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Thanks for the context, Rmrd.

Obey — Thu, 18 May 2017 14:56:12 +0000

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Thanks for the context, Rmrd. I don't know the band in question personally, so I don't have any take on this particular case.

That bit struck me

Obey — Thu, 18 May 2017 14:54:57 +0000

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That bit struck me immediately too. Must be the tuesday-nights-at-the-sound-factory nostalgia.

The article was written in

rmrd0000 — Thu, 18 May 2017 14:08:19 +0000

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The article was written in response the harsh backlash that a band received after an accusation of sexual harassment. The retribution was swift and devastating.

In the era of the internet, how do fans respond? R Kelley has accusations of sexual encounter with underage girls. He still has a thriving music career. Are the fans noble and non-judgmental, or are they complicit? Bill Cosby has multiple accusations of rape. It took the words of a comedian in ignite the process that brought Cosby down.Cosby was still able to sell tickets to his shows even after the accusations came to light. Were those fans non-judgmental, or evil people willing to forgive a crime?

And this really really

artappraiser — Thu, 18 May 2017 14:04:58 +0000

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And this really really strikes a chord with me, I have been known to voice similar thoughts to friends:

You know who weren’t cops? All the radicals and queers and artists and dreamers....the wider bohemian world, the actors and the drag queens and the dilettantes and the ex junkies and the current junkies, the kind of queer people who wouldn’t get caught dead getting married, the people who actually made the “old New York” of the myth into what it was. They were smart and they were funny and they were tougher than I can imagine and they were possessed of an existential commitment to the idea that life is complicated and so we shouldn’t be quick to judge.

While I always wanted equality for gay friends, I was also sad about knowing that success in that would lose a lot of them to the whole marriage, 2 1/2 kids, cottage/white picket fence and upstanding citizen territory. Death of a sub-culture, consumed by the mass.

It really is a special

artappraiser — Thu, 18 May 2017 13:53:58 +0000

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It really is a special personality type that enjoys rather than loathes being put in a "cop" position. I learned doing a stint as a moderator on a blog "bulletin board" in the olden days of the Bush years. I'll never forget the shock of recognition that I was not that kind of person when I expressed in private messaging with a feisty liberal dyke lesbian that I was getting depressed by people's reactions to my non-moderator comments, they would start to read something authoritarian into everything I said. She responded "you need to get used to it that nobody likes a cop." And I went "oh my god, that's it."