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Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years

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It’s like—just because this is a story about the public welfare that readers are extremely interested in, that doesn’t mean a newspaper HAS to cover it. Thousands of people will die because of that Globe article, both here and in Palestine.

The fact that they decided to make some minor confrontation in some random ass bar into national news is actually quite disgusting. Trans people and lgbtq people literally cannot show any anger or emotion or else they get blasted and targeted on national news

That’s what made me mad about it; if you’re familiar with the communities involved it’s like “yeah this is a crazy example but sometimes in communities of overlapping marginalized folks we go a bit overboard” but right wingers will just look at it and say “see all those queers are crazy”

Yeah, but the difference is in a lot of spaces you can declare them assholes and shove them out. Our lefty instinct to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, presume good faith, extend a hand and accommodate means our assholes destroy whatever they touch, including the bar in question.

They end up *being in charge* because anyone who would challenge them ends up labeled as some kind of -ist and you aren’t in this world if you aren’t open to, and horrified by the idea that you might actually be an -ist. The owners weren’t angry - they were defeated and apologetic.

There are plenty of places in Western Mass that don’t have that problem, despite involving the same people. Having boundaries is a constant chore, but it is work lots of us learn to do. The flip side is that far right tolerates actual Nazis by not curating anything & just letting people be abused.

Yeah, I mean you can't run a business if assholes are your only clientele, and catering to assholes by not kicking them out when they get out of control will ensure they're your only clientele.

IIRC it was a story by a student in the student newspaper that got picked up by mainstream media. And the student was really writing more about how campus dining was trying to paper over crappy food by calling it ethnic things like banh mi and sushi that it had little resemblance to.

No wonder archeologists just say "this must be a religious ceremony" to everything they don't have an immediate explanation for. This post here is more confusing than the guy sitting on the giant stone slap pouring water ahead of it. We may never regain the context required to understand this post.

I mean... as "a queer" who has spent too much time in somerville and cambridge, let's just say it was painfully on the nose. Rightwingers don't need an excuse to do what they do though, that's gonna happen regardless.

The second half of this is my general take away from any “you’re giving the right ammo!” self-crit on anything else. A fucking washed up college football coach was complaining about Furry aviation pilots and he’s a sitting senator. There was no newspaper piece about immigrants eating animals.

There is definitely plenty of disinfo/right wing internet for all that stuff, but that tends to be self-selecting. If someone was looking up recipes online and came across it, and then believed it without investigation, they were wired for it.

Ya. This was ultimately a bar run by well meaning people that experienced a skill issue and got abused by some weird narcissistic shitheads. This is not political news, it is not endemic. If it where, I'd have some more relevant news about narcisissism and religious congregations for you.

I'm so mad at people who needed to have an opinion on this stupid situation so badly that they propelled it to a top trending story. a few dozen people failing at conflict resolution is not national news and now newspapers are going to use more queer people as lol/cash cows

Seems like a hit piece written for this exact purpose and what ever hyper local issue is happening is more nuanced then this article let’s on.

Actually I think it’s a good example of how narcissistic people can take advantage of a well meaning endeavor and center themselves, but that’s just me.

It's a bunch of people who were already right wing centrists now getting permission to openly punch left A clearly gross right wing operation to find one tiny conflict in a small leftist space and use it to push their narrative, and every dumb lib on this site is happily taking their bait