Sorry, the executive director was happy? Could have fooled him - he claims he just signed the demands to keep the parade going.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...test-1.3663250
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"Pride Toronto never agreed to exclude police services from the Pride parade... We have had, and will continue to have, discussions with the police about the nature of their involvement as parade participants,"
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"Frankly, Black Lives Matter isn't going to tell us there's no more floats in the parade,"
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"None of us do"? I'm pretty sure you're in the minority in reacting to this situation positively. At least I hope so.
I'm not going to type out a wall of text, for once. I think it would be lost on you. The problem is taking an event that was meant to be about inclusiveness, creating divisiveness along racial lines, and telling the world "our grievance is more important than your celebration of community". As for what the Pride parade is supposed to be, there are reasonable points of disagreement on that - it's legitimate to say that it should be more subversive, that that's what's great about gay culture... Frankly, that sounds a lot like the pro-gay-rebelling-culture argument against gay marriage that peter12 was accused of trolling for putting out there in the now-locked Orlando thread, but I take the point. From the other side, it's absolutely ####ing fantastic that we've made progress to a point where families can bring their kids to the pride parade and leave no doubt in their minds that LGBT people are part of our community, that who they are is no better or worse than any other way of being. Gay people are everywhere in our community - in media, in classrooms, in trades, and yeah, in the police force, and they don't have to hide who they are anymore. That's worth celebrating. Whatever you want the Toronto Pride parade to
be, that's what it
is, and that's a good thing. BLM ####ed up a good thing.
Sorry, that won't get through the filter, but that's how I feel. I don't want to argue with you about it, it's clearly pointless and it seems really likely that you're just going to keep being a jerk.