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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I both agree and disagree.
I have the most trouble wrapping my head around those, like Zulu most recently, who seemed to just need to be outraged by BLM without much thought. I think you've stated your issue extremely well and it's a broader one, but I'm hearing a lot of "How could they do this at Pride?" Sort of stuff, which tells me immediately that those people A. have no idea why BLM was even there and didn't bother to look into it, and B. don't really know/care much about the history of Pride at all. What they were protesting for (aside from the police float) were very real issues facing the LGBTQ community but still a few people tunnel visioned on the police thing.
Ironically, the people who think BLM tried to "ruin" Pride with their protest/activism might be the same people a fair selection of the LGBTQ community believe ruined Pride by taking all of the politics out of it and making it a corporate family thing.
It just seems like something that could use a boost of awareness and should be a serious discussion amongst the LGBTQ community about the problem of racism within has been discarded, and we got another conversation about BLM and the police which is fine, but seems like a stretch in this scenario. But the media wants what it wants.
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90% of BLM is the black community vs. the police, so nobody should be surprised that this becomes the dominating theme when they become involved. Also, this particular demand is jarring as every other demand was intended to be inclusive. This particular one was intended to be exclusive, and given the contextual history of BLM, was pretty much guaranteed to garner the headlines.
You can sit there and blame the media all you want - I think this is exactly what BLM wanted. They're the cause of this focus, not the media.