would you like to be out of the closet in rural america?
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Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoThere was more context to it than “rural Americans saw men kissing and got angry.” He intentially created a situation where the crowd was filled with hateful bigots, they were specifically there because they are homophonic.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Oh lord, it’s OK boo boo, no need to be angry. Let’s break it down. I did not claim there are not problems in rural America, at all. All I stated was that that particular incident was intentionally created for that reaction. He even hyped up their homophobia to a fervor before the kiss. That was a demonstration of herd mentality and crowd manipulation.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Yes, and it was glorious!
BossDj@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
How so?
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It was his “super straight, straight pride” hype for the event. During the event, he even hyped them up before the kiss to elicit that reaction. How is this not plainly obvious? I’m not saying those people aren’t shit stains. Let’s just keep it reality.
BossDj@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It seems like he manipulated the crowd after they’d arrived, but I couldn’t find anything that suggests they advertised it as straight pride or anything other than a cage match to specifically draw in homophobes and bigots as was suggested.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It has been awhile, but I remember that he promoted it ahead of time with his “super straight carl” (or whatever the name was) persona.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Classic Sacha