Do you *really* hate Kanye?
"I Hate Kanye West!"
"I hated Kanye before hating Kanye was cool"
"What would your mother think?"
Seriously? Kanye interrupting a pointless acceptance speech, given by a vapid pop-star, upon receiving a completely meaningless award engenders hate? What was it about Kanye's (admittedly rude) outburst that touched such a nerve in people? Were people really so interested in what Taylor Swift had to say?
It would be easy, and intellectually lazy, to attribute the vitriol to nothing more than the usual racist outrage that (according to many) lurks, barely concealed, beneath the surface all over white-America.
I tend to think that (white) people are angry at what they see as a shift away from their "values." Kanye is a convenient symbol of this perceived shift, and so bears the brunt of white fury. If you are out there, talking about how you "hate" Kanye, or how Kanye should be somehow punished, I have three words for you:
Get A Grip.
If your value system includes lynching (as I've seen suggested in a few posts about Kanye recently), then your value system is broken. If you feel this passionately about the VMAs and Taylor Swifts right to thank God, her manager, her producer, her family, and all the girls who inspire her every day to keep writing crappy pop-country tunes that will be forgotten before she is old enough to drink legally, then your priorities are probably a little out of whack.
Kanye may be a douchebag, but who really cares? And why?
"I hated Kanye before hating Kanye was cool"
"What would your mother think?"
Seriously? Kanye interrupting a pointless acceptance speech, given by a vapid pop-star, upon receiving a completely meaningless award engenders hate? What was it about Kanye's (admittedly rude) outburst that touched such a nerve in people? Were people really so interested in what Taylor Swift had to say?
It would be easy, and intellectually lazy, to attribute the vitriol to nothing more than the usual racist outrage that (according to many) lurks, barely concealed, beneath the surface all over white-America.
I tend to think that (white) people are angry at what they see as a shift away from their "values." Kanye is a convenient symbol of this perceived shift, and so bears the brunt of white fury. If you are out there, talking about how you "hate" Kanye, or how Kanye should be somehow punished, I have three words for you:
Get A Grip.
If your value system includes lynching (as I've seen suggested in a few posts about Kanye recently), then your value system is broken. If you feel this passionately about the VMAs and Taylor Swifts right to thank God, her manager, her producer, her family, and all the girls who inspire her every day to keep writing crappy pop-country tunes that will be forgotten before she is old enough to drink legally, then your priorities are probably a little out of whack.
Kanye may be a douchebag, but who really cares? And why?
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