Kanye’s comeback - will you forgive him? Do you care?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

he apologises for his anti semitism and for his harm to the black community

i think he’s unwell but I think he’s a symbol of the terrifying rise of the far right and their ‘family values’

his music will always be legendary but I separate the art from the artist 😬🤷‍♀️

That said, I was expecting a comeback so I am not surprised. It was on my 2026 bingo card

link to apology: https://pagesix.com/2026/01/26/celebrity-news/kanye-west-apologizes-for-his-reckless-anti-semitic-comments/

There is no need to be patronising.

There absolutely is when people make comments like yours.

Kanye didn't even try to use it as a get out of jail free card anyway.

Or maybe Beyoncé, I heard her videos are great 🙄
OP - absolutely not. His behaviour is abhorrent, context can help to perhaps understand it but doesn’t mean it can be excused or forgiven.

Not his target demographic, but no, he’s gone for me and my family (which does include some of his target demographic!)

Is your friend neo-freudian?

If he genuinely regrets and is going to be a better person, good for him. I don't think anyone should support him back to celebrity or whatever though! He can make your amends in quiet somewhere if he really means it. Which I'm sure he won't, because I'm sure he doesn't!

Why should he?
He had serious mental health issues and so he should hide away in shame and engage in self-flagellation for ever more now?

I genuinely think that attitudes like those to mentally ill people and their actions while having episodes is going to end up being a big conversation in society in future and something to apologise about, it's so wrong.

You are clearly not understanding the scale of the things he said

I had a breakdown a couple of years ago that b I'm still recovering from with treatment. At my worst point and not thinking at all clearly I said some out of line things to some loved ones, and I've since apologised for it. I certainly didn't expect them to accept it though!

If I'd had gone into work telling people that I love Hitler etc, I certainly wouldn't have kept my job on the basis that I was mentally ill. And rightly so, because of the effect it would have had on people around me. And would continue to have, even if I'd apologised

if katie price started spouting some racist shit, i think that’d be it for me

I know exactly what he said. I watched most of the interviews etc.

That's fine if you didn't expect it, I've forgiven people for some awful things they've said when they were struggling, even though they weren't at breakdown level, even though some of it had a bad impact on me because I was struggling even more than they were at the time.

There is just so much ignorance and people holding what people did when they were unwell against them even though the behaviour was a symptom of the illness.

People will say well he should have taken his meds, but again not taking the meds is a behavioural consequence that arises from the illness, it's not the person.

Some people with dementia start displaying sexually inappropriate behaviour and I don't see people saying 'dementia is no excuse', they just accept it's the dementia', but if it's bipolar or psychosis or even when people are legally insane there's no such understanding among a large amount of people. It's just ignorance.

What if you had Tourette's and starting shouting you loved Hitler?

You'd get to keep your job then even though it might impact people.

The impact probably wouldn't be as bad though because there is more acceptance when it's Tourette's, but when it's bipolar, because of the ignorance, people just want to push aside the illness and tell themselves and others that it's the person not the illness, and that they could control it but instead they're choosing to cause harm.

My Dad had severe bipolar and I feel the same. To judge someone who is in the middle of a psychotic episode just shows ignorance. I would hope those people never have to see someone they love behave in a way they would never forgive themselves for. It’s really triggering for me and brings back all the times I had to fight for my dad’s privacy, dignity, understanding, educate others, etc etc. I guess because it’s a celebrity it comes with a certain ‘right to judge’ maybe people could use it as a learning opportunity or donate to a mental health charity. Because it’s just really bloody sad that he lives with this SMI. I just really feel for his children that his illness plays out so publicly.

He's an idiot and a bigot who made some decent music when he was younger.
I think it's perfectly possible to separate the two.

I agree he is sick but he's also powerful and exploitative. I also wouldn't forgive the people who should say no to him.
He seems like dick as well as being mentally ill.

Yup. I've worked in mental health and there are lovely people with MH problems and there are dickheads with MH problems.

People with MH issues are no different to anyone else- some of them are decent people and some of them are horrible and selfish. Kanye is the latter in my opinion.

I, too, think his mental illness is genuine. However, he’s filled with hate against Jews and has caused real harm to the Jewish community by fuelling antisemitism. If he’d done similar things against any other ethnic minority he’d be permanently cancelled.

Golddigger is a brilliant song - among many others of his I like - but I can’t bring myself to even allow him the streaming royalties from me listening to him.

Parading his kink with his wife is beyond the bounds of acceptability too. He’s not a nice or good person. If only actions had consequences but it seems some are willing to forgive the unforgivable. Unfortunately.

He showed up at Diddys court case to support him and has called the women liars.
He is a piece of shit.

There you go again. Guess you are a fan of that POS. I have a DP and a DGS both with severe mental ill health as well as a mother who was in and out of mental institutions so don't @ me.

Well said!

He’s an appalling human being. He just wanted to get on the alt-right grift and came out with the most disgusting things imaginable to win him over the MAGA/redpill/ethnonationalist crowd. Songs praising Hitler, merchandise with swastikas on, wearing KKK hoodies and memorabilia, racist slurs and lyrics, stating he wanted to kill all Jews and black people etc, appalling treatment, oversexualisation and exploitation of his children, ex, current partner, friends and others in the industry.

He’s psychotic, a degenerate and disgusting. It’s not a case that he “went to far” and an apology can redeem himself. It’s not like he said a stupid comment and can go on an apology tour, he tried to both initiate and capitalise on a race war. He revelled in the fact that he was committing abhorrent racism as part of the grift.

The article highlights how many awful things he’s done and this isn’t even half of it.

I don’t doubt he has some sort of mental illness but to blame it on that is ridiculous and pathetic. He knew exactly what he was doing and initiating over the last half a decade or so.

I saw Kanye some years before he married Kim. He performed his music and then went on a 45 minute rant about anything and everything. It was clear that he was not well. It was very odd (this was in the news and is on YouTube I believe)

I have always loved his music, he is a fantastic live performer but he does share some terrible views.

Wasn't it Kanye West that walked into the road sign when he was having a go at the photographers? That was bloody funny. What a dickhead.

Late MIL had bipolar 1

Complete with mania, delusions and fixations.

Thankfully she didn’t have the resources to attract anything like as many people who would seek to exploit and encourage her delusions. There were some. But no media to follow the whole sorry, knackering saga, thank God.

I don’t know anything about his music, too old.

But I wish people would focus on the lack of capacity friends & family have when it come to curtailing the worst aspects of mania/delusions, the lack of help there is for a a very unwell person who thinks they are fine and the extent to which predatory types are attracted to them.

Thanks @CrispySquid you are absolutely spot on.