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now let's talk about what happens next:
what happens next is that you will watch news organizations lean, very bizarrely, on the Spacey coming out. You will be confused by this.
Spacey being gay is not news to you or I. But it is news to people who watch Fox, who read the New York Post. But more importantly...
Playing "whoa, Spacey is gay!(??)" and "PS he abused a kid" lets a contiguous elision occur: it says, without saying, these are the same.
Making "SPACEY COMES OUT AS GAY" the headline isn't "missing the point". It is making one.
Now, all the energy directed at the Weinsteins and the ME TOO campaign will tumble to an easier target: the gay community.
as Trump turned "fake news" from anti-propaganda diagnosis to accusation, rooting out sex abusers will now slip into hunting LGBT community.
this energy gathering like a thundercloud overhead abt men in power abusing that power now turns to strike a beleaguered queer population.
This isn't prophecy; this is history.
That didn't take long, did it.
