at some point in the last few months my general estimation of the queer community and most queer people turned from positive to negative. for decades it felt like The Queers were unquestionably on the proverbial right side of history, and now it seems like the wrong one, and i feel increasingly uncomfortable labeling myself "queer" because i feel like i'm associating myself with and helping give cover to something deeply sick and wrong and broken in our society. i still associate with a lot of people who haven't had this happen, whose feelings about queers and queerness are stuck in the positive setting, and it often feels like talking to someone living in a completely alien reality utterly detached from mine

@velartrill I think this is largely due to two factors, the popularity of post-modernism (the ideology, not the alias for "stuff i don't like") and the cult/group mentality enabled by social media.

Post-modernism as an epistemological relativistic ideology (i.e. subjective idealism) states that all interpretations of reality are equally valid and that empirical evidence has little to no value. When this is put together with the ability of social media to dehumanize others and create mobs we have the quick and strong rise of the "narrative" that manages to acquire enough acceptance first. From there anyone that deviates from this line of though is quickly cut off, or "cancelled", by the mob.

Of course the fact that the fact that people in general have poor critical capacity, due to the deficient education system in most countries, doesn't help much either.

Why and how post-modernism managed to gain so much acceptance is still a puzzle to me.

The fact that dumb 13 year old kids from /b/ "warned" me about this as early as 2012 makes me feel weird.

gamers rise up i guess?