Kanye, how are you? You will probably never read this, but I am writing to you anyway; perhaps to vent or simply to get my message across. That's what I do. That's enough for me.
I don't believe you posted hateful antisemitic messages because you are antisemitic. No, you are simply a narcissist who doesn't know how to handle fame. You are surrounded by sycophants who follow you and applaud you for whatever nonsense you say just for a slice of your fame and your millions of dollars. If you were just a normal person like me, you would be laughed at. As an Argentinian, you remind me of Maradona in that sense.
Evidently, you have bad blood with some Jews and, from what I am told, your ex-wife was sleeping (or still is sleeping) with a part-Jewish man. To you, like a jealous and capricious teenager, this justifies spewing irrational hatred towards an entire people. How low can you go, Ye? How ridiculous and childish can you be? You are 45 years old. It's time to grow up. Life is not easy. Sometimes we are sad, sometimes angry and sometimes humiliated. What can you do? When we hit a wall, we cry, we vent to our friends, we have a couple of beers to drown our sorrows, we go to therapy if necessary, and we go on living, facing our difficulties as best as we can.
That Jews own the press, that Jews own companies that run the world... How many spiteful antisemitic slogans can you spout? You have actually admitted that you envy us. Don't envy us, Ye. There are successful Jews and there are those of us who are not. I envy you - not your unpredictable character, not your poor lucidity, not your childishness, but your creative talents and money. I am Jewish, but I have nothing for you to envy. Moreover, you are clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed. I have less than you for many reasons, but I would like to point out one in particular: I supported you throughout your campaign of White Lives Matter. I thought you were irreverent out of conviction, because you were really tired of all the bullshit of Black Lives Matter and the hypocrisy of progressivism. However, I now realize that you were doing it because, like the impulsive and attention-thirsty baby that you are, you just wanted to be noticed. You only opposed the status quo in order to be seen as a rebel. I got carried away. I applauded, supported and defended you, but I did not see the forest. I only saw the tree. I believe that conservatives should not follow my example. Do they really think Ye supports Trump out of conviction? Do you think that such a person does anything out of conviction? One must be cautious.
If conservatives really want to differentiate themselves from hypocritical progressivism, they should not fall in love with famous people because they say something that agrees with conservative ideas.
Ian Haworth critiqued conservatism in an article published in the Washington Examiner, which should serve as a warning. Haworth argued that "despite declaring that celebrities are false idols in our society in a sometimes jealous response to the Left’s undeniable domination of culture, conservatives are too often desperately hungry to gain any cultural relevance they can." He continued: "And this desperation has one particularly irreparable consequence: The conservative movement is damaged by rushing to celebrate a single celebrity because he or she said one supposedly conservative thing — among a sea of not-so-conservative things." He concluded:
Conservatives must ask ourselves: Is it worth rushing to idolize a celebrity every single time he or she presents us with an opportunity to “win” a tiny element of the culture war if it means setting fire to our very ideological foundation? I would argue, as loudly as humanly possible, that it is not.
If conservatives really want to differentiate themselves from hypocritical progressivism, they should not fall in love with famous people because they say something that agrees with conservative ideas. For cheap slogans, personalism and blind fanaticism, we already have the Left.
But let progressivism not be distracted now. In this sense, the message Pastor Dumisani Washington, founder and director of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI), shared on Twitter is apt:
To all the progressives who, because of Kanye West, just discovered that antisemitism in the US is a problem — good morning. Now, you might want to start cleaning your own house. It’s been unattended for quite a while. Should definitely start on the college campuses.
Ye, you referred to the Jewish "agenda." One of your many Hitlerian comments; yes, Hitlerian. What agenda are you referring to? Is my agenda like Soros', for example? Do we Jews all aspire to the same thing? Progressives, Jewish or not, are almost less accepting than the white supremacists, your new supporters. The thing is, they are actually using you: you know they would hang you and set you on fire if they could, of course. Good move, Ye. Another excellent result of your hateful tantrum is that even the progressive collective, where antisemitism is abundant, manages to put aside their own hatred for Jews to accuse you of being antisemitic. Well done, Ye. Now you have the Nazis on your side. You gave the progressives a gift, and now it will be harder for us to prove their hypocrisy. Bravo!
You have used the term Zionist as an insult despite the fact that you have repeatedly visited Israel and praised the kibbutz movement. This shows just how incongruous and contradictory you are. You can go from one extreme to the other suddenly, depending on how you wake up or who you have a trivial disagreement with. To call this attitude flippant would be flattering.
You say you can't be antisemitic because black people are Jewish too (which comes from the antisemitic discourse of the Black Israelite movement, of course). What a Jew you are! You have endangered your brethren with your arrogant comments. It is this tactless arrogance that characterizes you; an arrogance that you clearly use to cover up your ignorance. Anyway, you know that many, too many, will applaud you regardless of what you say, just as they did in Argentina with Maradona. However, you should know that traces of the blood of any Jew who is attacked will be on your hands.
Jews have overcome countless atrocious persecutions, including black Jews in Africa. You will soon realize (or maybe not, I don't know anymore) that we will also be able to overcome the delusional comments of a resentful narcissist like you. I don't think you need to apologize, let alone write a whole essay like you did following your antisemitic comments. As I mentioned, you are not an antisemite. But you must recognize that you are impulsive, unbalanced and childish. As egotistical as you may be on the outside, it's apparent that your self-esteem is through the floor. It's best to simply recognize that you are not credible and should never be taken seriously. Admitting this would be the first step to redeeming yourself.
A few years ago, South Park portrayed you perfectly. The cartoon showed you as a man who was arrogant to the extreme, unstable, lost, violent and dumb to the point that he couldn't comprehend a simple joke. At the time, I thought they overreacted. Today I believe that reality has surpassed fiction.
Shalom.
