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Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

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Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

#21
This interview was the final straw for me where I came to the conclusion that calls for Kanye to be de-platformed, at least temporarily are reasonable and necessary. If not for the victims of his comments but for himself. I don't want to go all armchair psychologist on this but I think spiralling is an apt word here.

FYI: I didn't make it through even 50% of the podcast because of the sheer incoherence on Kanye's part.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

#22
post #7

Even though I've enjoyed a lot of the Lex interviews in the past, I think this is really exploitative. A man with bipolar disorder is having a major manic episode and everybody is shoving microphones in front of him and getting upset when what he says sounds crazy.

As a casual listener of Lex's podcasts, my position is now to ignore him unless a good reason for this guest right now can be made clear. I can imagine Lex himself talking about openness and diversity etc but this just reeks of opportunism.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

#25
post #22
post #7

Even though I've enjoyed a lot of the Lex interviews in the past, I think this is really exploitative. A man with bipolar disorder is having a major manic episode and everybody is shoving microphones in front of him and getting upset when what he says sounds crazy.

As a casual listener of Lex's podcasts, my position is now to ignore him unless a good reason for this guest right now can be made clear. I can imagine Lex himself talking about openness and diversity etc but this just reeks of opportunism.

That’s what it is.

Lex comments that he doesn’t care about the “clickbait” and that he likes Kayne as an artist, but he spends 85+% of the interview talking about the famous Kayne tweet. It’s nothing more than cashing a check on the back of a man who is suffering a public mental breakdown.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

#26
post #7

Even though I've enjoyed a lot of the Lex interviews in the past, I think this is really exploitative. A man with bipolar disorder is having a major manic episode and everybody is shoving microphones in front of him and getting upset when what he says sounds crazy.

I've listened to it and I have the opposite opinion. Lex is the one interviewer in this episode who has treated Kanye like a human being and not like a click generator.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

#27
I could only handle the first minute of the Holocaust discussion because Kanye was just unhinged - African Americans is not a lost tribe and Planned Parenthood can in no way be compared to genocide.

Lex wrongly assumes you can reason with and even find value in the rantings of somebody who is suffering from mental illness.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

#28
A generous take is that Kanye uses many words in atypical ways. A neutral take is that Kanye is incoherent or trying to Andy Kaufmann his way out of the consequences of his actions/speech. The interview would have shed more light if Lex would have tried to nail down some of those contradictions.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

#29
post #7

Even though I've enjoyed a lot of the Lex interviews in the past, I think this is really exploitative. A man with bipolar disorder is having a major manic episode and everybody is shoving microphones in front of him and getting upset when what he says sounds crazy.

I'm vaguely reminded of all those Charlie Sheen interviews from years ago when was self-destructing from drug abuse, and we all just laughed.

Re: Kanye 'Ye' West – Lex Fridman Podcast

#30
post #7

Even though I've enjoyed a lot of the Lex interviews in the past, I think this is really exploitative. A man with bipolar disorder is having a major manic episode and everybody is shoving microphones in front of him and getting upset when what he says sounds crazy.

He once said he has bipolar disorder. He now says things that sound crazy to me. Therefore he is having a manic episode.

The problem with this reasoning is that people can say things that sound crazy without it being a symptom of a mental disorder.

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