On Ye

My exchange with Brian Niemier promoted me to write this:

For the record, I have no problem with Brian. I just wanted to use our exchange to talk about a broader point.

Ever since Ye started leaning more to the right, people on the right want to say Ye's been labeled crazy for 'speaking the truth,' but people on the right, who've only recently accepted Ye into their fold, haven't dealt with him since he burst on the hip hop scene in 2004 with his debut album College dropout. 

Long story short, Ye has mental problems. How bad they are is up for debate, but there's no doubt Ye has mental problems. The evidence is there, and the evidence is strong.

My argument is simple. Ye has been crazy long before his 2022 rants about jews, the media, porn and God. "Ye is crazy" isn't some new narrative created to silence Ye for "speaking the truth." If it was, there wouldn't be evidence of his mental instability dating back to 2018.

I've spoke about Ye here and here (both of those posts are videos showing fellow Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco talking about how Ye is biploar). He comes out and says Ye is bipolar.

Ye, in his own words, describes himself as bipolar:

In the same interview with Letterman, he further specified that his diagnosis let him ‘experience first-hand how people who have mental health issues get written off by society’. According to him, people ‘cut your sentences off halfway’,  say ‘don’t listen to him cause he’s crazy’ and ‘what you say doesn’t mean as much.’[5] On his experience with the disorder itself, he noted that he felt ‘hyper-paranoid’ and noting that ‘everything can feel as though it’s a “conspiracy”’.[6] At the same time, he explained his creativity as the direct result of his disorder. ‘If you want these crazy ideas and these crazy stages, this crazy music, and this crazy way of thinking, there’s a chance it might come from a crazy person’.

For the most part, Ye's always been this way. This doesn't mean we can dismiss what he says and it doesn't mean he's wrong. Each claim needs to be verified. The standard is simple. Is it true or is it false? His words shouldn't casually dismissed. Biploar people aren't always wrong.

Another thing I'd like to point out, is how people on the right can take some random 10 second clip of Joe Biden and come to the conclusion he isn't there mentally, but will see entire interviews with Ye and conclude he's perfectly there. 

I believe that's called confirmation bias. 

For the record, I think Joe Biden is not mentally fit for office and Ye has mental health issues.

Anyway...