"Gay kids will suicide over a vulgar tweet" is a beyond galaxy-brain tweet.https://twitter.com/ZombiesAreJerks/status/1112433819192311809 …
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I actually met one of the founders of Act up, he came to a chanology protest and wanted to talk tactics.
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Interesting!
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Yeah, it was an interesting convo. I got the impression he thought the org had gone too far in a negative direction.
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Possibly. I tend to see links to post-Columbine and the deluge of anti-bullying stuff that has gone far off the rails. And judging from our current situation, has not meant people growing up post-C are non-bullying adults, but more so.
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That explains a lot of the _unseriousness_ of the current crop of psychodramaticians, certainly. The specific focus on catastrophic mortality (which somehow never shows up in CDC statistics) feels like it's coming from somewhere else. But I dunno.
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It's proving an effective tool in persuasion, and so many not swayed at all by actual stats, so following ActUp ways does make sense. As you say, they aren't comparable issues but hey, if it works?
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In the former case, one could actually draw a line between cause and effect. Today, elevated suicide risk for gay teens is used as a club against a whole spectrum of opinion that has little or nothing to do with it.
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Just the idea that kids will accidentally view a negative opinion and kill themselves is a trope I see almost every day on here to shut down conversations.
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Yea. That stuff gets debunked again and again but it's an effective tool to use on too many. And as Rev pointed out, AIDS was fact based in terms of its devastation where as this is tossing some untrue and some manipulated stats to pound people.
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So people take that as a dramatic/emotional model for a certain kind of successful activism, failing to understand that ACT UP was very well designed to fit a particular set of circumstances and a specific goal.
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AIDs, etc. helped ensure that there was little in the way of living tradition for acronym communities beyond the memory of trauma, and activism. When the thread of memory is severed, what remains are images, symbols, narratives. Eventually to be gay becomes to be endangered.
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