I feel it sets a dangerous precedent in terms of disability awareness. Kanye has a diagnosed mental disorder which he’s attributed his behaviour to and apologised. I’m not saying I agree one way or the other whether he’s owed any kind of forgiveness, but i feel that there would be other instances of people’s behaviour being influenced by similar factors not under the same scrutiny simply because of the target of his behaviour.

In a similar vein, I’ve convinced myself a lot of people slating Kanye are simply on a bandwagon, they’d be the first to defend people with disabilities being targeted and for example being blocked from entering the country for doing something arguably (emphasis here) out of their control. However Kanye was a controversial figure before his antisemitism, but not for the same kind of issue.

When I listened to radio 1 this morning, they were hearing from call ins from some people showing their disgust about Kanye being booked by Wireless. I quite literally heard a woman say “I’m not sure how the Jewish people feel about it but I’m disgusted”. I’m sorry but being offended on behalf of a people you don’t identify with yourself without even knowing said people’s opinion on said offence must surely be the definition of woke culture. I didn’t hear Radio 1 hear from a single person they identified as being of the Jewish faith. Me personally, if I heard that the Jewish people of Britain accepted Kanyes apology and were happy for him to perform, that’s enough for me. However, the only opinions I’m being given as somebody casually listening to the radio and not going out of my way to research the issue, is that of somebody chronically online for whom being offended is a personality trait.