One of the things that so jars with the banning of Ye for his Heil Hitler song, was his desire to meet with the Jewish community, as if … “Who … who the hell do you think you are?” And not just, what on earth makes him think the Jewish community wants to hear him explain away his praise and profiting from praising the greatest genocidalist of all time, not just this song but swastika T-shirts et al. I mean, why would any of us brook allowing this hate preacher into our country?
To those arguing for free speech – so-called ‘patriots’ like Nigel Farage, who as a young ‘un somehow got a copy of the Hitler Youth songbook – have you forgotten, this is Britain. We can yet be staggered again at how far the Overton Window has shifted that such True Brits would allow this kind of hate preacher to infiltrate our borders, because yet they forget: Nearly 384,000 Brits and personnel from the Empire died fighting the Nazis, in a war that in the European theatre killed tens of millions. Nazi high explosives dropped by planes or nailed onto drones and rockets killed some 40,000 British civilians. Including, nearly, my dad, born in an air raid, and then his family when a V1 scooted over the house and took out a street 300 yards away, and the school friends of my uncle, who became a brilliant doctor, but for his experience as an infant absolutely hates Germans to this day.
That’s hardwired trauma that we still live with, to this day. They survived the war, they’re still alive, so is the trauma, and all the countless lives in this country alone affected for ever after by this incredible barbarity. Why doesn’t Ye talk to them? Why doesn’t Ye offer a free concert for the veterans and all who line up at the 100,000-plus war memorials across the country we all attend on Remembrance Sunday?
Absolutely not: my message to Ye
No, no you can’t come here and praise a mass murderer, for fun, for money, even if the corps of record producers, video producers, film makers, dancers, distributors, the millions of downloaders all chose to indulge and enable this episode of what Ye likes to dismiss as mania – NBC reported on the song’s release that Spotify and SoundCloud among others removed it, but X didn’t, where it clocked up millions of views in no time millions of views – which itself is utter cr**, I know bipolar folks who in the throes of highs or lows do not praise Hitler.
Well, if this kind of stuff really floats your boat, you can still go on X, or find it somewhere on the Net. But we don’t have to host your Nuremberg Rally of rap. Forget your apologies. Forget your blaming of mental health for behaviours that yet elude countless millions of other sufferers. Forget your friends, your business, your fans dancing to this shit. Forget it, Just stay the forget away from here
