Disliking Kanye Doesn’t Make Me a Racist

By Chris O’Shea

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It’s OK to be a white person who is frustrated by Kanye West. That might seem obvious, but the aftermath of West’s epic Twitter rant against Jimmy Kimmel necessitates it be reiterated. The feud is nothing more than the clash of two pop personalities, but it became something much bigger than that. On Twitter and elsewhere, Kimmel was labeled as being emblematic of racism in America. Ergo, white America criticizing West correlates to racism. This is not only wrong, it gives defenders of West an easy way out of a complex issue.

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