The Tavernkeep Says Hello

He was born in the 20s. The man died in 1970. His samurai style sepukku wasn't An Action Of Its Time. He was dressed like a solider of WWII, a draft He dodged. It was the Seventies. The war was long over. Sepukku was not a regular occurrence and was instead him referencing back to his very old, very nationalistic ideals of masculinity. He was larping. He was foundational to the current new-right movements in Japan.

Surely, of all the people in the world who might ignore the innately fascistic ideals of Yukio Mishma's life and work, Tumblr-Dot-Com wouldn't. Tumblr-Dot-Com loves dogging on far-right ideology. It's our national pastime.

But NO! I look up the tag for this man and we're out here cooing over pictures of him with a cat? Calling him cunty? Thirsting over pictures of him cosplaying Saint Sebastian??

I know this is the site where we piss on the poor but holy shit, you all.

Anyway I need to do something productive with this post so you all should watch this video by Ben Hoerman

Very good video. Made me feel like I wasn't losing my fucking mind with a fake choukokkashugi strawman of a otherwise beloved author I had apparently dreamt up in a fever.

I'm not gonna harp on about how many of us have sanitized Japanese history in our minds, making us susceptible to adoring the works of even their most blatant fascists. Even though it's true. That's just a very well known argument and I couldn't add anymore than an extra voice in the chorus. I am going to mention that... maybe, to many of us, especially on a website like this... maybe we have difficulty conflating that someone so blatantly queer could also be so blatantly fascist.

Because a queer person can be a fascist. Even an artist. Even a really good artist. Even one you like. We are not immune to buying into reactive and harmful beliefs. To exclusion, and hatred, and infighting. I'm not. You're not. Being queer does not absolve us from being human beings, and sometimes we are fucking cruel to each other. We do, however, have agency over ourselves and our actions. We are susceptible to shit like this, but we aren't helpless to it.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

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