Greg Wycliffe - Why I Love Kanye West

00:00:00.000 Ah, I can explain. Hear me out before you go canceling me. Make sure you watch till the end,

00:00:06.480 at least, if you're going to slander my name. Kanye's been up to some activity, okay? And

00:00:12.680 I feel everyone is reacting to this in the most predictable, sort of obvious and safe way.

00:00:19.400 Kanye West is totally uninsane. Is this another manic episode? Wow, this guy has truly lost it.

00:00:26.160 It's almost like people are using this opportunity to make it about themselves and how virtuous and how

00:00:32.460 not crazy they are. I condemn the current thing. Do you disagree with what Kanye said? Oh my God,

00:00:41.400 that is so amazing of you. That is honestly so inspiring. It's like everyone is writing this

00:00:48.600 obligatory LinkedIn post. I was watching the Super Bowl and I saw what Kanye tweeted and

00:00:55.800 I'm sorry. I really, as a professional, are people not sick of this yet? You know,

00:01:01.440 maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I'm giving him too much artistic license with his tweets.

00:01:05.940 Or maybe when people say things and talk shit, maybe we shouldn't take it so seriously.

00:01:13.120 Maybe we should be more concerned about, oh geez, horrific actions, criminal, immoral behavior,

00:01:21.520 reprehensible acts, bad acts, and not so much the bad words. Kanye saying, I love Hitler, free puff, 0.76

00:01:30.920 or here's some porn I like, or I hit women. Maybe spouting off and saying wild shit actually isn't

00:01:38.220 that harmful. Are you serious, Greg? He says that he literally beats women. Did you know that Chris

00:01:42.960 Brown has beaten over 12 different women? Chris Brown's cool. He can sing and dance, right? Nobody cares

00:01:48.920 about the actual beating of women. This is my whole point. We focus more on the bad words and not the

00:01:55.320 bad actions. Personally, I think there is a profound lesson in all of this. And whether yay was intentional

00:02:01.000 with this or not, whether God is working through yay or not, I personally had a blast reading his tweets

00:02:08.780 because I found them funny, horrifying, shocking, confusing, insightful, offensive. This sounds like

00:02:17.180 a human being with all of their flaws, but everyone else says, oh boy, that Kanye, that's not good for

00:02:25.220 his social credit score. That's not going to be good for his public relations. How is he going to explain

00:02:31.740 this to the Jewish community or to women or his fans? Everyone has become a PR person. And I think

00:02:39.580 yay's point in a nutshell is I don't give a fuck about any of that. I am an American and I have free

00:02:49.460 speech and I'm going to use it. We live in a democracy. We live in a free country. These terms

00:02:56.480 get thrown around a lot by politicians and news pundits. And I feel like they don't even really know

00:03:02.680 what it means anymore. When Trump contested the election results in 2020, that was a threat to

00:03:08.540 democracy. Then when he gets elected in 2024, that's a threat to democracy. The cornerstone of a free

00:03:15.480 democratic society is free speech. The first amendment, we know this. And from where I'm standing,

00:03:20.680 yay, formerly known as Kanye West is the only person fully exercising his first amendment rights

00:03:28.040 and being one of the most popular superstars alive on the planet right now makes his recent Twitter

00:03:34.540 storm or ex posts very entertaining and culturally important. I live in Canada and our free speech has

00:03:42.080 been under threat here with the bill that they were trying to pass where you could be arrested

00:03:46.140 for intensely disliking something. In this bill, they said that you could go on house arrest if somebody

00:03:52.820 thinks that you might say something hateful. This was tabled. This was in its second reading in the

00:03:59.140 Canadian parliament. I'm an artist myself. I'm also interested in politics. I was concerned about

00:04:04.000 this. So I started a campaign, savefreespeech.ca. And I'm not here to talk about that, but I noticed

00:04:09.980 how the fight for free speech only happens when things get uncomfortable. You know, we're not fighting

00:04:16.140 about, ooh, is it Kendrick or Drake? Oh, do you like ice cream or do you like pizza? No, it happens when

00:04:22.440 we're talking about Israel, Palestine. Is this, are these people genocidal? Are those people genocidal?

00:04:27.500 Are we allowed to dehumanize people? That person's allowed. Why isn't that person? That is where the

00:04:31.920 fight for free speech happens, not in some safe space. The other thing I noticed while doing this

00:04:36.880 campaign is there are so many people who do not even use their free speech. They are afraid for various

00:04:45.140 reasons. Maybe it's their social credit score, their public relations, their job. What will people think?

00:04:51.000 And I think it's so funny because growing up, wasn't the generic wisdom from our parents?

00:04:56.000 Don't worry about what other people think. Just be yourself. Speak your mind. Tell the truth.

00:05:01.600 And now in the age of social media, political correctness, LinkedIn, well, you can't say that.

00:05:06.780 You can't say this. I think over the course of the last decade with the rise and normalization

00:05:11.600 of smartphones, this has been baked into our psyches. And I do not think it's a good thing. I think it's

00:05:17.380 actually anti-human. We're taking on our perfect narcissistic social media avatars and it's not

00:05:24.900 healthy. So when I saw a yay go on this Twitter storm or a blitzkrieg of tweets, if you will, 0.89

00:05:31.580 I found it very refreshing. Someone actually just speaking their mind, actually not giving a fuck and

00:05:37.960 actually upholding what it's supposed to mean to live in a free democratic society.

00:05:43.500 It actually gave me a nostalgia trip. It reminded me, I think it was even public school or high

00:05:48.620 school, late nights when I'm up talking all sorts of bullshit with my friends before the internet,

00:05:54.920 before everything was recorded, when it was just fun to say offensive stuff and laugh at it.

00:06:01.140 And as an art piece, there was something so human about these tweets from yay. It was almost like,

00:06:07.480 you ever seen like a belligerent drunk guy and it's, it's totally offensive and just obscene,

00:06:13.980 but there's almost like this righteous truth to it. You know, like, Oh, I'll fuck you. I don't even

00:06:19.940 care. All these people want to fuck me. It's fine. You know, you guys aren't even a hot couple.

00:06:25.120 Anyway, you guys are probably going to get divorced. It's shocking, offensive. There's something

00:06:30.840 endearing and authentic about it. Sometimes there's truth in it. Sometimes not. Sometimes it's absurd.

00:06:37.020 Other times it might be insightful. I find it very human because it's perfectly flawed.

00:06:43.740 I can't believe you're saying this. It's offensive. He, he hates Jewish people. He hates women. He

00:06:48.900 posted porn. Even if all of this stuff is true and he genuinely does feel all of these things,

00:06:54.380 as long as he's not explicitly inciting violence against a specific group or person, it's totally

00:07:00.260 legal to say whatever wild shit he did, whatever was on his mind. And also this idea that if I enjoyed

00:07:06.880 the show, if I laughed at those tweets, if I watched a rich celebrity say all sorts of wild

00:07:12.680 controversial shit and enjoyed it now, now I must agree with all of it. And I'm a piece of shit as

00:07:19.060 well. This is like watching that show about Jeffrey Dahmer. And then if you enjoyed it, it's like,

00:07:24.480 well, you must love raping and killing gay people and eating them alive. That's how insane it is. 0.99

00:07:30.180 And this is what I mean when I say like, maybe we should actually just not take what people say

00:07:34.880 so seriously. Like it's the end of the fucking world. After all, did they kill anybody? No,

00:07:40.800 they were just talking shit. Yeah. Maybe it's actually not that big a fucking deal.

00:07:44.620 You're being so insensitive right now. I can't believe you're saying this.

00:07:47.860 Can, can we log off of LinkedIn, please? Are we all just cancel culture fags now? Are we going to, 0.96

00:07:54.980 yikes, yikes, yikes. Like, are we going to run out of yikes? I'm really like, it's, it's so exhausting

00:08:01.840 and, and who is actually enjoying this? Or is it people just like maintaining their social media

00:08:08.580 presence and their LinkedIn reputation? Everyone is acting like hall monitors, like little goody two

00:08:15.900 shoes, tattletales. We're sucking the fun and joy out of everything. Can we all just relax? Can we just

00:08:22.720 be flawed human beings again? Are we allowed to have even fun anymore or talk about hypotheticals

00:08:28.340 or tell a joke? A joke is a hypothetical guys. You're aware of this. You heard of this. It's like

00:08:33.980 a story. It's like, it's not real. It's like, Hey, maybe I'm just saying, I'm just throwing this out

00:08:37.840 into the ether and whether yay meant this or not. I feel that this is the point that was being made

00:08:44.020 about cancel culture and this LinkedIn politically correct world that we now live in. Does it have to

00:08:51.040 be a terminal punishment and eternal condemnation of someone's entire character forever? Because

00:08:57.300 they said something fucked up once you're officially a bad person forever. Now, none of the good deeds

00:09:04.120 count. You get no forgiveness. You will never go to heaven. Even if you feed the homeless for decades

00:09:09.220 after you said the N word, Nope, sorry. You will always be a piece of shit because this hyper fixed

00:09:16.920 judgmental mindset is exactly what cancel culture and political correctness thrives off of. And I

00:09:24.920 don't think people actually like it. I think people would much prefer, uh, like the nineties and the

00:09:30.860 early two thousands when things were just way more chill and people didn't take everything so

00:09:35.500 serious. Like it's the end of the world. And really the only thing keeping it alive are us lemmings who

00:09:41.940 have internalized this anti-human attitude about our perfect polished to PC avatars on social media.

00:09:49.020 And of course, some people will say he just looks crazy though. He comes across as disrespectful and

00:09:54.420 mean. Okay. And he's a billionaire. You know, what, what am I, are you going to do about it? That's your

00:10:02.960 right to feel that way. You're allowed to react any way that you want. That's one of the cool things

00:10:09.960 about democracy and freedom of speech. You also have the freedom to respond in any way you'd like

00:10:16.140 that isn't violent. Of course. What's notable though, is like I said at the start, don't you

00:10:21.100 think it's weird that the popular sentiment has been a wholesale condemnation? Well, you can't do

00:10:26.460 that. I can't believe that. I can't keep defending this guy. And also if you're a free market guy,

00:10:31.220 the market gets to respond to what, to what yay says. If people don't like Kanye, they can unfollow.

00:10:37.360 If they don't like what he says, they don't have to buy a swastika t-shirt. So what's the

00:10:42.860 problem? I mean, he lost a billion dollars in his net worth back in 2022 for doing a similar

00:10:48.740 Twitter tirade about going death con three on Jewish people. He knows full well, the freedoms

00:10:55.960 others have to vote with their dollar, to stop being a fan or for managers and owners to cut ties

00:11:01.880 with him. Now I'm not, I'm not going to say the background of, of the managers and owners who cut

00:11:07.880 ties. They were, but the reason I loved it is Jay is a free man speaking. And that is very rare to see

00:11:18.260 nowadays. And whether yay knows it or not, whether it was intentional or not by going after these sacred

00:11:24.540 cows and kicking every hornet's nest, he can see and touching everything in the museum that says,

00:11:30.120 don't touch this and diving head first into the taboo. He's actually revealing a lot about the

00:11:36.520 culture we live in. He's exposing how soft it is, how fearful it is. That's on the left and the right

00:11:44.540 Jew, non-Jew, Christian, Muslim, atheist. He offended everybody. His tirade helps show how much red tape

00:11:52.120 there really is. How owned we all are, how programmed we all are to be passive, or as he would

00:11:58.680 say, how pussy people have become. With everything being recorded now on the internet, the significant 0.95

00:12:04.120 effect of canceled culture, political correctness over the past 10 years, even if you don't work in

00:12:09.440 an office, even if you're not in HR for IBM, we all live, we're all trapped in this LinkedIn culture.

00:12:17.180 You know this trite, painfully polished LinkedIn posts, like it's a work email, like we work in human

00:12:24.460 resources or public relations. That's what we're all becoming. And we all use AI to write them now,

00:12:30.300 don't we? And in the corporate world, you're only allowed to joke about certain safe topics. Hey guys,

00:12:35.740 we love the relaxed work environment. We want you to be yourself. But if you fucking say anything,

00:12:41.500 you will be fired or disciplined. But you can, hey guys, totally be yourself, okay? This is totally

00:12:49.060 human and normal. Everyone's going to act like this now. Thank you for being a human being. You have to

00:12:56.720 toe the line at work or in a lot of social circles. And only when you're in private can you really speak

00:13:04.980 your mind? As a reminder, that's like an authoritarian state where you can only speak

00:13:11.360 your mind safely at home, huddled around the dinner table and never in a public square like Twitter.

00:13:16.560 Yeah, that's not a free democratic society. That's certainly not America. How long has this been the

00:13:23.760 case across society? As if we all have to be a respectful professional, make sure we don't hurt the

00:13:28.820 sensibilities of anyone in the workplace. Of course, this doesn't apply to blue collar workers. We all know 0.67

00:13:33.860 this. But we have to constantly be working our public relations on how we present and express

00:13:39.700 ourselves to the rest of society. And as someone who makes content online, this is real, unfortunately.

00:13:46.940 You cannot escape it. People will always hyperanalyze and criticize and try to cancel you.

00:13:52.740 But what's been the result? Adding social media everywhere, having this absurd expectation of

00:13:57.820 political correctness where we can't offend anybody. Is this how human beings are supposed to

00:14:03.760 live to not express their frustrations fully, to not express their anger, happiness, joy, sadness,

00:14:10.840 elation for better or for worse? You know that someone's always going to get offended, right?

00:14:16.300 Like no matter what you say or do, someone will always find a way to be offended. None of this is

00:14:20.800 natural. And it leads to not just censoring our words, but eventually our thoughts. And we stop being

00:14:27.760 able to think clearly or speak with any amount of articulation. This is the LinkedIn culture.

00:14:35.560 I don't think it's a good thing. I mean, look around. Are things getting better? Rising suicide

00:14:41.120 rates, homelessness, crime, stupidity, obesity, STIs, divorce rate, OnlyFans, and porn usage at an all-time

00:14:47.880 high, depression at an all-time high. Are we afraid to speak out on these problems? Or maybe the people

00:14:54.820 speaking out on these problems are actually too offensive. Oh, they're racist. They're sexist.

00:14:59.520 That's not respectful towards sex workers or homosexuals or women or trans people. You see 1.00

00:15:05.260 how this LinkedIn culture actually prevents us from even talking about the problem anymore,

00:15:10.260 let alone solving it. If you're faced with a messy room, you're Asmongold, and there's trash 1.00

00:15:16.100 everywhere, you're going to get your hands dirty. Having political correctness there is like having some

00:15:22.140 little goody two-shoes marking you. Okay, well, you have to clean it up, but don't get your hands

00:15:28.040 dirty. I don't want to smell bad. Make sure that you don't sweat either. That would be bad. It's

00:15:34.560 completely unrealistic, and it prevents us from even tackling the fucking mess in front of us. 0.90

00:15:40.340 And there is a simple explanation for all of this. There is no balance anymore. Everything is

00:15:45.680 too feminine. We have successfully vilified masculinity. And for a quick summary, feminine 0.98

00:15:52.280 is more likely to obey, to be passive. They want everyone to get along. They prioritize social order

00:15:59.040 above all things. They are emotional in their feelings. The masculine is more aggressive,

00:16:04.000 more likely to defy, be bold, go against the norms, and say what needs to be said, offend people,

00:16:09.360 and to take action. When we vilify masculinity, we have no balance, and we are completely demonizing

00:16:16.920 half of who we are. Not just men versus women, but the yin and yang within ourselves. And was there

00:16:23.700 anything at all feminine about Ye's tirade on Twitter? No, it was like a cartoonish, absurd

00:16:31.800 exaggeration of the masculine. That's my bitch. I own her. Everybody wants to fuck me. The people 1.00

00:16:40.380 who work for me are slaves. Suck my nigger cock. Like, this guy doesn't give a fuck. I am a god.

00:16:50.280 I am a Nazi. I don't care. One could say that Ye's Twitter storm was the biggest display of masculinity

00:16:56.860 we've seen probably since Trump in 2016, to be honest. And folks, let's not be naive here.

00:17:03.840 The world is a place full of manipulative, greedy warmongers who are warring for influence, power,

00:17:11.280 and resources. If you are in power, do you want the lemmings? Do you want the peasants or your potential 0.94

00:17:17.340 political adversaries acting masculine, cultivating masculinity? No, you want them feminized. 1.00

00:17:23.640 You want them passive. You want them accepting whatever social order gets enforced and imposed

00:17:28.840 upon them. And when you think of it this way, it becomes kind of obvious what the purpose of

00:17:33.600 political correctness is. Do you really think political correctness is to protect people's

00:17:38.880 feelings? We can now see political correctness brought upon diversity, equity, inclusion,

00:17:45.300 racial grievance, revenge politics that encourages people to be guilty about who they are or be coached

00:17:51.340 to be bigger pussies or embrace a total victimhood mindset and worldview. Ironically, it makes people 0.76

00:17:58.480 more hateful and divisive. But because of political correctness, we have a political climate where we

00:18:03.700 can't even agree to disagree anymore. And it's never been more polarized and uncomfortable. Because

00:18:09.940 instead of our conversations being in the physical world about actions, cause and effects,

00:18:16.260 objective things, it's in this emotional world of feelings that change on a whim. It's all subjective.

00:18:22.520 It's endlessly trivial. They got my pronouns wrong. I'm offended as a woman. Did someone die?

00:18:30.240 Was a crime committed? Oh, you had an uncomfortable feeling one time and now we all need to hear about

00:18:36.800 it. No wonder we haven't gotten around to getting anything done. We're sitting around navel gazing about

00:18:42.760 hurt feelings. Like Ye said, pussies. And sure, another part is that we have a very fragmented 0.96

00:18:48.960 way of experiencing life through our bite-sized pieces of information instantly on our phones,

00:18:53.920 the rage bait incentive for clicks that naturally groups people into opposing echo chambers

00:18:58.940 that hate each other. But let's focus here. Who is the enemy? It used to be clear that killers,

00:19:07.660 criminals, rapists, bad, immoral actions, these were the things that we would all agree on.

00:19:12.740 Left and right. We all frowned upon the bad actions. Disgusting. No matter who you are.

00:19:18.840 But now it's, did you see what Kanye West said on Twitter? Did you see the hand gesture that Elon

00:19:25.100 Musk made? Did you hear the racist thing the guy said at the water cooler? We are vilifying people

00:19:30.420 for bad words. We are vilifying people who are using their First Amendment rights. And you know why

00:19:37.320 we're doing that? Because we're bored. And condemning someone for what they say is easy. And we've

00:19:44.560 convinced ourselves that we are accomplishing something when we condemn someone for saying

00:19:49.320 bad words. But it actually doesn't do anything other than, like I said at the beginning, making it

00:19:56.280 all about you and how virtuous you are. Wow, you did so much to condemn the bad words. Meanwhile,

00:20:04.440 the raping, the killing, the murdering, the high level crime goes on. It's so disgusting. When

00:20:11.240 there's a mass shooting, people are more quick to see what the politics were of the shooter. Did

00:20:16.380 they write a manifesto and immediately use it as a political football? As opposed to having an ongoing

00:20:22.740 conversation about, wow, how did this person get to such a sad point of isolation where maybe they

00:20:28.200 felt like they couldn't express themselves freely to anyone by fear of being condemned by virtuous

00:20:33.820 cunts on LinkedIn? So instead, they started to write a manifesto. By the way, if you are thinking 0.94

00:20:41.760 about doing something like that, maybe you should write your manifesto on LinkedIn. Kidding,

00:20:45.040 of course. Do I have to let you know it's a joke? Anyway, do you think political correctness

00:20:49.660 is about protecting feelings? Or is political correctness a ploy to encourage people to be

00:20:55.580 passive, feminine? Don't be too aggressive to offend anybody. Don't be masculine in your thinking.

00:21:01.540 Don't be courageous. Don't be brave. No roughhousing. Just bottle everything up. Shut the fuck up.

00:21:07.480 Don't get mad. Don't be too happy in the wrong way. Don't think this way. Don't think that way.

00:21:12.780 And although they say that the woke is dying, Ye's tweets and the reaction to him has proven that it is

00:21:20.880 not at all. His website got shut down off of Shopify. We still live in this LinkedIn culture

00:21:28.540 of political correctness. You better always be respectful and professional and not offend anyone's

00:21:33.800 sensibilities. So we're less compliant towards the crazy trannies who want to indoctrinate kids, 1.00

00:21:40.640 but we're still right there on the LinkedIn culture. Still politically correct as ever. Still

00:21:47.020 pretty fucking woke if you ask me. And I'm sure the clever Redditors watching this will say,

00:21:52.180 there's no need to be an asshole though. Do you have to defend this asshole? You can still get your

00:21:57.340 point across while being respectful and professional, man. You don't have to say it that way. Do you

00:22:02.500 remember during COVID lockdowns where being told to wear a mask for your safety, getting an injection

00:22:09.360 for your safety? You can't get on a plane or a train for your safety. You can't leave the country.

00:22:15.800 You're putting everyone in danger. They dehumanized, especially in Canada, they dehumanized anyone who

00:22:23.160 was unvaccinated. They wanted to tax them. Sometimes unvaccinated people still don't get organ

00:22:28.900 transplants and die. But don't worry because they were nice and polite and they've been nice and polite. 1.00

00:22:36.620 They've been respectful, right? While dehumanizing people to the point of death.

00:22:42.520 Isn't that nice? Once again, we care more about the good words than the evil actions.

00:22:49.600 We don't care about the evil actions anymore. Do we tolerate these people? That's what Justin

00:22:54.740 Trudeau said about the unvaccinated. It's almost like political correctness is used by people who do 0.99

00:23:01.140 evil actions as a way to attack and discredit their critics by saying, Hey, look, look at those

00:23:07.340 people saying the bad words. Those are the bad people. The ones using their first amendment rights,

00:23:13.140 the ones calling us evil. Those are the bad people. And you know who else is really nice and polite and

00:23:19.440 respectful? Ben Shapiro, Gad Saad, Ezra Levant, all of these Jewish conservative influencers who have

00:23:26.180 basically justified killing and displacing Palestinian women and children, but they were

00:23:32.180 so respectable and professional and nice in the way they said it. Isn't that great? They made it in

00:23:38.880 a LinkedIn post. Hey guys, we're annexing Gaza. Smiley face. So if it's told in a nice way, no one cares 0.89

00:23:47.480 about the bad actions. It gets justified because it was told in a respectable, professional way.

00:23:52.560 And anyone disagreeing, well, they are anti-Semites. They're the ones that hate and they're the ones

00:23:58.020 that want to kill. Pay no attention to the actual killing going on. And if this is making you feel

00:24:03.080 uncomfortable, good. If you're offended, great. You know, people are still way too uptight. And if we

00:24:09.500 want society to actually heal and grow and get better, the pearl clutching needs to stop. This era

00:24:18.100 needs to actually end. I'm tired of seeing all these MAGA conservatives parade around like the woke is

00:24:26.380 over. No, political correctness came first and that's never been stronger and more powerful. And

00:24:32.960 Ye has helped prove that with his shit storm. But getting rid of political correctness is not going

00:24:38.060 to be easy, folks. People cling to it because it gives them power. I am part of an oppressed group.

00:24:44.160 I will use emotions and hurt feelings as a weapon. Don't you dare take that weapon away from me.

00:24:49.640 There's podcasts, book series, all dedicated to this. And I might add, what exactly are the positives

00:24:57.320 from podcasts like this? Is it not like bored, upper middle class, white women stewing in their 1.00

00:25:03.260 own self-indulgent emotional soup? What good has come of any of this other than a booming business

00:25:10.300 for therapists in Brooklyn and big pharma selling lots of antidepressants? Can we instead focus our

00:25:17.080 moral condemnation on actual real criminals and actual bad evil behavior, please, instead of the

00:25:24.660 hurt feelings? It's pretty fucking basic, but it's going to be tough. It's happening at every level of

00:25:29.840 society, especially in the corporate world. But to put it in perspective, I wonder how many

00:25:34.340 rapes happened during Ye's Twitter spree. I wonder how many black men were shot in Chicago

00:25:42.260 during those three days of Ye tweeting on Twitter. Like, don't you think it's funny that a white person 0.57

00:25:48.140 complaining about crime gets condemned more than the actual crime? Do we want to live in a world where

00:25:55.120 everything you publicly say has to pass the sniff test of being posted to your public LinkedIn profile

00:26:01.600 or fit in a work email? Or do you want to live in a world where Ye can say Hitler was so fresh? 0.66

00:26:10.160 And look, I'm all for living in a polite and civilized society, but I also, I don't want to work

00:26:15.720 with robots. You know, human beings are ugly. They smell, they have flaws. And with social media and

00:26:21.640 political correctness, we're in denial of that. We've all been trying to hide and it's making us

00:26:27.500 depressed, hateful and distrusting of one another, stupider. And we are afraid to speak and be

00:26:35.260 ourselves. It's anti-human. And I find it so ironic because this sentiments of like, yikes, Kanye,

00:26:42.120 usually comes from people who appreciate art and the fallibility and tragedy, redemption,

00:26:48.760 and the many faces of the human condition and how beautiful the ups and downs are.

00:26:53.980 But for some reason, when it delves into the area of a political topic, something politically

00:26:59.580 incorrect, now we're all uncomfortable and it's controversial. All of a sudden there's all these

00:27:04.380 alarm bells and we need to enforce the political correctness rules because we're all on fucking 0.88

00:27:10.160 LinkedIn. Nope. Sorry. We're not beautiful humans anymore. We're actually just employees.

00:27:16.440 And your reputation matters a lot. This isn't cute. This isn't politically correct. No compassion for

00:27:23.380 you, bro. That's a yikes from me, guy. Thank you for the gold, kind stranger. Sure. I'll appreciate

00:27:29.580 Nicki Minaj objectifying herself as a wet ass pussy in this artistic song empowering woman. But when 1.00

00:27:36.980 Kanye objectifies someone on the red carpet, well, that's just too far. Is he crazy? Have you guys seen

00:27:44.780 these fucking music videos? Are you serious? So with this capitulation and submission to political

00:27:50.320 correctness and this obsession with social media over the past couple of decades, is it really a

00:27:55.560 surprise that we've experienced such cultural decay? We're all self-centered narcissists obsessed

00:28:02.600 with virtue signaling in one way or another. We're cooked. Canada is one of the most woke countries and

00:28:09.240 we are basically leaderless right now. We are like the most feminine slaves to political correctness 1.00

00:28:14.900 and there is not a masculine leader in sight and we are about to be enveloped by America. So that's a

00:28:21.260 pretty great example of where this shit leads. What happens when you always act feminine and capitulate 0.97

00:28:27.040 to political correctness? Oh, you get raped by foreign interference in corporate interests.

00:28:32.260 Hi, Justin Trudeau. Thanks, political correctness. So glad we didn't offend anybody. And this is why I love

00:28:39.280 yay. In a three-day Twitter storm, he's helped expose all of this, the weakness of our pathetic,

00:28:46.420 politically correct LinkedIn society. He's like, hey, this is what you should be allowed to do in a

00:28:52.940 free democracy if you're not a slave to a corporation or a political agenda or some bullshit social

00:28:59.660 convention. I should clarify, I'm not here to say, I don't care if you're in the corporate world,

00:29:04.980 you need to post the n-word on LinkedIn right now. That's democracy. I'm not saying that. But what I 0.95

00:29:11.240 am saying is if yay can be this outspoken, this radically masculine to speak his mind, even if it's

00:29:20.800 so ugly and even detestable, maybe you can speak up for yourself more too. Maybe you can be a tiny bit

00:29:30.720 more honest with yourself. Maybe you can have a tiny bit more bravery to actually say what's on your

00:29:36.260 mind. Because that is what we're supposed to be able to do in a free democratic society.

00:29:44.880 And to me, that is what yay is trying to remind all of us about what America is really about.

00:29:52.480 The best comedians, the best cultural entertainers, it's because of that foundation

00:29:57.700 of the first amendment. And yay is one of the only people who's fully using it and testing the

00:30:04.280 limits. Because a lot of what he's been doing would land him in jail in Germany, in Australia,

00:30:10.140 especially with the swastika stuff. Well, and what about that swastika stuff, Greg?

00:30:14.140 You're justifying hatred against Jews. I actually think Michael Knowles said this best. 1.00

00:30:21.060 Frankly, I think that the Hitler tweets are more or less just a way to shock because to say,

00:30:25.960 I love Hitler as he did on Alex Jones, look, maybe he just truly hates the Jews. That might be part of 0.73

00:30:30.740 it. But part of it also is that in the modern mythos, Hitler is understood as the embodiment

00:30:35.500 of evil. So the most shocking thing you can possibly say is I love Hitler. Interesting though, 0.89

00:30:39.860 because back in the day, the most shocking thing you could say that would be morally reprehensible

00:30:44.020 would be say, I don't believe in Jesus Christ. I think Jesus is fake. And now that's kind of like

00:30:51.900 the standard, like not believing in God, that's like totally Reddit tier norm. Everybody is kind

00:30:58.500 of there in this secular society. There are a number of other dictators who have killed millions

00:31:03.460 and millions of people like Hitler. But for whatever reason, Hitler's swastika, that just happens to have

00:31:09.860 the monopoly on what is the most evil. I'll save that for another video, but it's interesting

00:31:16.340 nonetheless. And guys, I'm not here to say, yeah, hate is good. We should hate each other more.

00:31:20.780 Yeah, I like when people's feelings are hurt. But I am saying we need to stop taking what people say

00:31:28.960 so, so deathly seriously. As I said at the beginning, there are Western countries that are

00:31:34.880 losing their free speech. And if you look at history, censorship has never led to anything good.

00:31:41.960 And back to the more human note. Yes, the internet is forever. But when we internalize that,

00:31:48.220 we might be too afraid to even speak our minds to begin with. And where does that lead?

00:31:55.500 Ye did delete his Twitter in the end. He logged off and deleted his account. And you can only find

00:32:00.520 screenshots now, which I think is kind of representative of our oral culture, the spoken word,

00:32:07.540 the most basic form of human interaction. It's here and then gone in an instant, the feeling only

00:32:15.420 echoing in our heads. And as someone who really cares about art being in the world of politics,

00:32:21.440 the number of things you're allowed to say is still getting smaller on the left and on the right,

00:32:27.480 both echo chambers. And I think the takeaway from Ye's Twitter storm is why can't we speak freely

00:32:33.680 anymore? Why don't we speak freely anymore? Are we all slaves? I saw something that Nick Fuentes said

00:32:41.280 on his show that I thought was interesting. He said that this reaction has divided people

00:32:45.640 into two camps based on how they react to the Ye tweets. There's one camp of people who just want

00:32:53.480 their conditions to be improved. And there's people who really value their freedom and independence.

00:33:00.100 The first camp, they have accepted the rat race. They don't care if they're fundamentally controlled 0.95

00:33:05.160 or ruled over. They just care about their pensions and their jobs. And they just want to prosper.

00:33:09.500 Just leave me alone. Let me be obedient. Let me pay less taxes. These are the LinkedIn slaves.

00:33:15.620 They've accepted it. They just want more shekels. And then there's the people who actually care about

00:33:19.780 freedom first. Being a free human being is the most important thing to me and to these people.

00:33:26.480 They don't want to be told what to do or who you're not allowed to criticize. They don't want to be

00:33:31.980 massaged and groomed into what to think about the world. And if you haven't noticed, if it weren't for

00:33:37.860 brave, masculine people like this who value freedom, we would all become LinkedIn slaves 0.80

00:33:44.280 who only care about material goods and that's it. And then we wouldn't even have a choice to have

00:33:50.780 our freedom again because there weren't people like that. We wouldn't even have America if there

00:33:56.020 weren't people who valued freedom before everything else. And I really think that Ye with simple actions

00:34:01.760 like this is calling back and trying to bring back that American excellence and bravado of

00:34:08.500 fuck you. I'm going to speak freely. And I'm kind of jealous of that as a Canadian. We're not really

00:34:15.400 that free in Canada. It depends on who you are. If you have freedom, it depends on what your opinions

00:34:19.760 are. I'm actually making a documentary right now telling the story of some of these persecuted

00:34:24.720 Canadians who have either been thrown in jail or lost their jobs simply for their opinion

00:34:30.140 on various things like vaccine mandates or the gender ideology in schools. If you want to check

00:34:35.460 that out, you can see the fundraiser below. A trailer is going to be dropping soon. But yeah,

00:34:40.640 that's my thoughts on that. Thank you for watching. Talk to you soon. Every time I say something

00:34:45.500 that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the internet. So what are we getting all of

00:34:54.400 the rest of the time?

00:34:55.420 The rest of the time.

Greg Wycliffe - February 13, 2025

Why I Love Kanye West

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