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[icecold1983]

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You and the rest of people on the thread are missing the point. Pride started as a political movement for civil rights, it has nothing to do with actual pride. Deals, colorful logos, rainbow capitalism and pride parades are artifacts of that movement, not the point. If any lgbt person nowadays can live normally without fearing backlash from family members or showing affection in public it's because of decades of fight for those rights, and even in the west this is far from a solved problem, I personally talked to people that weren't so lucky. You see cases of truly intolerant people all the time (and I'm not talking about not liking a rainbow flag, I'm talking about pulling up with a car in front of you to say you're an aberration, like what happened just this last week with a YouTube comedian called Brandon Rogers because he was playing a female character and the dude thought he was trans). There are active attacks coming from politicians everyday, using lgbts vs religious values as a point of division to create outrage and gain political power with a "us vs them" approach, and this is in the west, nevermind the situation in many eastern countries, where often the problem is a literal life or death situation.

Forget the american culture wars, woke vs chuds, pride parades or rainbow capitalism. Those are distractions. The problems across the globe are real and that's why I believe the pride movement is still important and will still be for the foreseeable future.

I havent missed anything. These events have nothing to do with civil rights. Nor do other things like coming out partys. All these ridiculous events do is further alienate you from the people whose minds you want to change.

No one is entitled to respect from others. No one owes you understanding. The alphabet people think they are special and should be exempt from the treatment all types of people receive for any number of reasons. Im all for everyone having access to the same rights. The problem is you people want rights that no one has ever had, nor should they. It doesnt help that the types of shit yall promote are actively harmful to society. It shouldnt be surprising that a lot of people feel a certain type of way about yall.