As Ye continues to force a powerful “filtering” effect on all media figures, causing people to self-sort and further show their true colors (ahem, Jordan Peterson), one of the camps that I find most strange is the otherwise dissident right, small-hat-savvy intellectuals who criticize “Ye isn’t well-spoken enough”, which is the same camp that will say he doesn’t come with enough facts, or that he’d “get owned in a debate”. Talk about missing the forest for the trees; God gives us all a wide array of talents, to be used in ways he sees fit to serve different purposes. It is a feature, not a bug, of His intelligent design.
One major example of this for me, is the host of Our Interesting Times, Tim Kelly, who I usually love listening to. This is a guy who speaks the truth on the Six Points, is hated by the ADL, and constantly interviews people like E Michael Jones. However, when it comes to Ye, he finger-wags that this is “clown world seeping into a serious discussion”. He clutches his pearls at the fact that Ye isn’t polished enough, that he wears a mask, and in general that he’s not following some Unspoken Protocol About Discussing the JQ.
It may be judgmental and un-Christian of me to say, but obviously the vast majority of the populace are not people who care about intellectualism, philosophy, or debates. People generally abhor philosophy, and even in most Christian churches, must parishioners don’t want to get into the deeper meanings and interpretations of the faith. It is like the famous Don Marquis quote, “'If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you; if you make them really think, they will hate you.” Not all audiences can be influenced with the same approach- I bet somewhere Jeb Bush sat in 2016 saying "Yeah, sure Trump won but the guys a philistine!". Not only have most people never heard of Roosh, E Michael Jones, Germar Rudolf, or Tim Kelly, but as Ye so astutely pointed out, most people don’t know who Benjamin Netanyahu or Rahm Emanuel are (as crazy as that might sound to people such as those on this forum). But everyone knows who Kanye West is, regardless of what name he currently rocks.
Ye is not really for the Roosh V types, not for the intellectuals, other than for entertainment. Most people on forums such as this made up their minds on these topics 5+ years ago, when the Culture Wars really started. But for the uninformed masses, perhaps no one could do more damage to the finely manipulated Koshervative Neocon Narrative of the 20th Century than what Ye, and to a lesser extent Kyrie and Chappelle, have done over the past 2 months. They have reached an entirely new audience previously thought unreachable, who now has the seed of curiosity well planted and will continue to Notice things in the future they never Noticed before. They will all say to themselves, "Wow all that banning and censorship kinda proves he was right", and that's an insanely powerful victory. That audience could have never been reached through intellectual debate, PowerPoint presentations or documentaries chalked full of well-cited facts, or Alt-Right D-list celebrities.
It's astonishing sometimes how people can be so intelligent, yet completely misunderstand their fellow blue collar countrymen. Perhaps this is the real genius of Nick Fuentes, still only 24 years old, having the tact and maturity to know how big of an opportunity this is for the Truth to get out, and deciding to ride this horse until it dies (maybe soon, admittedly). You're up against massive odds in the Culture Wars, they have the numbers and the institutions and the money. You have to adopt a hit-and-run, Fabian Strategy or Hannibal will lay your civilization to waste; take the 2-foot putts when offered and sink them. Intellectuals like Tim Kelly are like Gaius Flaminius, old men bitterly stuck in their ways and unable to adopt, willing to take down their culture with them out of pride. This has been a major issue of Conservatives in the last decade; "Letting Perfect be the Enemy of Good". We are all Sinners in the eyes of the Lord; just do your best and keep marching forward. The opposition elects people with dementia, stroke patients, or dead people (as Nancy Pelosi once said “A glass of water could get elected in San Francisco if it had a D next to it on a ballot”), while Conservatives sit around and wait for the ”perfect” candidate or situation which never comes, and meanwhile they continue to lose ground in the Culture War. Nick Fuentes understands you have to seize opportunities, even if there’s some uncomfortable risk involved, because what’s the alternative? The alternative is you continue to lose by choosing nothing- therefore you have nothing but potential gains on a guy like Ye speaking out. Even if Ye completely falls flat from here on out, it was a definitive victory, it let a genie out of the bottle that when the layman is exposed to the concept, there's no turning back.
IQ, debates, philosophy, etc have their time and place in society. But often times (especially hard times), Action + Seizing Opportunity itself is the more powerful agent of change. Men of courage. Ye, at this point, appears incredibly courageous. Never thought I'd see the day when "Nick Fuentes" was mentioned on The View
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