• madcaesar@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 hours ago

    Why are people excusing this as “mental illness”? What if he’s just an asshole Nazi, no mental illness necessary

  • Ascrod@midwest.socialEnglish
    14·
    3 hours ago

    This guy needs serioua help

    Whether that help is medication and therapy or a long walk off a short pier I can’t say.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      2·
      21 minutes ago

      I was about to say the same. Kanye is clearly going through emotional cascades that he doesn’t know how to handle, especially after him and his wife divorced.

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 hours ago

    Oh dear Kanye, you have no clue that While Elon is currently part of the US govt, you’re a worthless Anti-Citizen

      • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        11 hours ago

        I think when Ye met with Trump in the oval office he unlocked his phone and his pin was 0000

  • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
    698·
    22 hours ago

    This is what mental illness looks like. I hope he gets the help he needs and not the enablers that might end his life :/

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      14·
      11 hours ago

      Sure, he’s mentally ill, but that also doesn’t excuse being a nazi. It may explain it, but he still deserves to be punched in the mouth for it.

      It’s also disingenuous and harmful to just use mental illness to attempt to dismiss it. People with mental illness already have a hard enough time living their lives without being compared to literal nazis.

      Mental illness doesn’t magically make you a Nazi. Plenty of manic people just think they can fly, or make really nice art. But instead, this dude uses his platform to boost nazis.

      • Katrisia@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Also, even if his mania turned him into a horrible person, it would be understandable that the first one was sudden and therefore not preventable, but this is like the second or third time he does this. So… what about his responsibility while stable to medicate and find ways to remain as stable as possible?

    • klemptor@startrek.website
      87·
      21 hours ago

      He may be mentally ill, but during these episodes he always goes to this Nazi shit. I think the mental illness just unmasks what he really feels.

      • brognak@lemm.ee
        6·
        14 hours ago

        I mean at least he seems to realize in the full thread saying this shit is problematic, as opposed to just blurting it out completely unqualified per usual. Not making excuses, at the end of the day fuck Kanye, but this seems a very fine hair more sane than usual.

        Maybe I am just reading into it weird, granted it’s Ye so weird is the only way it can be read shrug

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      553·
      21 hours ago

      Mental illness doesn’t make people nazis, just like mental illness doesn’t make people mass shooters, that’s simply not how it works.

      • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
        205·
        20 hours ago

        Mental illness can make you susceptible to stuff like this

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        222·
        21 hours ago

        Hmmm, I seem to remember there’s a mental illness that causes one to randomly spout the most vile shit they can think of. Begins with a T?

        Can you see where I’m going with that? In any case, illness can certainly make people violent. Look at Alzheimer’s for example. Hell, look at Charles Whitman. He knew something was wrong with him, and getting worse. After he was shot out of the clock tower they autopsied and found a brain tumor.

        • gzerod200@lemmy.world
          282·
          20 hours ago

          You… you aren’t trying to imply Tourette Syndrome, right? Because that’s not how Tourette’s works, like, at all. I would know, because I have it.

          In reality, we have a set of “tics”, which are just small noises or motions we make uncontrollably. Of course, for some people it’s more severe, but the worst I’ve ever heard about is that some people may yell out swear words as one of their tics. But In no circumstance would it ever cause someone to type out and post “I’m a nazi” or “I love hitler”.

          • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            7 hours ago

            Of course not. I’m bringing up the fact that mental illness can cause people to act hateful, or, ya know, turn into mass shooters which OP denies is possible.

          • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
            131·
            20 hours ago

            My late son had Tourette syndrome as well. Normally he had his physical and small verbal tics, but he also would get the bad word tics, I think it is called Coprolalia. But he literally never tweeted the stuff.

          • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            16 hours ago

            there’s someone at my HS has Tourettes and occasionally I’ll hear a really high pitched “fuck” along with some other noises

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 hours ago

        I mean, the dude is undeniably mentally ill, and he likely refuses to treat it because the meds make him feel “numb” and he makes music when he’s manic. But mania is on the same classification as schizophrenia, and comes with many of the same issues.

        But yeah, in Kanye’s case he’s just a fucking Nazi who happens to have rampant untreated mental illness. The mental illness doesn’t excuse the Nazi bullshit.

    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
      81·
      21 hours ago

      He’s never going to get the help he needs. The only thing keeping him alive is his wealth. If he was a normal guy he’d be in prison or dead already.

      • naeap@sopuli.xyz
        7·
        19 hours ago

        Nah, just answering his question

        This idiot, as mentally disabled and a black, would have get gassed and burned in my country, while his favourite leader was active here

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
    73·
    15 hours ago

    OK so hear me out.

    I’m not that into celebrities, especially those who think self aggrandizement is essential to their personalities after they make it big…so…

    that being said I just realized P Diddy and Kanye were 2 different people.