{"id":1675269,"date":"2022-10-06T07:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675269"},"modified":"2022-10-06T07:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:05:55","slug":"kanyes-artsy-white-lives-matter-display-invites-people-to-reject-groupthink-and-the-left-hates-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kanyes-artsy-white-lives-matter-display-invites-people-to-reject-groupthink-and-the-left-hates-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye\u2019s Artsy \u2018White Lives Matter\u2019 Display Invites People To Reject Groupthink, And The Left Hates It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkanyes-artsy-white-lives-matter-display-invites-people-to-reject-groupthink-and-the-left-hates-it-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Kanye West, Candace Owens, and several models, including Selah Marley, the granddaughter of reggae icon Bob Marley, wore long-sleeve shirts featuring the words \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d during Kanye\u2019s Yeezy Season 9 event at Paris Fashion Week on Monday. The front of the shirts featured Pope John Paul II and the Latin words \u201cSeguiremos Tu Ejemplo,\u201d which means, \u201cWe Will Follow Your Example.\u201d Predictably, the left went berserk.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Droves of journalists, actors, musicians, politicians, activists, and \u201canti-hate\u201d organizations decried the shirts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Uyi7PsKQfM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describing<\/a> them as \u201cdangerous,\u201d \u201cwhite supremacist,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d \u201cdisgusting,\u201d and \u201cirresponsible\u201d thanks to the apparel\u2019s sporting of the phrase \u201cWhite Lives Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This phrase, of course, is usually used as a response to the famous line \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d which is both the name of and the slogan for the Marxist organization that orchestrated violent,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/16\/riots-following-george-floyds-death-could-cost-up-to-2b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">destructive<\/a>\u00a0race rioting during the summer of 2020 and beyond.\u00a0That\u2019s one of the reasons BLM has nothing to do with valuing black lives. In its name, rioters mercilessly torched and looted black neighborhoods and businesses. Instead, the organization serves to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/17\/tax-documents-further-expose-black-lives-matter-organization-as-racist-multimillion-dollar-grifter-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enrich<\/a>\u00a0its corrupt, Marxist leaders and totally transform our Democratic system into a racially \u201cequitable\u201d communist regime.<\/p>\n<p>So Kanye was correct when he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9174840\/kanye-west-white-lives-matter-t-shirt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0after the show that \u201cEveryone knows that Black Lives Matter is a scam.\u201d There is also truth in his recent Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nojumper\/status\/1577784983476793345?s=20&amp;t=rSdUpJimvDDYodzGkrwIRA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>: \u201cHere\u2019s my latest response when people ask me why I made a tee that says white lives matter\u2026 THEY DO.\u201d The regime, however, did not take kindly to such frank and accurate remarks from Kanye.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vogue contributing editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, who attended Kanye\u2019s show, went on an Instagram story rant afterward, writing that Kanye\u2019s \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d shirt was \u201cindefensible behavior,\u201d \u201cpure violence,\u201d and that there was \u201cno art here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kanye responded to Karefa-Johnson\u2019s comments in kind, making fun of the fashion editor\u2019s sense of style and sharing a photo of her with the caption \u201cthis is not a fashion person,\u201d and another photo zooming in on her laced knee-high boots with a caption about how Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, would hate them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite Karefa-Johnson firing the first shot, the media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2022\/10\/gigi-hadid-ye-bullying-yzy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">labeled<\/a>\u00a0Kanye\u2019s response to Karefa-Johnson as an \u201cindefensible bullying campaign.\u201d Fashion icon Gigi Hadid also inserted herself, calling West \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1348965\/why-gigi-hadid-is-calling-bully-kanye-west-a-joke?query=kanye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a bully and a joke<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Selah Marley wasn\u2019t immune to the crazed attacks either, with people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancehallmag.com\/2022\/10\/05\/news\/bob-marleys-granddaughter-selah-defends-wearing-kanye-wests-white-lives-matter-shirt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a> she \u201cdisgraced the name and memory of her grandfather Bob Marley.\u201d Marley responded by writing, \u201cThe past 24 hours has allowed me to realize that most of y\u2019all are stuck in a hive mind mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do what the group tells you to do &#038; think what the group tells you to think,\u201d she added. \u201cWitnessing someone break free from \u2018the agenda\u2019 sends you all into such a panic that you will do whatever it takes to force them back into the box that you feel they should exist in.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Nothing Scares the Regime More than Art<\/h2>\n<p>Kanye\u2019s \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d fashion moment provoked extreme volatility not because it was \u201cracist\u201d or \u201cdangerous,\u201d but because it possessed a unique power to pull people out of the \u201chive mind mentality\u201d Marley described. And the reason his fashion show is powerful, irrespective of whatever Karefa-Johnson says, is that it\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0art.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b56xdYB_8Wk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a>\u00a0to professor and author Jordan Peterson, artists \u201cmov[e] the culture forward into the unknown \u2026 by translating what is as of yet unimaginable.\u201d Artists are known to push boundaries. Consider the laid-back and flowy fashion aesthetic of 1960s hippies or the abstract and geometric patterns in cubism. Both these movements subverted the norm in fashion and art, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At their best, artists don\u2019t push boundaries solely to push boundaries, they do it to feed our imagination and invite us to consider problems or unknowns in society. That\u2019s why art movements tend to be counter-cultural. \u201c[Artists are] problem solvers,\u201d said Peterson, \u201cThey\u2019re problem detectors and problem solvers. That\u2019s what true artists do.\u201d And that\u2019s what Kanye did. While his fashion show may not be on the level of the Sistine Chapel or the Mona Lisa, his shirt is an artistic expression of a truth currently un-sayable in today\u2019s America.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, his fashion statement holds a power far greater than an activist merely tweeting \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d could ever dream of. Kanye doesn\u2019t need to go through the laundry list of instances of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/08\/how-americas-elites-decided-vicious-anti-white-racism-is-a-good-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-white racism\u00a0<\/a>or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/05\/the-corruption-of-black-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BLM corruption<\/a>. He simply creates and people start talking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leftism has become a full-fledged religion, with its own zealous followers and unquestionable orthodoxy. Yet it is the left\u2019s insistence on obedience and its desire for total control, without grace, that is igniting rebellion. Indeed, while Christianity as a whole is on the decline, young people are increasingly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/highline\/article\/millennial-nuns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attracted<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0traditional\u00a0Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I also think it\u2019s no coincidence that Pope John Paul II is on the front of Kanye\u2019s shirt. The current pope, Pope Francis, is a socialist who is more outspoken about the environment than abortion. One of his most insidious moves to date has been his crusade to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchmilitant.com\/news\/article\/popes-tlm-crackdown-and-double-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expel<\/a>\u00a0the Traditional Latin Mass from the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II, by contrast, was famously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/john-pauls-conservative-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conservative<\/a>, tolerant of the Latin rite, and anti-communist. John Paul II, traditional Latin, and \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d on one shirt <em>couldn\u2019t\u00a0be\u00a0more<\/em> counter-cultural.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Art has always been the best communicator of politics and philosophy. It has the power to convey tricky ideas and emotions that are less effective when expressed via conventional methods. Kanye is pushing people outside their comfort zone or \u201cbox,\u201d as Marley says, and inviting them to think. Both his identity as a wacky yet introspective and moving musician and his use of fashion instead of traditional political statements draw people in. He\u2019s not a Twitter troll or a journalist or a politician; he\u2019s Kanye.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing could threaten the left more, which is why they have responded with such volatility. Shirts cannot be \u201cirresponsible\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d These deranged responses mean Kanye made a powerful artistic statement that prompts further thought, and the left hates it.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Evita Duffy is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, &#038; her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evita@thefederalist.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West, Candace Owens, and several models, including Selah Marley, the granddaughter of reggae icon Bob Marley, wore long-sleeve shirts featuring the words \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d during Kanye\u2019s Yeezy Season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1675272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}