＂Dahmer Is White, Not Gay＂
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Summary
Netflix removed the LGBTQ tag from the new season of Monster, Monster, starring Evan Peters as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, after backlash from the LGBTQ community. What does this mean for the future of the show, and why did this happen?
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LGBTQ community here was not happy after the new hit series on Netflix, Monster.
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They've done it on a couple of the white serial killers, of course.
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But Dahmer, Jeffrey Dahmer, the guy in Milwaukee who killed 17 people.
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Some of them he ate, some of them he had sex with.
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Maybe all of them, I forget all the details, but most of them he had sex with.
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He lured young boys, basically, into his apartment.
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People that are in transit, they don't really have anywhere to go, or they haven't settled down, or they're on the run, essentially.
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So when Netflix added the LGBT tag to this show, they were not happy, the activists here.
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They said, this is not the representation that we're looking for.
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You see, we should only have positive people, positive role models, positive events that happen.
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Netflix removes, consequently, that LGBTQ tag from Dahmer after backlash from viewers.
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The show, starring Evan Peters as the notorious serial killer, launched September 21st on the streaming platform
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and was categorized under the LGBTQ tag for at least two days.
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A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to Variety that LGBTQ tag was officially removed by Friday, September 23rd.
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The decision to categorize Dahmer as LGBTQ content ignited controversy on social media,
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with many subscribers condemning Netflix for the decision.
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The tag is now normally used to spotlight shows such as Heartstopper and Sex Education,
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both of which include LGBTQ characters and subject matters in a positive light.
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See, so if it's anything negative, then the, you know, group X can just ask to be disassociated from that.
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No, of course, because the whole spin here is that this is a white guy, right?
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They love making shows about these crazy serial killers as long as they're white.
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And so they did not want the LGBTQ tag associated with him, but simply just,
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can we just turn him into a white supremacist serial killer, please, who has mental issues?
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I mean, and obviously he had mental issues and he was like drilling holes in people, in the kids' skulls.
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He put some of the body parts in the fridges, in different containers and stuff, and saved some of it and stuff like that.
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But so as long as it's not something you're looking for with your group,
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apparently all you have to do is whine and complain and it will go away, apparently.
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Because immediately they spun it that this is obviously a racist attack, right?
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So it's like what I can see here, it's two, maybe three white people,
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depending on how you define it and how you break it down.
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And most others are either black and there's like one or two maybe Asians or something like that in there as well.
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My argument for this is he didn't do this because he was a racist.
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He did this because these were the kind of people that he could lure in with like money
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because there were people kind of outside of the system.
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They had prior issues, you know, for various reasons.
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But this is the spin right away in the show, right?
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We should basically just be able to say that he is a white supremacist.
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And if you look at the stats on some of the abusers,
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there's kind of an interesting thread here from John Rambo over on Twitter.
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More proof that the mental health issues affecting LGBTQ plus individuals is not related to social acceptance.
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So then you can argue, well, is there something with the lifestyle that's producing mental health illness?
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Is it that they have mental health illness and that's why they become part of thinking they're trans or gay or something like that?
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These are open questions, but it's still interesting.
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24 to 90 percent of lesbians report being psychologically abused by their partners.
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Sexual abuse by women partners has been reported by up to 50 percent of lesbians.
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46 percent of male homosexual reported childhood homosexual molestation as compared to only 7 percent of heterosexual men.
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22 percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1 percent of heterosexual women reported childhood homosexual molestation.
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99.8 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual teens will change their sexual orientation within 13 years.
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Two-thirds of men and women who were homosexual changed their orientation to heterosexual five years later.
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Gay men, who are 1.65 percent of the U.S. population, account for 63 percent of the country's syphilis cases.
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Gay men are 15 times more likely to have hepatitis B.
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In 2010, homosexuals were about 200 times more likely than everyone else to be diagnosed with HIV.
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Gay men are 10 to 15 times more likely than straight men to have eating disorders.
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40 to 60 percent of serial killers are homosexuals.
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Whoops, don't want to listen to that one, right?
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So now you know why they're angry that this was put in the LGBTQ bracket.
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Because, of course, they want to try to cover this up, right?
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Like, look at what Salon wrote about this show, for example.
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Ryan Murphy's monster, the Jeffrey Dahmer story, is an example of the brand undermining the mission.
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Well, of course, the mission is to, I don't know, shit on white people?
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Dahmer, however, about the series, they're complaining because it was like they focused so much on like the kind of the, you know,
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the scary aspect of him as the perpetrator and some of the drama with people around him and things like that.
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But to say here, Dahmer, however, was something else.
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A serial killer cannibal whose average appearance enabled him to integrate himself to Milwaukee's policemen.
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Glenda objects, using the cops to confirm that by looking at the kid's identification,
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they ignore her and help escort the boy back to the killer's apartment where Dahmer finishes murdering him after they leave.
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Glenda, you see, Salon writes, is a black woman living in a low-income community populated by other black folks along with Latinos and Asians.
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Dahmer may have stood out, but to the cops in Monster, whose actions are based on what happened,
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he's, and by the way, they exaggerated a lot in the series, but we don't have to get into that now,
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he's the one who needed protection, not the 17-year-old non-white gay man and underage boys who accepted an invitation into his apartment and never re-emerged.
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Using the Dahmer case to illustrate the deadliness of prejudicial policing and the government's unequal application of justice
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would seem to be the central undertaking in Monster.
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The main message is that this is like, you know, he's a psychopathic white killer,
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and therefore the message of the film or the series is that it's anti-white, right?
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But they're missing that because they don't think it was central enough.
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The Dahmer murders aren't just a horror show, or aren't just a horror show, Jackson explains.
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It's a metaphor for all the social ills that plagues our nation.
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the low value we assign our young black and brown men, especially if they happen to be gay.
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Yeah, they're definitely not being lifted out right now.
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White men are still definitely kind of at the forefront, you know what I mean?
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The fact that black and brown folks still don't have a voice,
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and when we do speak up, we're too often ignored.
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But, of course, we know the story is much different.
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There's actually, in fact, tons of black serial killers that you could do a TV show or movies on,
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It's usually a white guy who is the psychopath.
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It's Ted Kaczynski, maybe, or something like that.
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You know, there's like the same kind of guys over and over again, right?
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Rice of the Black Serial Killer, documenting a startling trend.
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And, of course, we've shown this one a couple of times when it comes to the mass shooters,
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which would kind of be good information to add in in this context.
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And that's just if you do a quick scan of the photos of the people of those who are performing mass shooters,
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you can, of course, see that the majority of them are non-white.
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But if you go to mass-shootings.info, you can click into all the different years
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You can click in on the images, too, and actually get more information about the case.
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But they will continue to ignore these kinds of things just to spin it negatively against white people.
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They just didn't – he was just sneaky enough, sly enough to hide what he was doing, right?
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And in the end, he was killed in prison, right?
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The other thing is he was allegedly – his family didn't file a police report,
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but he, as a little boy, was abused, sexually abused by a neighbor.
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And he was also neglected as a child in different ways.
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I'm not going to watch the series, but I did click on, like, the first few minutes,
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and right away was basically, like, a black woman, Black Lives Matter,
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focusing on the cops, arresting another black kid, you know,
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as if blacks never commit any crimes ever, right?
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And as you say, there's plenty of black serial killers.
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Black on white crime is through the roof higher than ever, right?
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But let's focus on this old story of Dahmer from, you know, a few decades ago now.
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It's the same old tired, like, the blonde villain, right?
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And even, like, you know, I showed it in the main image for the show,
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like, one of the cover art is, like, his – I mean, they kind of had a yellow tint on it,
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but, like, he's super white, you know, kind of thing.
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His blonde hair, like, golden, and his eyes are, like, kind of, like, you know,
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no pigmentation at all, essentially, in there, right?
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They spin it this way, and it helps to create that appearance that it's, like,
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it's only white people that are the real psychopaths, you know,
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