| Comment | >Self inflicted segregation
This feels like an uncharitable way to describe... well... literally everything. I went to a video game conference a while back. No table top games. No card games. No sports. Does it create division by celebrating one thing? Nah. It's because it's about that one thing.
Okay, maybe private conferences are different from public events? So why might events like Pride be valuable.
Well, the qualities it celebrates are the same qualities that have caused decades of discrimination, hate, and prejudice. These folks have been denied rights. They've been bullied. They've been harassed, mocked, and victimized for *existing*. This stuff a historical hangover. It's ongoing. A friend of a friend and his husband got abused in Edinburgh for just walking down the street. It's shit like that make people hide who they are.
Pride is just a short celebration that these folk exist and are proud of that part of their identity. I simply don't see how that causes more division. |
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