{"id":27109,"date":"2009-09-15T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/15\/kanye-west-uncivil-rebel-or-ob\/"},"modified":"2009-09-15T04:46:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:46:10","slug":"kanye-west-uncivil-rebel-or-ob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/kanye-west-uncivil-rebel-or-ob\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West: Uncivil Rebel or Obnoxious Lover of Goats?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You all know who Kanye West is. Personally, I had never heard of the man until yesterday afternoon. But then, until yesterday afternoon I thought MTV was a cable television network that played music videos, so what do I know. But never mind that. We’re not here to talk about me. We’re here to talk about Kanye West…
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\nIn 2006, West appeared on the front cover of Rolling Stone as Jesus wearing a crown of thorns. I’m sure a lot of Christians thought he was an asshole for doing that. But just as his very in-your-face efforts to speak out against homophobia in hip hop, he was not afraid to go against the cultural grain to make a point. Here he is as Jesus, being, to some, an uncivil rebel standing up for a cause, and to others, a goatfucking asshat:<\/p>\n

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Later, in 2006, West went totally off script during a TV show raising awareness and funds for the victims of Katrina. Rather than reading the pablum provided by the cue cards, he launched a poorly done but heart-felt monologue about the plight of black people in New Orleans, and was finally cut off by the producers when he stated, quite plainly, “George Bush hates black people.”<\/p>\n

Here is the video of West being an uncivil rebel, speaking truth to power. Or, in the eyes of some, especially George Bush supporters, an obnoxious fucker of goats:<\/p>\n

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Then, more recently, just the other day apparently, an award was given to a country western singer at the MTV music awards. West apparently thought that a different person should have gotten the award, so he walked uninvited onto the stage, took the microphone from the young woman who was giving her acceptance speech, and announced that a different performer had also done really good … He was uncivil, but he was just speaking out for the person who had not won the award … but he did so by being an over the top fornicator of ovicaprids extraordinare.<\/p>\n

Here he is doing that:<\/p>\n

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Man, that goat is going to be sore for a couple of days…<\/p>\n

My point? Very simple. If you are going to operate in that territory between unquestioning civility and abject goat fucking, don’t be Kanye West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You all know who Kanye West is. Personally, I had never heard of the man until yesterday afternoon. But then, until yesterday afternoon I thought MTV was a cable television network that played music videos, so what do I know. But never mind that. We’re not here to talk about me. We’re here to talk … Continue reading Kanye West: Uncivil Rebel or Obnoxious Lover of Goats?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3983],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-73f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}