Mental health communities online treat having mental illness as a status symbol. It's seen as a marker of being a cooler, unique individual. The celebration is nonsensical because mental illness by definition is bad. Illness is a bad thing. People who have mental illness aren't bad, but mental illness itself is bad.
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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