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Apparently Mr Ginsberg was a friend to young men. And not in a good way:

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/allen-ginsberg-pedophilia...



The Southern Poverty Law Center has characterized it as catering to "intellectual wing of white nationalist movement" wrt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_(magazine)

Everything in that article might be true, but I'd use a different source.


Same could be said for the SPLC.


This is incorrect.


Mr Ginsberg was known to inappropriately start up the exposed genitals now and then

source: people who saw it


Well, yeah... If you read this poem, it's right there on the surface. I see no reason to defend the author's character--the text is what it is.


There are wonderful texts by people who didn't rape minors or advocate for its legalization(although arguably the latter is an opinion, while the former is a crime).

Just sayin'


> There are wonderful texts by people who didn't rape minors or advocate for its legalization(although arguably the latter is an opinion, while the former is a crime).

Of course there are. Apologies if I triggered you?




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