Banning Kanye West Is Just This Government’s Latest Hypocrisy

Kanye West—now ‘Ye’, though British media doesn’t seem to be respecting his proper nouns—has been banned from the UK (now ‘Yookay’).

Keir Starmer, a man far more hated than Mr Ye will ever be, said:

Kanye West should never have been invited to headline Wireless. This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism. We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.

The public might wonder where this protection is when it comes to, say, a Hamas chief getting a £112,000 discount on his council house, or grooming gang ringleaders we apparently can’t deport, or Afghan migrants who rape 12-year-old girls.

But when it comes to edgy rappers who are possibly mental, we suddenly have a border. Not to mention Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern, Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, and elderly French writer Renaud Camus, who have all been denied entry due to being not ‘conducive to the public good’.

We’re supposed to believe these people are worse than the seemingly endless parade of terrorists and rapists we welcome into the country with open arms (or robotic limbs in Starmer’s case).

Starmer promises to ‘uphold our values’. The question is, to go a bit Jordan Peterson for a second, what do you mean by ‘our’, and what do you mean by ‘values’?

‘Our’ turns out to mean the political class, which despises the native population and only worries about its own survival against the escalating onslaught of reality, and ‘values’ means whatever is the ‘current thing’. This week it’s Ye, previously it was an anti-white Netflix propaganda piece called Adolescence, tomorrow it will be something equally stupid.

None of this will make the British people safer or better off in any way; it will only cause further demoralisation.

Not that I am necessarily ‘going to bat’ for Ye. Obviously he has said all kinds of wild things aimed at causing maximum offence. Though I do think it became so cartoonish as to be hard to take seriously. He somehow found a way to cram all the most offensive words into a three-word song title, which was impressive in its concision if nothing else.

Ye himself is blaming mental health in his many apologies, linking his behaviour to a frontal-lobe injury, following a car crash, that wasn’t properly diagnosed until 2023. But this seems to carry no weight with those who wish to cancel him. I have no idea if his mental health is the true cause. If it is, I can sympathise, partly due to my own fairly extensive mental health challenges, and because members of my family have taken their own lives. Although such claims are overused in a culture that rewards minor problems with BMWs, there’s no doubt the mental struggle is horrifically real, or that head injuries are linked with erratic behaviour.