… and, we thought, neither was Guccione
The whole point of “SPIN” was that “Rolling Stone” was wrong about everything and was using its near-monopoly on music journalism to hold back cultural progress
Nobody would have dogpiled Jann Wenner harder, or stuck the knife in more times, than the 1985 version of Bob Guccione Jr. 
And yet again, some conservative idiot can’t help but include transphobic comments on an unrelated topic. They’re not big fans of Black people or women, but they really, really don’t like trans people, for some reason. Also, say “woke,” you’re a joke. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
There’s a point that Beau of the 5th Column makes fairly frequently, (paraphrasing here) “People* don’t become more reactionary as they grow up; they just fail to keep pace with progress.” I’m ever so grateful to young youtubers (some of them are barely 40) for pointing out my tired old ideas and giving me fresh new ways to think. The kids are alright.
*For a given value of people.
Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that it was rhetorically critical for me to clarify that i had given up at that point on the first read, but still ultimately finished the article before blogging about it, and found absolutely nothing of value in the remaining 1000 words either, and that my broader review that “this is a bunch of bullshit, up to and including the transphobic stuff” still stands up in that context.
You know, in the same way that you aren’t allowed to have a critical thought about Jordan Bordan Peterson until you’ve watched all his Youtube videos, and read Maps of Meaning.
Okay, I’ll confess. We trans people made Wenner write his racist, misogynistic nopology.
Then we made people criticize it.
But the worst thing we ever did was to make the forgotten Bob Guccione, Jr. think that pissing out of his pie hole onto the screen was necessary or even slightly interesting.
We’re very, very sorry.
There is a lot of crossover between transphobia and antisemitism now. There probably always was, but they hid it better in the past. Now the existence of trans people is considered to be evidence of the great replacement, with children being led astray by George Soros, or the elders of Zion, or some other bullshit. Quite simply, it is 21st century Blood Libel.
It’s been mentioned before on one of the Today in Transphobia threads with evidence provided, I’m not going back to look because it will destroy my mental health for the rest of the day.
Trump, “Man, woman, camera, television.”
Peterson, “Woman, chaos, destruction, evil.”
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