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This is what mental illness looks like. I hope he gets the help he needs and not the enablers that might end his life :/
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.
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?
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.
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
Mental illness doesn't make people nazis, just like mental illness doesn't make people mass shooters, that's simply not how it works.
Mental illness can make you susceptible to stuff like this
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.
Having tourettes doesn't make you post about being a Nazi....Jesus Christ that's dumb.
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”.
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.
I’m so sorry for your loss, I can’t imagine going through something like that.
He must have watched that one South Park episode and thought Cartman actually had Tourette's 😂
there's someone at my HS has Tourettes and occasionally I'll hear a really high pitched "fuck" along with some other noises
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.
Okay, so could you clarify exactly what you meant in the first paragraph?
No, I can't.
It's not mental illness, the guy is just a fucking Nazi. Fuck Kanye.
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.
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.