Damn Kanye, I Did Nazi That Coming
At some point we need to stop pretending we’re shocked when terrible people do terrible things. Or, as Maya Angelou put it, “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Roseanne Barr was dressing up as Hitler (and eating lightly charred “Jew cookies”) long before the racist tweet that torpedoed her career.
Chrissy Teigen spent over a decade bullying people (including children) on Twitter before someone thought to ask whether goading a 16-year-old to kill herself might be over the line.
And most recently, Kanye West. A man who’s spent most of his career saying whatever contrarian, brain-dead nonsense that pops into his head has finally gone “death con 3” on whatever goodwill his musical talents afforded him.
Whether it’s suggesting that slavery was a choice, stopping a concert because a wheelchair-using fan didn’t stand up, or his most recent spate of antisemitism, Kanye’s asinine behaviour is one of the few things we can depend on in these uncertain times.
Although, I have to admit, the gimp mask? The anthropomorphised fishing net? The straight-up holocaust denial?!
