The Happy Place Will NEVER Be Pro-Nazi. That's a Nathan Rabin Promise!

I recently learned that an artist that I considered my favorite rapper AND producer for a solid decade was a Nazi. That was VERY disillusioning! 

When I say that he’s a Nazi I don’t mean that he supports Donald Trump, although he did that as well. No, I mean that he pretty much destroyed his career and gave up BILLIONS so that he could go on Alex Jones and talk about how, actually, Adolf Hitler was a pretty righteous dude who did cool shit like invent microphones and stages. 

When given an opportunity to very publicly denounce the genocidal policies of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party he instead said that he liked Hitler and that it was time for people to stop dissing Nazis. 

Supporting Donald Trump was a clear-cut deal-breaker for me as an obsessive former fan. Coming out loud and proud as a Nazi-lover is a super-duper-mega-ultra deal-breaker. 

At the risk of stating the obvious, the Nazis were some VERY bad dudes. They did some VERY bad shit. Let’s just say that “Nazi” is shorthand for evil for a very good reason. 

Finding out that a man I identified with on a deeply personal level and have praised effusively through the years romanticizes, glamorizes and defends a regime that murdered six million of my fellow Jews was heartbreaking. 

But it also made me wonder if some of my other favorite artists are Nazis as well. I love the catchy ditties and clever lyrics of the band Squeeze, for example, and would be very disappointed if I learned that they collect Nazi memorabilia, goose-step up a storm and give each other the Hitler salute. 

I would not be a fan of Squeeze if I were to discover that they’re enthusiastic fans of Adolf Hitler the way Kanye West is. 

You might be feeling a little paranoid and uncertain as well. Heck, you might even wonder if I’m a Nazi 

I want to state as unequivocally as possible that I AM NOT A NAZI. In fact I FUCKING HATE NAZIS. They’re literally the worst. They’re EXACTLY as bad as the Nazis. 

Now I know what you’re thinking: sure, Nathan might not be a Nazi, Hitler lover and Holocaust denier now but what if he keeps shifting further and further right, to the point where, ten years from now, Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place will be re-named Nazi Rabin’s Hitler Place? 

To paraphrase Clint Eastwood’s beloved catch-phrase from In the Line of Fire, that’s not going to happen! You might think that the only reason that I have a negative impression of Hitler is because I’m Jewish and Hitler tried to kill every Jew on the planet and wipe out my entire people. 

That certainly contributes to my negative feelings towards the man but Kanye West is African-American and, despite what West might think, Hitler was not a fan or a friend of the black community. He was the world’s foremost White Supremacist and one of the core beliefs of White Supremacy is that white people are superior to all other races and all other races are inferior to white people. 

Yet that somehow has not kept Kanye from trying to rehabilitate Hitler’s reputation, from “History’s greatest monster” to “misunderstood cool dude.”

That’s not me. That will never be me. I AM NOT A NAZI AND WILL NEVER BE. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT! That’s the Nathan Rabin promise and you can take that to to the Jew-run bank!

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