I've thought a lot about how fucking useless debate and discourse was when it came to decriminalizing homosexuality How Stonewall was a riot that changed the country with a shock to the system, a wakeup call, "raising awareness" combined with straight-up intimidation
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Like so many other movements in history We have two-day weekends because of Haymarket Square The United States exists because of the Boston Massacre
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You know no amount of debate or discourse convinced the APA to take homosexuality as a "disorder" out of the DSM What happened was a team of activists stormed the APA annual conference in San Francisco in 1970, grabbed the mic and declared war against the psychiatric community
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"Declaration of war" is a direct quote It's striking looking at this angry rant how much the mental health professional community *thinks* they've changed since the '70s and how little they actually havepic.twitter.com/WYujCGysrR
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And the APA didn't actually cave until 1973, after a similar stunt in which a guy in a full face mask calling himself the Masked Psychiatrist gave an interview where he said he was a practicing clinician who was gay af in his private life and had no interest in being "cured"
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And there were many, many other respectable, well-off members of the psychiatric profession in the same position and the hypocrisy was becoming intolerable, and if the APA didn't do something then activists would start dropping dox
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Was this a "scientific" or "rational" argument? Of course not, classic ad hominem Did it WORK? Hell yeah it did, it worked IMMEDIATELY when nothing else had worked for decades
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It's just about power and it always has been -- gay doctors were terrified of the power mainstream society had and happy to wield their own power just to protect themselves and let poor marginalized gay folks get thrown in jail and put on drugs and shit in their place
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Until activists made that an untenable position and forced them to fucking choose That's the only way anything ever changes, and then science and philosophy run themselves ragged trying to catch up and explain why the decision was correct all along
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Replying to @arthur_affect
So how do we (metaphorically, in Minecraft) hold a gun to authorities' head this time?
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If I had serious ideas about this I wouldn't talk about them on Twitter, even Twitter in Minecraft
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