#also 'of course people can have their opinions free speech etc. but they're wrong' is the fucking FUNNIEST anon I'm you're biggest fan

[namtanlovesfilm]

I’m not really sure if this is an unpopular opinion but i heavily disagree with putting a show like kinnporsche in the same league as not me. I’ve seen a lot of people compare them and say they’re similar (crime, gangs, gays etc). I think people give Kp wayyy too much credit, they see a high budget, explicit sex scenes and hot actors and immediately say it’s the best bl out there, that it’s set the standard and all other shows have to live up to it and of course people can have their options, free speech or whatever but they’re wrong. Not me is on a whole other level, the world shifted when the pride flag scene aired, something changed. The absolute layers to this show is insane, the activism, the found family trope, the friendships and relationships between all the characters, the pining and longing, the Oscar award winning acting, seanwhite, gramblack, toddblack, danyok, gumpa- the icon that he is, Guns portrayal of black and white was actually crazy. Sure Is not me without its flaws? Yes 100% it’s perfect wouldn’t change a thing and so in conclusion keep the yucky sa glorification show with it’s weird cast away from the perfection that is not me.

BESTIE YOU'RE GONNA GET ME IN SO MUCH TROUBLE LMAOOOOO :') so obviously I haven't watched kinnporsche so I will not be agreeing or disagreeing, though seeing you call it yucky sa glorification which is something NO ONE has ever mentioned to me & knowing the actual sa that went on behind the scenes of this show is... yikes 🤢 but about not me clearly being a cultural reset with very deep topics that had never been explored before, of course I'm gonna be right there with you agreeing lol, y'all know how FERAL this show makes me, which is why I'll stop right here <3 but for me who's very removed from kp, I always knew bitches would be comparing the uncomparable lol, and for me it was so clear that both shows, except for their darker topics & the presence of guns on screen, have absolutely nothing to do with each other and should not be compared. in fact, I don't think not me should be compared to any show EVER, and I've said that before, bc that show has just never been seen before & will likely never be seen again. also I didn't know how MUCH I needed to hear someone say not me is perfect (even though I know you're joking) until now, like this show, by virtue of being so political & layered, has always been overly criticized imo compared to others objectively less meaningful ones, and it's nice to even joke about it being perfect & not needing to change anything if that makes sense. ANYWAYS I would appreciate more slander on the shows I've never watched & been guilted about not watching, it's very fucking fun to read :')))

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[the-catboy-minyan]

i'm trying to comprehend your points about the terf-focused jkr discussion instead of holocaust denial focus, you are getting at something here i want to really understand from your perspective. i think people often come at these events through the lens of their own experience - for me i would fall under the mentally ill group that nazis identified as unworthy of existence but i don't see the holocaust at large as a primarily mental health community focused event, it was obviously an ethnic cleansing. i never put myself into the place of people targeted for ethnicity, religion, etc. by the nazis. i guess i'm asking - are you asking people to remember the totality of the holocaust and its staggering impact on Jewish people, not just take a detail and magnify it to focus on groups that have gained visibility in recent decades? if i misunderstand pls let me know! i want to understand these topics better, but if you don't want to explicate it that's all good too!

hi anon, thanks for the ask. sorry that my post wasn't clear, my thought process is a bit weird at times and i sometimes accidentally try to make multiple points at once, or forget my point halfway.

my problem wasn't that people are focusing on queer aspects of the holocaust too much, I'm queer myself. my problem was that people (in general) looked at JKR's behaviour and acted like:

of course she would stoop this low to engage in holocaust denial, she's a terf! only "evil" people can do such a vile thing as holocaust denial.

saying Nazis didn't burn books about gender affirming care is the worst act of holocaust denial you can engage in ever!!!

it being holocaust denial is a major part of why it's horrible.

now for why I think that:

pretending like only objectively horrible people like JKR are the only people who engage in holocaust denial is ignoring the rise of holocaust denialism we've seen from both the right and the left in recent months. there are people who have actively denied parts of the holocaust "calling out" jkr on it, while also insisting they're not denying parts of the holocaust because "they're right and the history books are wrong actually".

people are tweeting "hitler was right" or "hitler should have finished the job" every fucking day, recently AI translated videos on one of his speeches got circulated on social media positively. people are denying the death count is really 6 million Jews, or that the holocaust happened at all. JKR is denying specific books were burned, not that book burnings never happened or that they "weren't that bad", it's disgusting but it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.

she's not denying those book burnings because she thinks there's no way Nazis would have stooped this low or whatever, she's denying them because she can't fathom trans people existing in history (the horror!). is it holocaust denial? well it's an important event that happened as part of the holocaust and she's denying it, so technically yes, but she's denying it because she's transphobic, not because she's actually denying a holocaust event. like, the reason people are mad isn't because they were burned during the holocaust and she saying they weren't, it's because it was books about trans research and she's saying they never existed.

I hope this makes more sense, thanks again for the ask, I highly respect people going out of their way to listen to other people's perspectives (this is something I also try to do myself). please feel free to engage with and discuss this post and my take, this is my personal opinion, not an objective fact, and others may see this differently.