ColonizationMore historical erasure

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[–]NutterButterFlutterStill waving into the void 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

https://dublinpride.ie/our-story/

It's very clear that it's been edited when you see it on the website. They try to cover their asses by saying:

Note on image: This is a graphic that includes a couple of iconic images from different historical protests along with the obvious addition of a sign saying “Trans Rights Are Human Rights.”

Lets dispel with this fiction that Dublin Pride doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing.

[–]RippoffOfLoveSStraight | Overuses quotation marks 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Uhhhh that was their response to getting called out? Not just removing the picture entirely? Wow.

Yes, it's "obvious." But I don't think that's intentional. To my untrained eye, it looks like somebody unskilled made an honest attempt at making it look realistic.

But let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's suppose it was meant to look obvious. My first question is, "why do it?" I'm going to be extremely generous and assume once again for the sake of argument that they have a perfectly sound answer to that question. My next question: "Why oh why would you think that that would ever be perceived as a good look when your critics accuse you of trying to rewrite history???"

[–]Blackhalo 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Why oh why would you think that that would ever be perceived as a good look when your critics accuse you of trying to rewrite history???"

Why do they feel the need to alter history and how does that even help them?

[–]Lovebirds_fury 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They want to prove being trans was always a thing, and they were fighting on the frontlines. LGB were cowards and they saved the day.

I guess they are pathological narcissists so it makes sense they want to be the center of everything.

[–]Blackhalo 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they are pathological narcissists

Ah! That rings true to me.

[–]Virginia_Plain 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Looking on the Twitter feed, there is one person making the excuse that "It's a meme, it's designed to be altered," like it's fucking Advice Dog or whatever.

[–]RippoffOfLoveSStraight | Overuses quotation marks 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's ridiculous. Aren't memes supposed to be funny or at the very least a tad amusing? I'm not laughing. Is misinformation a meme? Also my last question in my previous comment still applies. These fucking guys 🤦

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How did they think it was in any way acceptable to edit a historical picture in order to change the content of a sign of a demonstrator to fit their own agenda? Shameful.