Censoring Kanye West’s music would solve nothing

Published October 28, 2022 8:54pm ET



The automatic impulse to erase people completely from public life over real or perceived transgressions is absurd, and it does little to protect anyone from bigotry or anything else. That applies to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, as well as it does to anyone else.

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