Do you think there are malign actors around Kanye West who are kind of feeding him these narratives or do you think it's something he's come to organically? I don't know. I wonder who's in his entourage, right? You can look at someone like Kyrie Irving who's a basketball player in the United States who's been facing a lot of public scrutiny because he recommended a movie that repeats the sort of black Hebrew Israelite slur against Jews. Do you think the current story of race relations in the US in particular has fed into this, the us and them view that has been, I think, promoted by many of the liberal outlets in the US?"
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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