Politicians, celebrities, influencers, religious organizations, even banks, are working together to punish Kanye in a show of unified condemnation of his “message” (aka, involuntary episode from a brain disorder). The size of this viral condemnation cannot be overstated — this is global. It’s on the news, the television, the podcasts, all kinds of publications, and all social media platforms… We are talking about a reaction here that easily eclipses global responses to many actual material tragedies, conflicts, mass death events, take your pick of them. This is nothing more than the form ableist attacks on people with psychotic disorders take: the extreme hyper visibility, the mass humiliation, the drive to take away our support systems and resources, the transformation of our deadly brain disorder into a spectacle.
They are doing to Kanye what society does to all people with psychotic disorders: punish us for our symptoms, blame us for our brain disorder, humiliate us, bully us cruelly for years on end, take away everything we have, and push us to the margins of society. Of course, this makes everything incalculably worse for us: it is the social rejection and abuse and loss of support and entire lives and careers built over decades, that drives us to the worst possible outcomes. As a fellow bipolar one, I am very concerned that Kanye will not survive this. 20% of us kill ourselves, and shit like this is a big reason why.