Pandering to this cunt and his pal Redacted
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I know it has been mentioned here before but the rush by corporations to jump on the LGBT pride thing. In fact, whatâs worse is the LGBT community not seeming to have a problem with it. This is despite the fact that widespread discrimination in the same corporations on the basis of sexual orientation has gone on in the past and undoubtedly still is to a certain degree.
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Exploitation of the LGBT brand, thatâll be the next thing
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Thereâs significant pushback from some of the hardliner elements in the community. Theyâre also pissed off that they are being pushed back to the end of the parade to facilitate big business essentially advertising.
Money talks. But it donât sing and dance and it donât walk.
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Does it mince?
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No.
Forever in jeans shorts
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And waving a rainbow flag
STATEMENT FROM QUEER ACTION IRELAND REGARDING PRIDE ALTERNATIVE 2019
2 HOURS AGO ¡ PUBLIC
Queer Action Ireland regret that we cannot conciously participate in Dublin Pride 2019, even in an oppositional radical bloc, as we have done in previous years.
The participation of Gardai in uniform in this yearâs parade is in direct opposition to the liberatory principles of Pride, which was established 50 years ago; initially in response to police brutality that was directed towards the LGBTQ+ community of New York City, and then broadened out internationally. The police continue to target LGBTQ+ people, sex workers, migrant and other ethnic minority people in Ireland today. Just this week, the Gardai have arrested migrant sex workers on both sides of the country.
Cops marching in Pride is not a sign of progress, but rather a representation of the further cooptation of our struggle. While police will make concessions and recruit from our queer and migrant poplulations, their role remains the same. We in Queer Action Ireland view the police force as a weapon that is designed for the specific purpose of keeping us down. The police are not just workers in uniform and they were not created to protect and serve the ordinary population. In fact, the idea of cops neutrally enforcing âthe lawâ, when the law itself has never been neutral, is an illusory idea.
The origins of the police lies in their creation to protect the system by imposing order on working class communities, breaking-up strikes and repressing workers. The idea of âGuardians of the Peaceâ means guardians of the peace for those who rule over us. This is why we see cops supporting evictions or protecting wealthy land hoarders and landlords, and itâs why we saw them attack people in the Take Back the City movement last year, while protecting private security forces who assaulted housing activists.
We cannot march in a parade that welcomes RTE as an official media sponsor; a broadcaster who welcomed transphobic hate speech onto the air not months ago, and whose commitment to so-called âbalancedâ reporting has led to the perpetuation of dangerous ideas and rhetoric around the island of Ireland, that endangers the lives of the queer community.
We cannot march in a parade that so readily welcomes corporations who see our community as no more than a marketing demographic; who sell our data to political parties and other companies for profit; who exploit us all and oppress LGBTQ and migrant workers; who take our homes and sell them to the highest bidder; who refuse to provide adequate rights to their workers or recognise a trade union; and who rent out homes stolen from the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, or shut down the bank accounts of Palestinian Solidarity organisations.
We cannot march in a parade with establishment political parties who dress up in rainbows yet oversee the for-profit racist detention centres that they call direct provision, which makes lots of money for their ruling class. Only this month we learned that Sylva Tukula, a trans woman that they housed in an all male centre who died last year, was buried in secret, without telling her friends and without it being known where she is buried, or how she died. Nor can we march with government parties whose decision to end the Irish Navyâs ability to engage in search and rescue work will inevitably mean thousands of more deaths at sea of those who seek refuge. Nor can we march with a government whose department of justice carries out deportations, and who issued a refusal form, in April of this year, to a lesbian seeking asylum from persecution. Nor can we march in a parade with a semi-state company who perpetuates bigotry by driving around with an advertisement for a fascist one month, and a rainbow the next.
We cannot march in a parade that comprises itself of all of this, and then purely symbolically sets its theme as âRainbow Revolutionâ, an empty gesture. This is insulting to the millions of queer people whose shoulders we stand on, who struggled before us for every right we have today, while never needing the sponsorship of any big corporations to achieve their wins. This hypocrisy speaks volumes as to how detached Dublin Pride is from the fight for queer liberation. It has become a shadow of what it once was, co-opted by capitalists who hope to assimilate and profit off the queer community, reducing us to no more than statistics in their empty marketing campaigns.
We invite and encourage all queers who refuse to accept this sanitised and assimilated version of Pride, to meet us at the Rosie Hackett Bridge on June 29th from midday at 12pm, for a celebration of what Pri
Where is the evidence of widespread discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by large corporations?
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I think these lad(ie)(s) are anti Israel too but not sure how Palestine treats its LGBT community. I think Israel is quite gay friendly if you are not a Palestine homosexual obviously.
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Billionaire Ed Sheeran advertising Heinz ketchup, nearly as bad as fizzy drinks in fueling the obesity crisis
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Druggies with babies, a sad business.
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Fucking arsehole cunts. 450 fines and on ye go, do an auld course.
Fuck them.
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Please move this to the Cork weirdo/sicko thread where it belongs.
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Probably as much of a sentence as could be given for public intoxication.
I would like to think that social services would be all over those cunts.
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Telesales workers???
Go easy on them. Having not done the parental course they were unaware that getting binned while looking after an infant was a big no no.
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