That the dude was closeted, and that is a hard place to exist, and that it would be nice to not be in a world where any closet is necessary at all. That’s paraphrased, you can find him on mastodon easy enough.
I don’t know if Takei meant that he thought the guy was gay, trans, queer, etc. or if he was just drawing a comparison between being in a kink closet and those closets.
In other words, Takei was showing compassion and the response that’s shown in this post was shitting on him for it. Kinda ironic tbh.
And it isn’t like Mr Takei doesn’t regularly skewer right wing public figures. That’s most of his posts. But he also tends to want everyone to have things better, just without harming others.
Makes sense. He understands what it’s like to be a public figure in the closet. He seems to be primarily driven by caring about his fellow human beings. And he definitely knows in a very painful way where hate and persecution of others leads.
There’s a time to hate on right wing people. It’s when they hurt people. The victim here wasn’t preaching hate, they ran for mayor of a town in Alabama as a Republican and seemed more concerned with local politics than culture war stuff. It’s not good that they’re a Republican, but when other Republicans drive someone like that to suicide over something that shouldn’t even be a scandal I’m far too busy being angry at those ones to be mad or smug about theoreticals I imagine
That the dude was closeted, and that is a hard place to exist, and that it would be nice to not be in a world where any closet is necessary at all. That’s paraphrased, you can find him on mastodon easy enough.
I don’t know if Takei meant that he thought the guy was gay, trans, queer, etc. or if he was just drawing a comparison between being in a kink closet and those closets.
In other words, Takei was showing compassion and the response that’s shown in this post was shitting on him for it. Kinda ironic tbh.
And it isn’t like Mr Takei doesn’t regularly skewer right wing public figures. That’s most of his posts. But he also tends to want everyone to have things better, just without harming others.
Makes sense. He understands what it’s like to be a public figure in the closet. He seems to be primarily driven by caring about his fellow human beings. And he definitely knows in a very painful way where hate and persecution of others leads.
There’s a time to hate on right wing people. It’s when they hurt people. The victim here wasn’t preaching hate, they ran for mayor of a town in Alabama as a Republican and seemed more concerned with local politics than culture war stuff. It’s not good that they’re a Republican, but when other Republicans drive someone like that to suicide over something that shouldn’t even be a scandal I’m far too busy being angry at those ones to be mad or smug about theoreticals I imagine