See that’s what bothers me about pride as well. We rather focus our efforts on something super fucking petty like some boomer saying dumb shit on Twitter instead of, you know, literal death penalties in other countries.
I am in a country facing life and death for my biology. I am also cheering on people in privileged countries like yours who want to have over-the-top pride parades because it is something I hope my country can experience someday (minus the rainbow capitalism). So no I really do not understand the POV of someone who has something amazing that I wish I could have and hates it.
But we’re not doing anything to help you. We’re just rallying up and down the street with our rainbow banners and corporate sponsorships, not giving a flying fuck about the rest of the world’s pride.
Love and pride are not limited resources. I would say grassroots pride celebration are big and bold because other places won’t allow of them. It’s celebrating the freedom to express yourself and love who you love openly. One celebration isn’t taking away from the lack of another, if anything it’s bringing attention to the queer community and how important the right to existence is. Of course it would be ideal for all the corporate overlords to put the money they spend on pride marketing into political action in the countries lacking queer rights but that’s not an option we have. It’s not like pride is a limited currency we are spending on ourselves and keeping from our oppressed lgbtqa+ community.
We rather focus our efforts on something super fucking petty like some boomer saying dumb shit on Twitter instead of, you know, literal death penalties in other countries.
well, for one thing many of these “boomers” have the power to change the laws of this country (or to influence social feelings toward queer people) and in their ideal world want the death penalty for queer people; and for another, you’re not going to find people who object to the ongoing oppression of queer people in the US and think it isn’t fucked up that Afghanistan executes gay people or whatever, so… ironically you’re doing the twitter stereotype of making up a person to get mad at here. i don’t think this describes literally any person of significance in the queer community
You’re also making up a person with your “changing the laws” via the power of boomers tweets.
you’ve pretty glaringly misread my post if you think that’s what i said. my point here is–i think pretty unambiguously–that we have no shortage of “boomers” who tweet and are in positions of power to directly influence the law. these are not the mutually exclusive groups you present, or seem to think them as being.
See that’s what bothers me about pride as well. We rather focus our efforts on something super fucking petty like some boomer saying dumb shit on Twitter instead of, you know, literal death penalties in other countries.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Dr. King
And using that quote means that this mean tweet is more of an injustice than your situation. Do you see my frustration in pride now?
I am in a country facing life and death for my biology. I am also cheering on people in privileged countries like yours who want to have over-the-top pride parades because it is something I hope my country can experience someday (minus the rainbow capitalism). So no I really do not understand the POV of someone who has something amazing that I wish I could have and hates it.
Because you deserve it more.
But we’re not doing anything to help you. We’re just rallying up and down the street with our rainbow banners and corporate sponsorships, not giving a flying fuck about the rest of the world’s pride.
Love and pride are not limited resources. I would say grassroots pride celebration are big and bold because other places won’t allow of them. It’s celebrating the freedom to express yourself and love who you love openly. One celebration isn’t taking away from the lack of another, if anything it’s bringing attention to the queer community and how important the right to existence is. Of course it would be ideal for all the corporate overlords to put the money they spend on pride marketing into political action in the countries lacking queer rights but that’s not an option we have. It’s not like pride is a limited currency we are spending on ourselves and keeping from our oppressed lgbtqa+ community.
well, for one thing many of these “boomers” have the power to change the laws of this country (or to influence social feelings toward queer people) and in their ideal world want the death penalty for queer people; and for another, you’re not going to find people who object to the ongoing oppression of queer people in the US and think it isn’t fucked up that Afghanistan executes gay people or whatever, so… ironically you’re doing the twitter stereotype of making up a person to get mad at here. i don’t think this describes literally any person of significance in the queer community
You’re also making up a person with your “changing the laws” via the power of boomers tweets.
Personally, I don’t care what happens in the US. It’s a third-world country and will continue to remain as such.
you’ve pretty glaringly misread my post if you think that’s what i said. my point here is–i think pretty unambiguously–that we have no shortage of “boomers” who tweet and are in positions of power to directly influence the law. these are not the mutually exclusive groups you present, or seem to think them as being.
Where are you from? In my country, we had a referendum on equality, likewise did other democratic countries, such as Ireland and Taiwan.
These countries already show that the Boomers are an inherent minority, and they lack the numbers and political power to change this.