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We Need A New Way To Talk About Kanye West

"It doesn’t look like a snarky tweet or a meme. It looks like weaving compassion and accountability together and naming what he’s going through alongside what he does," @elamin88 writes.

I’ve never been less sure that Kanye is going to be okay. For , I wrote about why the way we talk about Kanye isn't working, and why we need new language to talk about public figures living with mental illness.

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Almost none of the public writing about West properly wrestles with the weight of his personal traumas and mental health diagnosis, writes

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This is a stellar read on Kanye West and how we need better ways to talk about people who suffer from mental illness.

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"This mercy is absent from the Kanye discourse. When the internet is mocking him, it feels out of reach. And it’s easy to mistake his fans defending him for mercy, but it is not: It is permissiveness & enablement, a green light to proceed down a road even when it looks harmful."

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“We urgently need a new public language that pulls all of these threads together — a language that explains but doesn’t excuse, a language that contextualizes but doesn’t absolve”

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This is some excellent writing. It made me think too of how Marilyn Monroe would have faired in social media driven society.

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Ye fan or not, ya’ll should read this:

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"We urgently need a new public language [...] that explains but doesn’t excuse, a language that contextualizes but doesn’t absolve."

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This is one of the most thoughtful and compassionate articles I’ve read about a celebrity. Just crying a little over here, nbd.

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