There's an insistence that mental illness is not provoked mass shootings. James Holmes, who something like 10 years ago or a little bit longer brought a shotgun and a handgun into a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and he murdered 12 people. He was just the right age to begin displaying psychotic symptoms. People with mental illness, severe mental illness, defecate on themselves and on the subway in New York. They sleep under bridges, they eat out of trash cans, they attack people, they hurt people. These things happen. That is a reality of mental illness, but it doesn't fit the picture of like normalization, right? Like the desire is to see mental ill people as
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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