And, as I'm sure will have to be repeated dozens more times on this doomed thread: the mental illness thing isn't hypothetical. He was hospitalized for it, diagnosed, and is open about it. He attributes his success to it!
>Carlson’s program also didn’t air a strange claim from Ye that “fake children” had been placed in his house to manipulate his children. “I mean, like actors, professional actors, placed into my house to sexualize my kids,” he told Carlson. He referred to the “so-called son” of an associate, seemingly to imply the child was fake.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad77y/kanye-west-tucker-car...
I have no idea what exactly he is trying to say and I don't know the context, so it's not clear to me what to make of it.
It's right there in the quote that you pasted. Not sure what context you're missing.
Considering the way the entertainment industry in America uses kids, this is one of the least insane things Kanye has said. Anybody with sense would try to keep their kids away from the entertainment industry, who groom children to be products without regard for their welfare. How many former child actors need to go crazy before you notice the pattern?
Kanye West is pushing conspiracies a little further, into the domestic realm.
What's upsetting is that when ordinary John Does promote conspiracy theories they are shunned, but when it's a successful artist we try to find them excuses.
This is what happens in these discussions: people take the genuinely batshit things he's saying and then generalize them to a point where they're merely stupid, and not batshit. Then they say "well, that might be wrong, but it's not crazy!". Well, you're right: it's not crazy. It's also not what he said.
Also, believing members of your family are impersonators or aliens is something young siblings try to persuade one another all the time. It's not unheard of.
Anyway, my larger point is that we should not tolerate antisemitism because of "crazy". Just because one adds outrageous beliefs on top of hate doesn't excuse the hate.
This is, to me, what is missing from this entire thing. Kanye is bipolar, yes, but I don't think anything he's points to some kind of manic outburst. What he said over the past few weeks have be fairly mainstream (or sub-mainstream) conservative talking points. Maybe not the ones that get blasted on Fox News, but the ones that shared and like with Fox News posts on Facebook.
To me the "Kanye is mentally ill" is a cover to hide some very pervasive talking points in conservative circles. It's an extension of the mass misinformation problems that we as a society have been dealing with since COVID and Kanye is the latest victim.
When you say crazy things, it is correct to call them crazy.