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September 21, 2016 | WTF | Lex Jurgen | 0 Comments
When nobody was looking over the summer, the Toronto Gay Pride parade was shut down for half-an-hour by a Black Lives Matters protest group that blocked the parade route. Being Canada, the BLM protestors were merely slightly less white than the super white gay people marching. Drake is the darkest shade Canada will go, and his mom still blesses the challah on Friday evenings.
The BLM group refused to move out of the way until the Pride organizers signed a piece of paper agreeing to BLM’s nine demands. This included forevermore banning police officers, even gay police officers, from the Pride parade. Also, confessing that gay people haven’t always been so kind to black gay people as evidenced by lots of shit that goes on in clubs most people have never been to. There were seven other things mostly regarding who was responsible for dishes that week and who was playing their music too loudly during finals.
The Toronto Pride group issued a super long apology letter, admitting to being horribly racist themselves. Nobody’s jumping onboard your whole world is homophobic train if you can’t acknowledge the whole world is also racist.
[We apologize] emphatically and unreservedly for (Pride’s) role in deepening the divisions in our community, for a history of anti-blackness and repeated marginalization of the marginalized within our community that our organization has continued.
Marginalizing the marginalized doesn’t seem possible. That’s why it’s so super insidious.
Except for the apology, Pride kind of ignored the remaining eight points of the agreement. Now BLM is pissed because Toronto Pride director, Mathieu Chantelois, who conveniently was given a super gay name at birth, was openly bragging about how he had signed the BLM manifesto just to get the protestors to move the fuck out of the street. No shit. C’mon, Black Lives Matter. You fell for that old trick? You can’t blackmail people into an agreement then tantrum when they don’t live up to it. Especially a people clad in brilliantly colored crotchless male-panties.
Nobody wins when supremely self-assured protest groups clash with one another over who’s been more oppressed. Ideally you unite into one Megazord of victimization. People will listen when you’re holding a giant plastic sword. Also the Chinese will have a mass production knockoff by the end of the week. Can’t we all just get along?