful if we want to address it and understand it in any meaningful way. Just like our fight against Italian American Mafia was not labeled as anti-Italian fight. Still, it apparently took US government an incredibly long time to publicly acknowledge the existence of Mafia with J. Edgar Hoover even in 1951 proclaiming that "there is no mafia."
We should be able to have a frank conversation about Jewish power in the US and its legitimacy instead of brushing it under the rug. A precedent has already been set with a public and mainstream debate about white power and privilege and its legitimacy.
I believe that automatically labeling Kanye as an anti-Semite when he first tried to address his living experience with some of the allegedly shady Jewish people he had business with may be the reason for his downward spiral resulting in him dressing up as a gimp and admiring Hitler. For Kanye, I assume that's like the parable of lighting from Scott Alexander when he knows in his head that something is true, yet he finds himself not able to have an honest conversation with anyone that is not an outcast already. If only he could explain that lightning comes before thunder, people will understand it. Or so he thought.
No mention of Bayes yet?
SF has so many progressive people that you will still end up with mostly progressive crowd at an event (Chappelle) that is slightly less progressive coded.
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