excelsiorlef
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Is there even anyone here taking issue with the fact that they delayed the parade?
Everyone is taking issue with the fact that they had a silly demand which seemed to serve no real purpose and would only make the event more exclusive, which flies in the face of their message of inclusivity.
Treating police like some boogeyman and trying to bar their official presence from an event, instead of using said event to work with them is just extremely short-sighted and misguided IMO.
That's just sowing more seeds of distrust and resentment as far as I am concerned. Inclusivty doesn't end at the job fair.
I don't know enough about the other claims of LGBT black spaces being denied or erased by the organizers, so I will just take them at face value and consider it a win for the community.
It's pretty damn disgusting if they were denying certain groups stages or floats in recent years, and I can't imagine why they would in the first place.
The comment I replied to said "their actions at the Pride Parade"
Their actions was the sit in and the call for concessions.
I really doubt that post that I was directly replying to was about just the police. In fact they aren't even mentioned in it.
As it stands the police aren't going to be denied parade floats so that point is basically moot and an excuse to once again ignore all the good BLM does.
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