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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8029698" data-attributes="member: 6801228">This might be overstepping, but all of these calls for how this "new" cancel culture is destroying everything, causing the death of free expression and ruining the potential of any work being released that touches on any subject got me thinking. It got me thinking because underneath my computer is a copy of the works of Emily Dickinson. Emily, and Walt Whitman, are both incredibly famous poets. I also did not learn until I was in college that both were lesbian/gay and wrote some very explicit works in that respect. Works that were nearly destroyed by censors.Thinking of LGBT works, I am reminded that Achilles had a "friend" during the war. Patroclus. A man whom he cared for so strongly, that their dying wish was to be cremated and their ashes mixed so they could be together for eternity. Long depicted as "really good friends" instead of, you know, being deeply and madly in love with each other. So, let us say that from the date of a random Dickinson poem, 1854, that LGBT people have been censored, their works destroyed or warped to remove them from the public consciousness. They were few in number, with little social power, so they had no choice but to make do as best they could. Not that LGBT individuals never were shown in popular media. Many ugly stereotypes were persisted and lied about for years.Now, with social media, they have a powerful voice. Now, they are looking at TV shows and works of art that depict them poorly and are demanding a change. Now is the time that those in power should decline to participate. To refuse to submit to censorship and bully tactics. Who should stand by and call for the freedom of any artist to depict anything in any manner they choose, because, if we censor them, what might we lose? What damage might be done to the free expression of art if you are so scared to offend someone, that you never write anything? But to me, right now at this moment? It seems awfully convenient to point to the crimes done against minority artists, thinkers, and writers by the people in power, and for those same people to say "Hey, you can't do that to us. It was wrong, so you can't be for doing that to us. We need diverse voices to uphold the sanctity of art."</blockquote>

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