I've heard this guy being recommended multiple times, it's a shame bc some of his analysis may have some value, but this is inexusible amounts of stupidpol, he has many other endorsements of transphobia and homophbia on his twitter and it's always through the lens of saying gender essentialism is the materialist stance (more dunks in comments)

    • Venusta [any]
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      2 years ago

      But I think that a plausible economic argument can be made for one of his key arguments – that the political gay movement expresses middle class and upper class interests. I will in this post try to pull together an argument to this effect. I will focus on the mean class position of homosexual men, and show that this puts them in the top 10% of the population, and that this economic position is not incidental, but is closely connected with the gay male mode of life. Note the specificity, it does not apply to Lesbians.

      • Venusta [any]
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        2 years ago

        The conclusion from the evidence so far is that the gay marriage movement is fundamentally conservative, aimed at the securing of relatively privileged property ownership and it makes the relative position of women in society slightly worse

        • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          that's weird but i remember some discourse about how marriage equality is nice but is kinda less important than housing and employment protections that we do not have and did not get.

          position of women in society slightly worse

          :warf-wtf:

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Why are people so fucking weird about this? What :brainworms: drive perfectly ordinary, reasonable people to come up with all kinds of twisty sophistry to try to justify being weird about queer people?

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        2 years ago

        it was in new york city. new york city is where money is except harlem, which is where poverty and black people are. all LGBTQs are white. it's simple material analysis.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      So this guy has literally nothing but horribly awful takes on all levels but he once talked about using computers in socialism so people keep talking about him?

      I mean, fuck, literally siding with the British imperialists against Irish independence? I know people make arguments about how some leftists are stuck in the past socially and thats why transphobes arent entirely exorcised, but I really dont get how you would reckon with siding with like the most classic imperialist nation in a struggle for independence and self determination.