KANYE WEST IS FORCING LIBERALS TO CHECK THEIR ARTISTIC PRIVILEGE: “It’s not just that the assumption that all your favorite artists are reflect your own values makes you entitled and intolerant. It’s that it dulls your critical faculties. The idea of objective criticism is non-starter when you assume that any art that doesn’t result in personal affirmation is somehow bad. And to the extent that art must be challenged in the instances where it does inject dangerous values into the cultural bloodstream, that’s hard to do when you think it might otherwise be advancing political goals that you agree with.”

I’m so old, I can remember when politics was secondary in the entertainment industry to actually entertaining audiences.