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[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

“You think about what Pride has become in Philadelphia for instance – the streets are being flooded with alcohol or corporate sponsorships, and over-the-top performances,” Stephens wrote. “This is all a facade that is hiding a lot of pain that our community is still dealing with. While we party, some people can’t even afford to get into the events. While we’re partying and celebrating, there are people who are living at or under the poverty line, who are suffering with all sorts of inequities in every key area of our lives. That’s a problem, and we’re not addressing that in a way that I and other people are deeming appropriate.”

Another thing to add to the pile of things we as gay people in a lgb rights movement have to fix, poverty.

[–][deleted] 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Speaking for a left-leaning POV (won't say im a complete leftist, definitely not the intersectional kind) I have noticed that the LGBTQ+ movement attracts upper class more than working class. I have noticed that LGBT+ communities are usually very bourgeois. People who complain about "neoliberalism" are actual idpol obsessed neolibs cosplaying as leftists

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is extremely accurate but the ideology also attracts poor people and degenerate weirdos who want leftist politics as a handout because they can't figure out how to participate in society. They use the label of leftism but push far right hierarchy based on made up genders.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is also very true and well-put and it totally summarizes the two groups I’ve seen at the helm of this.

The “non-privileged” people who get platformed are the swindlers with little else to offer who use the opportunity to scam people, and very poorly represent their communities.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's surprisingly synergistic how well liberalism meshes with these types of faux leftists. I think they are largely the same people it's just a difference of wealth and social status. The rich ones just generate a framework of tokenism to exploit workers and get away with it by putting up BLM and trans flags and the poor ones run into the framework to accept the social clout granted by that liberal class.

Meanwhile the working class is pushed down as their wealth is extracted towards the rich. Anyone who speaks up is accused of being a racist or transphobe... And unfortunately the conservative-right is also fanning that culture war flame. This causes actual racists and bigots to be elevated and thrown in with populists so everything gets dismissed at once.

[–]slushpilot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

u/firemonke8 brought up the word "bourgeois" and that's exactly the right way to frame this. It's derived from marxism, whether intentionally through academic theories, or purely by playing on social group dynamics:

This is a process that hijacks individual empathy and uses it to discriminate and scapegoat others, in the service of the "oppressed". You just need to continuously redefine who is oppressed, and use that to build "allyship". You think Lenin himself was oppressed? No way! But it worked to get himself and his thug buddies in power, didn't it!