Dear Kanye, It’s Not Jews Canceling You |
I see you are once again in the headlines for the wrong reasons, facing backlash over years-old comments, for which you have already apologized. And I want to be clear: despite what Jew haters may claim, it is not “the Jews” canceling you.
You are being condemned by a culture of trend-following outrage, one in which public denunciation has become performance art and where many people treat whatever controversy is most fashionable that week as their latest moral crusade. You are being canceled by those who thought two protesters murdered in US was genocide, but tens of thousands of protesters murdered in Iran was not their business. You are being condemned by manufactured anger, for being an easy target.
As a Jew, certainly not a representative of all Jews, I will say plainly that the most troubling thing you ever said was not your threat to go “death con 3 on Jewish people”. It was your statement that “slavery was a choice,” a remark that trivialized centuries of suffering and insulted millions of black Americans, including your own community. Wearing a Klan-like outfit was worse than a swastika. So if you want to continue the apology tour, which I do not recommend, please start with your family. As you have commented, Jews think harmony within our community is important.
Your inflammatory comments about Jews struck most of us less as hardened........