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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      In order to make these lists they cast the net very wide, they define "banned" as meaning "some angry Christian dad in a small town complained to a school about this book and the principal agreed to look into it"

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      And, look, I grew up around people like that, and it's really easy to make fun of them and beat on them as a cultural piñata, and honestly they deserve it just on principle even when it's wildly disproportionate But let's be honest about what we're congratulating ourselves for

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      Like this doesn't actually come off at all like having this unshakable principled stance in defense of absolute freedom of artistic expression It comes off as you gloating that Ned and Maude Flanders' values are out of step with the rest of the country but yours are not

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      If you actually want to talk about censorship as a general principle you'd want to talk about the hard cases, not the easy ones Yeah of course we can all gather together to dunk on the fundies who want Harry Potter banned because it has witchcraft, that proves nothing

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      Like, I'm dead certain tons of people who smugly share lists like this on Banned Book Week WOULD "ban" books under certain circumstances, especially if we use the extended definition of "banned" to "restricted or challenged" (getting it off store shelves or school curricula)

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      I mean how do you feel about Alan Moore's Lost Girls? That book got "challenged" a hell of a lot, yanked by a bunch of distributors, seized at the border by customs officials, etc. ...Because it contains graphic drawn depictions of underage sex

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      So are you cool with that? *Would* you be okay with the book being stocked on bookstore shelves or assigned reading in high school classrooms? I don't actually know the answer to that question for myself, but I'm asking How do these people feel about Cuties being on Netflix

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      Again, I'm agnostic on the question of whether Cuties should've been made, as I generally am with movies like Kids (1995) that were challenged for similar reasons I'm pretty comfortable with saying Pretty Baby (1978), which features actual underage nudity, doesn't need to exist

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      But that's why I'm pretty open these days about thinking that "freedom of expression" isn't an absolute and that can be abrogated by other concerns Do these people feel the same way? They sound all absolutist about free speech in the abstract but their examples are all so tame

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      Like, I also don't think all copies of The Turner Diaries or The Protocols of the Elders of Zion should be destroyed but I don't want them publicly sold like they're just normal books I'd be pissed if I heard some teacher was using them as sources uncritically

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

      By their definition that means I'm someone who wants to "restrict or challenge" books Well yeah I plead guilty to that, and I think if you oppose me on that you should have the courage to do so openly, with the worst examples, and not the ones you know make you look good

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

          Like I legitimately actually want Lost Girls, which was a high-profile example from a famous creator that people really did fight bitterly over in the comics world, to be centered in discussions like this Let's go ahead and hash it out instead of dancing around it

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

          Alan Moore threw down this gauntlet about "free speech" -- "I'm a grown man who fantasizes about 14-year-old boys and girls fucking and I don't care who knows it and I'm rich and famous enough to sell a book about it" And the world at large just... kind of tiptoed past it

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

          Like we all just kind of pretend it didn't happen when discussing "Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen" and let it continue to be a "comics nerd" thing because the legal and moral issues involved legitimately will blow up many communities who all thought they had the same politics

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Sep 2020

          (See also: Half of the "hottest" content on AO3, and all of the content that AO3 explicitly fundraises for so they can have a legal team on call in case a government sends them a takedown notice for obscenity)

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        2. Cyrus @ vax adventures, or advaxtures‏ @chrysopoetics 30 Sep 2020
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          A truly insufferable amount of my career in the name-recognition sense comes from being on the “omg he’s the epitome of kids these days who want CENSORSHIP and also he’s CRAZY” side as, apparently, the scariest thing people with tenure have ever seen, because I’m v pro-warnings

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        3. Cyrus @ vax adventures, or advaxtures‏ @chrysopoetics 30 Sep 2020
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          One could make the argument that whatever I’m doing from now on is just balancing the cosmic scales in terms of making it obvious for everyone that I have no friends or allies on the “other” side too

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