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britneyshakespeare · 11 months ago

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he's like a goddamn gay dennis prager

wait james somerton sounds a lot like some people on tumblr when they start spouting off about queer history or supposed controversies within it. is that where you guys are getting your stuff? is it james somerton brain poisoning?

#cont #i just got to the section on how he says after the aids crisis all the survivors were conservative rich gays #who didn't care about art or culture or anything but accumulating capital for themselves and assimilating???#i cant even count how many ways that that is so insensitive and offensive not to mention ahistorical #i feel like that take alone. the smugness with which he says it too! like it's pure fact! a real phenomenon #and other people just cant handle how right he is!#oh my god that goddamn assertion should've ended his career and all his credibility that is just so evil and gross #that's the kinda thing that if you claim to be a cultural connoisseur or media specialist or ESPECIALLY a queer historian #that you should just not be allowed to talk with authority anymore. but on the internet you dont need credentials #you can just say you know stuff and then make up the stuff you know and get away with it.#people who dont know any better will be like 'this guy sounds legit'#i wanna be like 'why was he accepted by queer internet users?' but thats bc we accept everybody #in many ways thats good. thats a good trait of us. that we accept people widely regardless of who they are #but we should never accept INFORMATION like that.#and there are so many people who are not well-informed enough of our own history (or who are poisoned against it)#to take what he would say. THIS TOPIC IN PARTICULAR IM STILL FUMING #to take this sort of opinion naively as if it's pushing back against a conservative narrative #NO it isnt. he's insulting survivors and activists and rewriting their histories oh my god i cant #my head is still spinning im not gonna recover from this section #worst thing in the whole video yet #everything he says to link it to some supposed devaluation of art is fucking stupid and brainless too

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