Kanye gets his

 That was one weary refrain Kanye West (or Ye, as he's now rebranded himself) trotted out a couple of weeks ago, and he got the usual hell-yeahs from the usual suspects. Neo-Nazis. No-We're-Not-Fascists Quasi-Fascists. Other fringe righties who, even when they knew better, tried to justify what the man said because by God this is 'Merica and he has a right to say anything he pleases, and besides some of what he said was true. 

Yes, sir. Kanye/Ye sure does run with the hip crowd.

Because, listen, anti-Semitism, ancient as it is, never really dies, and it never really dies because there will always be plenty of  skeevy folks to defend it. And so here was Kanye/Ye invoking the same tired tropes about Jews (They're sneaky! They control everything! They steal our money!) a couple of weeks ago, and there, on a freeway overpass in L.A., was a bunch of  white dudes giving the Nazi salute above a banner that read KANYE IS RIGHT.

Only the best people, as they say.

Thankfully, there are still plenty of decent people in the world, and there are a lot more of them than the Kanye/Ye's. And so, one-by-one, they exercised their right to say what they please by dropping him like a hot rock from his various business deals. And the other day, NBA star Jaylen Brown and NFL star Aaron Donald announced they were severing their ties with Donda, the agency founded by Kanye/Ye.

Apparently anti-Semitism ain't their thing. Imagine that.

Of course, the neo-Nazi/Quasi-Fascist/fringe righty response to this is that it's all just  the self-righteous ganging up on poor Kanye/Ye. One black former journalist I once respected even said it was "the system at work" against him. Which veers perilously close to the stuff Kanye/Ye himself said.

It's a standard position for this crowd when one of theirs says something reprehensible, and it reveals their real attitude toward free speech, for all their championing of it. Free speech, see, means free speech for them. Exercise your own by clapping back, and it's, you know, persecution. It's the "woke mob" trying to "cancel" someone. It's, yes, "the system at work."

Ay-yi-yi. This country, I swear.