July 20, 2020
Kanye's endgame
By William Sullivan
Two weeks ago, Kanye West burst onto the scene as a 2020 presidential candidate. He won’t win, of course, but it makes for sensational popcorn fodder in politics. That’s something Kanye’s good at serving up, and this may be his best yet.
Back in 2018, he turned heads by suggesting that he “likes the way Candace Owens thinks.†It was a seismic moment in the culture and for free speech, because the attacks he received didn’t cause him to bow down before his detractors, as so many before him had done. He fiercely defended himself, saying that the “thought police want to demonize thought,†followed by an attack on a status quo that demands conformity to its ideas, saying that “[w]e live in time where people don’t respect people for being themselves,†and rather, “[p]eople respect people for following the general trend and consensus.†“There was a time that slavery was the trend and apparently that time is still upon us,†he said. “But now it’s a mentality.â€
I didn’t know anything about Kanye’s political philosophy at the time, but that’s good stuff.
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