RE: [Vlog] Kanye West's 'slavery comment' hysteria says more about us than him
Yeah, and some of my best friends are Nazis... NOT.
Too much moral relativism is how such forces rise to power. The only thing we need to be intolerant of is intolerance itself, so when someone espousing intolerance as the current US president does (who was NOT fairly elected as current investigations will eventually show) that person needs to be denounced. As a people we need to speak up and say that this is NOT what America stands for, or at least not what we personally stand for. To do otherwise is to be complicit with the harms that result from racism, religious oppression, etc. that this administration stands for.
No one is forcing West to espouse his political views publicly. Just because he's a popular musician that doesn't mean he owes the public an expose on his political views. But when he voluntarily offers that he supports a neo-Nazi president, then tops up with a comment about slaves "asking for it," I say it is right for the people to speak up and treat him as if he is a nazi himself. That's truly being color blind.