I tried to ask a another youtuber Living Anachronism who has worked with Shadiversity if he knew about Shad’s homophobic content & the mod delete my question, told me asking about that was against the no drama rule, that it wasn’t homophobic & proceeded to try to gaslight me with pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
I’m tired of bringing thing up in non queer spaces only to be told that’s it not actually homophobic.
The original video I referred to:https://youtu.be/GiyMDN9j2OU?si=bDqnc1pCG8t3HASp
Mhm never heard of his homophobic takes.
I’m not sure why one would need to be LGBT to point out homophobia? I’m not gay, half my parents are, I’ll call it out whenever I see it.
This is more about straight people who tell qweer people calling out homophobia that it’s not homophobia & downplaying their experience.
Well then why not say that then? I could follow the rest of the screenshot conversation but that part confused me. Anyone should be able to call out homophobia and gatekeeping the right to such critique hardly benefits any oppressed groups. And I think we probably agree on that.
Your statement likely made more sense in context, but that’s missing in the screenshot. Generalizations like this are wrong and easy enough to avoid.
You do not need to be, but a LGBTQ+ person will probably have more ‘experience’ with this discrimination and thus know when it’s bad. They can often recognise it earlier and better, exactly because they themselves often are the victims of it, and experience the effects.
If you’re not LGBTQ+, you don’t really experience homophobia yourself. That said, you should still call it out.
There’s a way to call it out. And it isnt inciting a pitchfork waving mob.or.publicly shaming someone.
This doesn’t change peoples.opinions. it entrenches them. You know how to actually.create change in people with abhorrent opinions?
Exposure. Education (and not in a patronizing way). There’s a guy that’s been de-racisting KKK members for years, and he does it by just kind of hanging out with them.
The way people call things out gives people ammunition for their persecution complexes and makes them double down on their beliefs. It may feel good to scream “you’re a fucking homophobe” from the rafters but it makes the problem worse.
It doesnt mean someone isnt homophobic. But the aggregate of this approach is to create communities of people that cling to these ideologies like life rafts.
Like. There is no better way to ensure they never have a real interaction with a gay person than trying to have the entire internet shame them for being homophobic.
Even if this dude wakes up tomorrow and sees the error of his ways would be ever be allowed to forget the public and humiliating fashion in which it was called out?
I’ve no doubt this dude deserves to be called out for being ignorant but it also doesn’t work. Its hard to listen to opinions you know are wrong, especially when they’re based on ignorance, but the only way this guys opinion changes if he sees firsthand that gay people are just like him in every way that counts.
So if you want to call him out and publicly shame him go ahead, because he no doubt deserves it, but don’t be surprised when he just doubles down on it all.
I’m an elder Gen X. Who are these people? Why should I care about them? Does their limited literacy and obvious homophobia have an impact on the wider world in general?
Edit: Sorry; I didn’t notice the youtube link initially. I am shame.
Anyway, I’m like 30 seconds in now, and it’s two fucking morons in shitty Costume City versions of chain mail talking about issues they’re wildly unfamiliar with, and somehow they’ve got, like, 100k followers? WTF? Am I just taking crazy pills?
Edit edit: So, like, are these chodes like the Australian version of Andrew Taint?
Shad is Australian and his politics are shitty, but he’s not an Andrew Taint if only because his influence is miniscule outside of the niche of people interested in medieval weaponry but not interested enough in that to actually go out and join a HEMA or SCA or similar club (because just about the first thing you’ll learn if you do join a HEMA club is how shitty his opinions about history are…in addition to his modern-day political opinions).
Oh, trust me - I wasn’t putting his shitty views on the HEMA community in general. I’m friends with a couple of people who like to put armor on and bash the shit out of eachother. I don’t understand it, but they’re good people, and they wouldn’t do shitty things like gaybash, like these fucking chodes are doing. So basically, they’re, like, right-wing LARPers? Like, they strongly identify with the crusades because they want to fantasize about killing people different from them?
Oh yeah sorry I didn’t think that you were doing that at all. All I thought you were doing was accidentally overstating Shad’s relevance by comparing him to Tate. Like, Tate is broadly popular among reactionaries and conservatives. Shad just appeals to quite a niche audience who either don’t know about or who agrees with his politics, and who are into the history thing.
But then also, his audience is limited by the fact that even if you completely ignore his political beliefs, his actual content is bad. It limits his appeal a lot because even conservative HEMA people (and unfortunately there definitely are some very racist conservatives who like HEMA for the reason your describe) don’t like his uneducated bad takes about fighting. He does well only with people who don’t know better.
I believe he’s Mormon as well, which is where some homophobia could come from.
Oh shit. I didn’t know Shad is homophobic. What a shame…
It’s not that much of a shame because even without his bigotry, the substance of his videos is severely ill-informed and lacking. He mostly makes it up based on vibes and what feels right, and he gets very grumpy when the people who have actually studied and practised based on historical manuals point out where he’s wrong.
But yeah, he’s got a whole second channel that’s your typical right-wing reactionary media critic, whinging about how Star Wars got woke or whatever.
Ah. I didn’t know his videos are actually factually inaccurate. I was mostly entertained by his videos on castles. I wonder if there are any other YouTubers who cover castles and such who are decent people.
