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Blakely Thornton

Pop culture anthropologist, comedian, and host of the podcast Yestergays with Justin Sylvester, named to Out100's 2024 list of LGBTQ+ influencers.

Jul 31, 2026

Corey Higgs
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20:40
I
20:41
think Black people need to take back that and like pierce the veil on the fact that they were positioned in this thing to create everything from shopkeepers to the model minority myth.
20:51
A lot of people from other countries who had advanced degrees being like, well, they're thriving.
20:57
Yeah, they're thriving because you wanted them to, to create further animosity between us and them, but you're still going to mistreat them.
21:03
And it's like, well, you're Indian or Chinese, but you're a doctor, or you're a store owner, or you're a professional, where you're killing us for going to school.
21:11
So then we have an animosity towards them as well, but that's built by the power trying to keep themselves in the pole position.

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I think
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it's like, it's so good at cringe comedy.
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... are less free than we are.
29:29
I always say capitalism cannot be our highest order of operations.
29:33
Like, you cannot be willing to s- shit everyone down the river in honor of, like, more stuff, and I think that's what, like, the thesis is, is like, oh, in protection of my ability to gain more stuff, let's shit away human rights and female bodily autonomy and gay marriage [laughs] and abortion, all 'cause, 'cause what? 'Cause you want, like, the chance to maybe buy a boat one day that's 10 feet bigger? Newsflash, baby, you own nothing.
29:59
That's, that's why MAGA is so concerned with, like, owning the libs, 'cause you don't own anything else, baby, you rent.
30:05
You're a renter.
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So they wanna browbeat, you know, drag queens and trans kids, and Black gay men and gay people.
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Everybody's a, everybody's a little gay.
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I think so much of this has to do with, like, shame.

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