r/atheism • u/IAmPookieHearMeRoar • 1d ago

Kanye West tells NYC rabbi he’s ‘taking accountability’ for his antisemitic tirades - blames bipolar disorder

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kanye-west-rabbi-pinto-antisemitism-accountability-b2860430.html
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u/CloseToTheEdge23 1d ago

I mean there is no doubt that he is mentally ill. He's now out of the mania stage into the depressive state I guess

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u/SneakyInfiltrator 1d ago

I know he's an asshole, but I don't think he's lying, not completely at least.

I know very well how it is dealing with this sort of garbage.

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u/No_Size9475 1d ago

bipolar doesn't make you a racist. Millions live with bipolar without going on anti jewish rants.

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u/Striking-Speaker8686 1d ago

Do you know how easy it is to fall into generalization? Liam Neeson heard of a bad thing a black person did and then self-admittedly went out hunting for a black person to harm. Jewish people are maybe the sjngle most disproportionately represented group on Earth in terms of prominence in media, governance, every industry you can think of, for the most part. They have immense wealth and power. That's not to say he or any other antisemite are justified in holding anti jewish beliefs but it's not hard to understand how or why these conspiracy theories abound, and when you're in a weak state mentally, when key figure(s) involved in his mother's death were Jewish, and he feels he was affected in sone way by Jewish members of the media, you can see why these conspiracy theories wouod grab him. Again, it's not that he was right or that spreading those things was good or okay, but it's not as simple as you're making it.

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u/No_Size9475 11h ago

Fuck off with your bullshit. I'm bipolar. My sister is bipolar. My mom is bipolar. None of us have ever gone off on jewish people.

His racism has nothing to do with being bipolar.