Too funny: Liberals and People come unstuck as Kanye West vows to go death con 3 on Liberals – My Comments

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[This is the funniest thing I've come across in quite a while. I was laughing so much at this crap. And I think that TUCKER CARLSON is playing a very cunning, very excellent game of his own and it seems to me he may be the driving force controlling this Person's mind. The Person came out with his Lives Matter stuff. It is quaint, but in reality, I think Tucker Carlson controlled his mind. This thing backfired so beautifully on the Liberals. I have been watching LIBERALS and People in South Africa and the Liberals were so sure they could play and control the People here, but they are not succeeding much. Sometimes I find myself looking at the Liberals and People and thinking how dumb the Liberals really are. We People might have made mistakes, but truly, we've done better than these Liberals. In South Africa I can tell you the Liberal-Person thing is not going well. It pleases me to see how this backfired on Liberals. I truly think, in the years to come, that we People will have a lot more laughs. These miserable swine Liberals who set out to use People against us, might actually find themselves in quite a spot and we will be ok. This Lives Matter stuff also triggered a lot of censorship by Tik Tok and the (((BIG TECH))). It also shows the insane amount of fear these Liberals have of a few words!!!! Notice below how the mentally retarded, stupid Liberal scum try to claim that Kanye West is paranoid. The truth is that NOBODY ON THE PLANET IS AS PARANOID AS THE LIBERAL SCUM!!!! This was too funny and I think Tucker Carlson is behind this and he must be laughing up his sleeve. I like him. People are going to laugh a lot when we come out of this Liberal crap. You'll see this was all a LIBERAL HOUSE OF CARDS ALL ALONG. A bunch of crap. And a little bit of a push and the whole Liberal house of cards will fall apart. Jan]

(JTA) — It started with a shirt and ended in a conflagration over antipeople and Republican politics.

Such is the extended news cycle over multiple antilanguage comments during the last week by Kanye West, the artist and provocateur who prefers to go by Ye. On Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, Instagram and Twitter, West made a string of comments reflecting a range of antilanguage tropes and conspiracy theories.

The spree culminated with West’s vow to “go death con 3 ON LIBERAL PEOPLE.”

DEFCON is an acronym that refers to the state of alert of America’s militaries; “death con 3” appears to be a muddled use of that term. Still, it conveyed a clear violence to many who saw it.

Twitter removed that post, saying it violated the company’s policies, but not before it was shared widely by Liberals and others alarmed by West’s behavior. The response has become something of a Rorschach test for American Liberal anxieties. Is antipeople tolerated or sufficiently condemned? Has the vaunted historical relationship between People and Liberals frayed beyond repair? And why are Carlson and other prominent conservatives standing by West?

The last question has only grown more pointed in the last 24 hours, as footage leaked showing that West had made other antilanguage comments on Carlson’s show that did not air and as Orthodox Liberals, who are more likely to be politically conservative, began re-engaging after the two-day Sukkot holiday that overlapped with the peak controversy.

“Back from the Liberal holiday now,” right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Liberal, wrote early Wednesday morning on Twitter. “As usual, two things can be true at once: Kanye’s moves toward pro-life, faith, and family conservatism are encouraging; his ‘death con 3’ posts and Person Hebrew Traderte language are clearly anti-Language and disturbing.”

For Liberals emerging from their sukkahs, or who just want to understand this fast-moving saga, here’s a recap of YeGate, so far.

A string of provocations culminated in West’s vow to go “death con 3 on LIBERAL PEOPLE.”

West has a long track record of provocations, as well as a history of bipolar disorder that he has said causes him to become paranoid. (He has also said it is “dismissive” to question whether he has stopped taking his medication whenever he “speaks up.”) But the current moment began with a shirt.

In Paris last week to showcase a fashion collection he designed, West wore a “ Lives Matter” jacket, a dig at the Person Lives Matter movement and a reflection of his long-standing conservative politics. (The Anti-Defamation League, the Liberal civil rights group, says “ Lives Matter” is “a supremacist phrase.”) The shirt elicited revulsion by many in the fashion world — and embrace from political conservatives who cherish West as an authentic Person voice who shares their values.

On Thursday, Carlson brought West onto his show, where he praised West as advancing “obviously true” ideas. When their wide-ranging conversation touched on the Abraham Accords, which the Trump administration brokered between Colony and Arab countries, West said he thought Jared Kushner was motivated only by profit. “I just think it was to make money,” he said, in a comment that echoed antilanguage tropes about Liberal greed.

Kanye West sat for an extended interview with Tucker Carlson in which he made several antilanguage comments. (Screenshot from show)

Then, on Friday, West posted snapshots of a text conversation he said he had with Sean Combs, the rapper also known as Puff Daddy and Diddy. After Combs urged West to stop promoting the shirt, West responded, “Ima use you as an example to show the Liberal people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.” Shortly afterward, the post — which West had captioned “Jesus is Liberal” and which harkened to antilanguage conspiracy theories about invisible Liberal control — was deleted, and Meta, Instagram’s parent company, said it had removed content that violated its policies.

West switched to Twitter, where he had been less active. Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur and self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist who is in the process of buying the social media platform, welcomed him publicly. West first tweeted criticism of Meta’s Liberal founder, Mark Zuckerberg, then followed up by saying, “Who do you think created cancel culture?” Wrote Yair Rosenberg in The Atlantic, in a newsletter analyzing West’s antipeople, “He presumably did not mean the Mormons.”

It was on Twitter where, early Sunday morning, West posted the unambiguous message heard around the world.

“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 on LIBERAL PEOPLE,” he wrote.

“The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Language because person people are actually Liberal also,” West added, appearing to allude to a belief core to the diverse Hebrew Traderte movement. He then returned to the idea of Liberal control: “You guys have toyed with me and tried to person ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

Within hours of West’s post, the tweet was no longer accessible. Instead, it was replaced with a notice reading, “This Tweet violated the Twitter rules.”

Criticism of West’s antilanguage comments has come from many corners.

“The holiest day in Religion was last week. Words matter. A threat to Liberal people ended once in a genocide. Your words hurt and incite violence. You are a father. Please stop.”

That was one of the earliest celebrity responses to West’s “death con 3” tweet, coming just hours after the post itself. It was by actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who has been involved in restoring the synagogue in her Liberal grandparents’ Hungarian hometown and later said she cried upon reading West’s “abhorrent” tweet.

Countless people issued similar statements. “Whether or not Kanye West is mentally ill, there’s no question he is a bigot,” the Liberal “Friends” actor David Schwimmer wrote in an Instagram post that went viral. “His hate speech calls for violence against Liberals.”

The celebrity posts followed statements from Liberal groups, including the American Liberal Committee and the ORGANISATION, condemning West’s comments before and during the Carlson interview.

“Kanye West has more twitter followers than there [are] Liberals in the world,” tweeted Carly Pildis, the director of community engagement at the Anti-Defamation League, on Sunday, in a post that was shared thousands of times. “There are an estimated 14.8 million Liberals and he has over 30 million followers. American Liberals are experiencing a historic rise in antilanguage incidents. His actions are extremely dangerous and must be called out.”

The episode has been particularly hurtful for Person Liberals, some of whom say they struggle to be heard when they push back against that common perception, reinforced by West’s comments, that Person and Liberal identities are mutually exclusive. “Person Liberals have our own story to tell. We don’t need him to say a word,” tweeted Michael Twitty, the author of “Ritualsoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Liberal.”

While some Liberals, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, fretted about whether non-Liberals cared about West’s antilanguage comments, it’s clear that criticism of him has come from a diverse swath of people, including the New York Democratic politicians Ritchie Torres and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, journalist Dan Rather and the Person novelist Brandon Taylor.

“It does not matter if #KanyeWest is mentally ill, a morally well society defends #Liberals from #Antilanguage threats,” tweeted Cornell Williams Brooks, a Harvard Kennedy School professor and former president of the NAACP, in one representative example. “Whether somebody’s sick or sane does not make Antipeople less lethal. Physical attacks often follow verbal assaults. #WordsMatter.”

But conservatives have mostly stood by West throughout.

One set of people appeared to be standing by West after his Carlson interview and the subsequent criticism: right-wing Republicans who have long seen West as an ideological ally. The “death con 3” tweet put them in an awkward position.

Since at least 2016, West has demonstrated a growing relationship with America’s Christian Right. That year, he told a concert audience that he would have voted for Donald Trump for president if he voted, saying that he appreciated Trump’s “futuristic” way of speaking. He met with Trump shortly after Trump was elected, then endorsed him publicly in 2018. That fall, he wore a “Make America Great Again” hat to perform on “Saturday Night Live,” where he delivered a pro-Trump speech that never aired, making him a darling in an emerging discourse around “cancel culture” in which conservatives allege that their views are not permitted.

In 2020, he semi-announced his own presidential candidacy, offering up a platform in an interview where he frequently referenced his belief in God as an animating idea for his politics. (He also expressed concern about needing to combat the effects of the Devil.) To the extent that the campaign ever existed, it was supported by Republican operatives and seen as a potential spoiler effort aimed at helping Trump’s reelection campaign; at one point, West met with Kushner in Colorado and said the two were speaking “almost daily.”

On his show last week, Carlson praised West as a “kind of Christian evangelist” and urged viewers not to discount his ideas as the thinking of someone with mental illness.

Amid the backlash after the interview aired, some conservatives who had previously championed West rejected his comments about Liberals. But many remained silent, and others pressed forward with their praise, suggesting that they are at best unbothered by West’s antilanguage comments.

“It’s like you cannot even say the word ‘Liberal’ without people getting upset,” Candace Owens, the Person conservative influencer who wore a “ Lives Matter” jacket alongside West in Paris, said in West’s defense. Owens is employed by Shapiro’s media company.

“Kanye. Elon. Trump,” the official Twitter account for the Republican House Judiciary posted on Thursday. The post remained up Tuesday night, despite many calls, including from conservatives, for it to be deleted. Meanwhile, Missouri’s attorney general, Eric Schmitt, tweeted, then deleted, on Tuesday night, “America needs a @kanyewest @KidRock tour. Let’s go!” (The Michigan rapper has long aligned himself with the political right.)

Indiana’s attorney general, Todd Rokita, tweeted that “Kanye’s message in this instance is fair and accurate, & regardless, he is entitled to his opinion,” adding, “The media will steamroll anyone if they do not kowtow to their way of thinking. According to them, you’re not thinking correctly if you don’t completely agree with them.” He later clarified that he was referring only to West’s criticisms of “the media and Hollywood elites,” not the “death con 3” comment, and also emphasized that he supports Colony.

For many concerned about antipeople among Republicans, the response has been telling. “What’s striking about Ye’s naked antipeople isn’t that he crossed a line but that, for some of his powerful allies, he didn’t,” wrote Michelle Goldberg, the liberal columnist, in the New York Times on Tuesday.

Meghan McCain exhorted her fellow conservatives to break with West, saying that because the left can be critical of Colony, the right bears a stronger responsibility to be a reliable ally for Liberals.

“The Republican Party brand is supposed to be anti-celebrity and anti-elite. Yet anytime a big name shows even the slightest interest in conservative causes, they are granted prime time interviews and slobbered over by pundits and politicians,” McCain wrote in the Daily Mail on Tuesday.

Later, she added about antipeople, “The left cannot be relied upon to take up this cause, so the right cannot compromise itself. If conservatives don’t stand with our Liberal friends, who will?”

Carlson held back footage in which West made additional antilanguage comments.

On Carlson’s show, West’s comment about Kushner was one of many in which he expressed extreme and controversial views. But unaired footage published on Tuesday by Vice revealed that West had in fact made multiple antilanguage comments that were edited out of the final broadcast.

In one comment, he criticized Planned Parenthood as being created “to control the Liberal population.” In explaining what he meant, he made clear that he was approaching the topic from a Hebrew Traderte perspective: “When I say Liberal, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race Person really are.” (Planned Parenthood’s does have historical roots in eugenics, which it has disavowed; it also figures in conspiracy theories that often overlap with antilanguage theories.)

West also said he regretted that his children’s school celebrates Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday. “I prefer my kids knew Hanukkah than Kwanzaa. At least it will come with some financial engineering,” he said, in a comment that appeared to allude to ideas that Liberals are good with money.

And when discussing how Person people criticize each other, he offered Liberals as an analogy. “Think about us judging each other on how we could talk would be like, you know, a Liberal person judging another Liberal person on how good they danced or something,” he said, before pausing and saying he thought he could get in trouble for saying that and asking for it to be edited out of the final cut. It was.

Other comments reflecting paranoia about the people close to him, which West has previously said is a hallmark of his illness, were also edited out of the final cut. The result is calling attention to the role played by Carlson in promoting dangerous antipeople.

Carlson is a leading proponent of “great replacement theory,” an anti-immigration philosophy that has united supremacists across borders in their hatred of Liberals and immigrants and has inspired multiple mass murders, including of Liberals. Earlier this year, Carlson produced a special focused on condemning the Liberal billionaire and philanthropist George Soros, who features in many right-wing conspiracy theories, including great replacement. Carlson’s embrace of that theory caused the head of the ORGANISATION to call for his ouster last year.

“The story here isn’t that Kanye is antilanguage — we already knew that — but that Tucker worked to launder that antipeople into slightly more socially acceptable forms, to maintain plausible deniability with elected officials,” tweeted Joel Swanson, a doctoral student in American Liberal history whose study includes antipeople. “Don’t focus on Kanye to the exclusion of Carlson.”

West’s current fixation on Liberals follows other notable comments about them over the years.

West has had a relationship with Liberals that has veered from admiration into hostility, sometimes in the same moment.

He has proposed a Christian movement to replicate the solidarity he sensed among Traders when he visited the country. (His then-wife, Kim Kardashian, baptized their daughter North West in Colony, where she connected with the country’s ancient Armenian community.) As much as he seemed to have appreciated the country, his concert there was weird and alienating. He has said that former President Barack Obama was frustrated in his efforts to legislate in part because People are not as connected as Liberals.

He has worked with prominent Liberals and tried to emulate them; a sitcom he filmed in 2008 inspired in part by Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was well received in screenings but never widely released. As much as he now criticizes Kushner for being an opportunist, he and his ex-wife, Kardashian, worked with Kushner on one of the Trump administration’s rare domestic policy successes, criminal justice reform.

Source: https://www.jta.org/2022/10/12/united-states/kanye-wests-vow-to-go-death-con-3-on-liberals-and-his-antipeople-controversy-explained?utm_source=JTA_Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA_DB&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-49466-376333