wiisagi-maiingan:

1. Mental illness CAN cause people to say and do bigoted things, especially illnesses that cause the kind of delusional and paranoid thinking that makes someone susceptible to conspiracy theories. Denying that makes it harder for people with those illnesses to accept their conditions, let alone receive support or help.
2. Kanye’s actions are not limited to rants on twitter and paying extreme amounts of money for a Super Bowl ad just to sell a shirt with a swastika shows a level of thought and planning that goes far beyond just a paranoia or delusional episode.
3. People who are not actually bigoted but who experience those kinds of episodes where they say bigoted things due to mental illness will apologize after. Kanye has never apologized and never will because he’s a bigot. Plain and simple.
4. Regardless of what is causing Kanye’s behavior (it’s bigotry and hate), his words and actions have tangible effects on Jewish people. He has far more followers on twitter than there are Jews in the entire world and what he says and does has gone a long way to emboldening antisemites in his fan base and influencing people who see him as someone to look up to.