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Ferrets are Cool

(21,063 posts)
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 11:33 PM Sep 2022

Kanye West Says He's Never Read A Book

That explains a lot.
Kanye West shared that he’s repulsed by literature, comparing books to a vegetable often despised by children.
The hit-maker’s confession comes after a Rolling Stone report that parents were required to sign nondisclosure agreements to send their children to his tuition-based Christian private school. The school, Donda Academy, is named after his late mother, Donda West, who was a professor.

What a loser.

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Kanye West Says He's Never Read A Book (Original Post) Ferrets are Cool Sep 2022 OP
No one is surprised. FoxNewsSucks Sep 2022 #1
He's laughing all the way to the bank jimfields33 Sep 2022 #9
You're right Dorian Gray Sep 2022 #12
Narcissist can't stand spending time doing something that's not all about him. tanyev Sep 2022 #2
Neither has Donald Trump. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #3
That's actually not true. Bleacher Creature Sep 2022 #4
So he should run a private school... JT45242 Sep 2022 #5
Who would expose their children to that? Farmer-Rick Sep 2022 #6
Well, shit. Now it makes sense. The Unmitigated Gall Sep 2022 #7
I'm shocked, shocked! Well... not that shocked. Initech Sep 2022 #8
I guess that makes this the first Book Report he ever did. TheBlackAdder Sep 2022 #10
... live love laugh Sep 2022 #11
We shouldn't make fun of the Illiterate! Emile Sep 2022 #13
... Ferrets are Cool Sep 2022 #16
Lol, he is trolling and so many take the bait. Celerity Sep 2022 #14
Even a narcissists would think twice about gaining attention by admitting that... Ferrets are Cool Sep 2022 #17
Of course he has. Just Google "Books Recommended by Kanye West." betsuni Sep 2022 #15
How stupid must one be to admit something like that, even if it isn't true. Ferrets are Cool Sep 2022 #18
But he says he doesn't want to use words that are classist. betsuni Sep 2022 #19
"He's a jackass" mnmoderatedem Sep 2022 #20
We know, Kanye, we know (n/t) MissMillie Sep 2022 #21

jimfields33

(15,462 posts)
9. He's laughing all the way to the bank
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 01:29 AM
Sep 2022

I’m sure he could care the heck less what any of us think. In fact. I doubt he even will be aware of it.

Dorian Gray

(13,469 posts)
12. You're right
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 05:56 AM
Sep 2022

he won't care what we think at all.

And yet, I still think he's a moron.

And that anybody who sends their kids to his moron school is a moron.

tanyev

(42,358 posts)
2. Narcissist can't stand spending time doing something that's not all about him.
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 11:48 PM
Sep 2022

Maybe the most remarkable thing about the report that Trump kept a copy of Mein Kampf by his bed is the idea that he would look at any book that was about something other than Donald Trump.

ETA: I see from a post below that it wasn't Mein Kampf, it was a book of Hitler's speeches. Same principle applies, though. Even if Donald Trump thinks Hitler was awesome, he's not going to waste precious Donald Trump time reading anything that's not about Donald Trump.

OAITW r.2.0

(23,813 posts)
3. Neither has Donald Trump.
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 11:56 PM
Sep 2022

I don't think he ever possessed the skill to do focused concentration that reading requires.

Bleacher Creature

(11,235 posts)
4. That's actually not true.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 12:14 AM
Sep 2022
Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed

According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed.

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

-SNIP-


https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?amp

JT45242

(2,173 posts)
5. So he should run a private school...
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 12:20 AM
Sep 2022

Ugghhh. As a professional educator who has to get a degree and pass the praxis (national teacher exam) to get my license. Then I had to get a master's degree to keep my license (renewal requirements) but this narcissistic asshat can run a private school without ever reading a book.

Does he even have a GED or HS diploma.

This makes me want to vomit.

But I'll bet his friend Betsy Devos is all giggles and happy at that.

Farmer-Rick

(10,072 posts)
6. Who would expose their children to that?
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 12:22 AM
Sep 2022

"parents were required to sign nondisclosure agreements to send their children to his tuition-based Christian private school."

An NDA for you to send your children there? What's he hiding about what he's doing to the children? This is a recipe for abuse.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,063 posts)
17. Even a narcissists would think twice about gaining attention by admitting that...
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 07:33 AM
Sep 2022

a smart one, that is.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,063 posts)
18. How stupid must one be to admit something like that, even if it isn't true.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 07:35 AM
Sep 2022

He must be the only person alive who BRAGS about not reading.

betsuni

(25,128 posts)
19. But he says he doesn't want to use words that are classist.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 08:03 AM
Sep 2022

One wants to be pure and righteous and avoid bad words. Populism! Better to stick to Yoda and Tarzan language, something is either good or bad.

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