Ye Performs In Netherlands While Police Focus On Holocaust Denier Arrests

One of the reasons why America is the noblest nation ever devised is because of irony. While its principles are for freedom and liberty, that means you can contradict its core values. In places like the Netherlands in Europe, you legally cannot be a Holocaust denier.

As vicious and ugly and false as that idea is, you can have rallies, make “art,” and shout slogans denigrating the millions who died in concentration camps and those that survived.

At a Kanye West concert that drew tens of thousands, pro-Nazi factions saw arrest because of their anti-Semetic views adjacent to the venue.

Only in America can you be protected by the First Amendment and be as wrongheaded and disturbing as ever. In places in Europe, you can be prosecuted for ideas. While they might be terrible and horrific, you can say virtually anything as long as it’s not libel, slander, or threats.

This is not so in other regions of the globe. The United States is a haven for neo-Nazis because of the reality of smuggling in corrosive thoughts and ideas. It’s such a problem in other countries because of the arrests for saying or demonstrating pro-Nazi material.

This is the weird state in which we find ourselves. So many countries have outright banned any connotations related to denying the Holocaust, which is quite a feat.

Hours of footage, photographs, first-hand accounts, and other pieces of evidence can only point to the legitimacy of one of humanity’s harshest hours. Now, slavery in the United States can almost be disclaimed. History has slave narratives and some photographs but you could almost totally whitewash the history of America’s Original Sin.

But the Holocaust is different. It brings into focus the cruelty of humanity in a central form. Instead of centuries of oppression, the Holocaust lasted about four years. For any Ye fans, the news of fellow supporters being arrested near the actual concert can only warm their hearts.

They’re probably obtaining Passports to the USA just to be able to express their vitriol. Ye had already shown sympathy for Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime. This only fueled the fires that continue to burn in the world of ideas.

For Ye, he should show concern and outrage for few people who continue to vibe with the statements he made before his public apolog(ies). If he is at all sincere, he should support the European governments that allow him to perform. He cannot control the actions of his followers but he can condemn them, even while showing his American side for freedom of speech. He has to remember, though, laws are on the books to outlaw such behavior.

If he is to be sincere with his acts of saying sorry, he must come out and say that in his homeland, such activity would be shunned and banished from private property. However, he should also show that the people who deny the Holocaust should be ostracized in America but not arrested. This is where things get murky. Because of the reality of the Internet, it is like supercharging the hatred of the machine that had already revved the notions of degradation.

This is a machine that cannot die, nothing is erased from it, and people continue to use it for hurtful means. Ye wanted to show that in previous years. As he fanned the flames of intolerance he displayed a disturbing track record of not caring about himself. That’s not a misprint. For him to devalue innocent people, he showed a disservice to himself. More irony. But then again, is it? He seems to have moved on faster than his base who seem to cling to his nasty rhetoric over the past decade.