By definition, a mental illness is something negative. I would challenge those people who are saying that mental illness is their superpower to ever spend any time in an inpatient psychiatric facility as I have and see the absolutely wasted lives of many of the people you'll meet there. The point is not that you have to like Kanye West and that his mental illness completely excuses everything that he's saying and doing. But saying ADHD is my superpower is not something you buy into.
UnHerd's Florence Read meets American author Freddie deBoer to discuss the curious case of Kanye West.
In the space of a few months Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from world-famous rapper to appearing on Alex Jones’s InfoWars praising Hitler. It’s not clear if he will ever recover reputationally from the stigma of this episode.
What lessons can we take from the public's treatment of the rapper?
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