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Five@slrpnk.net to LGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 years ago

Queer Activists Are Making BDS a Key Question of Pride This Year

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Queer Activists Are Making BDS a Key Question of Pride This Year

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Five@slrpnk.net to LGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 years ago
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LGBTQ people are pushing Pride events to reject pinkwashing, endorse BDS and show solidarity with Palestine.
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      solidarity? what’s that?

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      Did you read the article?

      No, we are not.

      The article describes multiple queer activists and groups supporting BDS as a component of Pride.

      protests outside of LGBTQ+ rights do NOT belong here

      The article also describes the direct link between BDS and Pride.

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          me i do i think it’s cool that these leaders are fighting for human rights across the gamut and i appreciate reporters that identify and celebrate this action

          solidarity

          in the fight for a free Palestine the “your identity would get you killed in Gaza” has been used as a pro-Israel pro-genocide weapon and erasure of of queer Palestinians. it is objectively good for queer leadership to align itself with other instances of human rights activism.

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          Anyone participating in this discussion in good faith

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              you’re not.

              encyclopedia britannica definition of “intersectionality”

              involvement between feminism and pride

              involvement between BLM and pride and another

              involvement between the anti war movement and pride

              involvement between the civil rights movement and pride

              and there are more. you should ask yourself why you think you have the right to pick and choose what movements Pride relates itself with.

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                  some of these movements you deride are as old as or older than you, and all of them have been mutually beneficial.

                  the “disingenuous and sickening” position is yours, unfortunately. i don’t have the resources to help you through this but i hope you can start to learn from this conversation.

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          Vastly more people care about the article more than your uninformed opinion that contradicts reality

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      1000004669

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        Goddamnit Patrick, transgender is not a noun.

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      “I got mine. Fuck you.”

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          war between Israel and Palestine

          Not a war. It’s a genocide, and it’s Israel that is perpetrating it.

          Surviving the AIDS crisis, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, “conduct unbecoming” in the military, strung up on fence posts in Wyoming, public arrests, family disenfranchisement, discrimination in housing, marriage, legal rights…just getting started

          Cool. And you’ll get absolutely nowhere with reactionary sentiment like “fuck you, I got mine” as a part of your movement. The people that want to allow the genocide to continue are the same people actively working to take those rights away from LGBTQ+ people, and they’re not gonna let up just because reactionary twats like you think it’s okay. Not to mention the fact that the rest of the LGBTQ+ community doesn’t even have all of the rights you mentioned, but that’s none of your concern, I’m sure.

          The fact is that rights movements and struggles for social justice will continue to largely ignore backward sentiment like yours, as it is necessary for the progress of all of the groups that struggle for them and your attitude toward people other than yourself would only lead to an erosion of those rights.

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      Yes, we are,

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