After a long hiatus, Kanye West has returned to Twitter, and his political opinions have left a lot of people shook.
Kanye West and Candance Owens are so addicted to the white gaze that they believe black people would rather flounder in self-pity than pull themselves up by their bootstraps: https://t.co/8QzoHj2H8i pic.twitter.com/Czzw9goej8
— The Root (@TheRoot) April 23, 2018
Kanye morphed so quickly into his generation's Billy Corgan I didn't even have time to write a think piece about it
— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) April 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/988494319517564931
If Kanye West ends up with a regular segment on Fox & Friends I quit.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 23, 2018
In a conversation with radio host Ebro Darden, Kanye reportedly said he’s sick of people in Calabasas living in a liberal bubble. He also reportedly told the host that he “loves Donald Trump,” and that he was sick of being demonized by liberals for thinking Wrong Thoughts.
The man who once accused George W. Bush of not caring about black people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and said he was mulling over a potential presidential bid in 2015, once said he would have voted for Donald Trump if he had voted in the 2016 election.
Over the weekend, he tweeted that he loves the way right-leaning YouTuber Candace Owens thinks and challenged his fans to question liberal political orthodoxy.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/987696355341553665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theroot.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-987696355341553665%26autosize%3D1
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/988122922936975360
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/988456198599929856
On Monday, he tweeted out clips of Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams’s videos, in which the cartoonist said that many people are beginning to break free of “prisons of the mind.”
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/988452379224825856
Adams challenged the notion that history repeats itself, citing a political outsider’s rise to the Oval Office as evidence to prove that history is not cyclical.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/988453157167509504
The cartoonist also said the rapper “ripped a hole in reality” by expressing support for Owens.
“He just freed a lot of people from a mental prison,” Adams said.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/988456148905832448
The Washington Post has branded him a “hero of the pro-Trump Internet,” but some of Kanye’s more recent tweets show that he still holds many of the tenets of the Left. He affirmed gender-fluid ideology, critiqued capitalism, and said fearing God is antiquated.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/987420889258967040
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/987411705599746048
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/987699874362675201
He even tweeted about how much he loves his Tesla.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/988239336788279296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fkanye-west-wont-stop-tweeting-173942587.html&tfw_creator=wendygeller&tfw_site=YahooEnt
But apparently expressing skepticism of only some of the tenets of leftism — even while affirming others — has triggered many woke Internet types and spurred others to mock him for thinking differently.
https://twitter.com/zblay/status/988515696148656128
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/988120663046180865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fkanye-west-wont-stop-tweeting-173942587.html&tfw_creator=wendygeller&tfw_site=YahooEnt
kanye west is a famously narcissistic moron who literally cannot cope with the slightest bit of criticism… and you’ll never guess which political group he’s aligning with
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) April 23, 2018
Kanye’s new album track list:
“Alpha” ft. Scott Adams & Dilbert
“Free Market God” ft. Charlie Kirk
“I’m Very Confused”
“Mindset Locked & Loaded” ft. “Weird Mike” Cernovich
“Holocaust, Real?” ft. Anthony Scaramucci
— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 23, 2018
Kanye is a very good example of a vulnerable person looking for quick fix solutions to existential problems finding dudes on YouTube who claim to have all of them.
This is how the YouTube algorithm works. Hear you me, Stefan Molyneux is next.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 23, 2018
Kanye's next album is going to be:
"FW: RE: Fw: FW: FW: Red Pill"
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 23, 2018
There are no excuses for Kanye West's trash politics https://t.co/UjJZsCIBmw pic.twitter.com/YQ0GPXBtO3
— Jezebel (@Jezebel) April 23, 2018
my high school government teacher always bragged about how she used to teach kanye west and honestly i blame her for all this mrs. corbett you fucked up
— Matt Bellassai (@MattBellassai) April 23, 2018
Last week: Yay! Kanye’s back on Twitter!
This week: Omg he’s posting photos of himself in a Dilbert diaper in a cardboard prison labeled “wrongthink”
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) April 23, 2018
Last week: Yay! Kanye’s back on Twitter!
This week: Omg he’s posting photos of himself in a Dilbert diaper in a cardboard prison labeled “wrongthink”
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) April 23, 2018
So it’s apparently not enough for West to say that he holds aspects of liberal ideology to be true. He must embrace all aspects of progressivism or risk being shunned by the Twitter elites — which proves his point about people being locked into a mental prison by an unforgiving and politically insulated society.
Let Kanye live. The rapper isn’t a hero of the Right, nor has he discarded liberal politics. He’s expressing skepticism, which is apparently intolerable to people who demand wholesale acceptance of their own ideas.
