[Serious] That Trans Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Of all the left-leaning YouTubers you could pick, you picked Max Fucking Karson? The guy who defended Cuties not because there was some perspective being lost in all the controversy (one that might be easier to discern if you look not only into the director’s own words, but in the works of directors like Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, and Gaspar Noe), but because he considered the kids sexy? The unrepentant domestic abuser? The man who’s admitted that he’s aware he’s so unhinged that when he sought help, he asked for the Hannibal Lecter treatment? Seriously?




(Note: as sensationalistic as the thumbnail is, this is one of those videos where, after a brief introduction, they just let his own words speak for themselves for 50 minutes.)

Frankly, there’s a LOT to criticize about social media echo chambers (especially how they radicalise when left to their own devices, and this ain’t just a trans thing) and the glorified harassment campaigns that we call cancel culture, but could you have picked literally anyone else? For just one example, and one relevant to trans issues, Contrapoints has a great video on canceling and the harassment campaign that ensued because she made the mistake of hiring a trans man with some dodgy views to read a John Waters quote: