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A Moment of Clarity.

"The best thing about West’s Twitter response last night was that he refused to play this game, to acquiesce to the celebratory we’re-all-chums-really back-slapping mutual promotion arrangement that generally exists between celebrities and the media. And why should he? He is several orders of magnitude more famous — and, indeed, more important — than Kimmel will ever be.

He plays his own game, and will continue to do so, which is what drives people so crazy about him. As Siddiqi and others point out, white dudes are rarely reprimanded for being egotistical and confident; indeed, their behavior is often tolerated or celebrated outright. But when it’s someone like Kanye West? It’s all rants and meltdowns and arrogance and every other negative cliché you can think of. He has every right to be angry about this and is, in fact, 100% in the right."

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