Let The Deplatforming of Kanye Commence

It's time to take away his microphone and photo opps.

It is generally accepted and infinitely correct that Kanye West is mentally ill.

We know that he needs to be institutionalized, hospitalized, or otherwise remanded to a facility where he can be treated and removed as a danger from himself and society.

What is also obvious is that Kanye’s racially based self-hatred, antisemitic, and Nazi-loving comments have flipped the responsibility script.

When someone makes incendiary, socially irresponsible comments, they should be held accountable for their words. The old analogy of yelling fire in a crowded theater still applies.

Yes, you can say it, even if it’s not true. But the theater also has the right, in fact, responsibility to remove that person who is creating tension and panic.

Kanye West will continue to talk about “going death con 3 (sic) on the Jews,” speaking admiringly of Hitler, proclaim that “White Lives Matter,” and associate with White Supremacists like Nick Fuentes and Alex Jones as long as there are cameras and microphones nearby.

He will post the lowest form of bigoted dreck as long as there are social media sites that allow it.

Kanye is sick, but what about the people that give him the spotlight?

It is unhealthy for anyone to think that allowing West to air his mental disorders in a public forum is just or reasonable.

It is hypocritically untenable that the media gives him the attention and coverage, and then sensationalizes his statements.

For Kanye’s sake, and to limit the opportunities for fellow crackpots and crazies to be inspired to hate, he shouldn’t be interviewed.

He shouldn’t be given any kind of audience anywhere.

Let him roam the dark web where he will find too many like-minded compatriots.

Relegate him to chat rooms and limited audiences.

Confine his bigotry to the nether regions where it belongs.

But just as importantly,

When all that is done, and Kanye can spew his bile to an audience of one,

Do the same thing to Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, and Donald Trump.

Make sure that bigots, racists, antisemites, and the rest of the anti-anybody who’s not them crowd gets the same treatment.

They can say whatever they want whenever they want.

But no one is obligated to hold the microphone while they say it.