Have we lost a touch ?
I'm sorry this is depressing but I saw this comment on Facebook and it's taken over my whole brain and I just need to put it somewhere.
A politician posted about pride and a man left an angry comment, he was basically furious the politician had gone to Pride but had done nothing during the fuel protest.
And honestly he has a point...Why weren't more politicians posting then ? And wasn't the original Pride a protest? Why are we letting politicians attend Pride when they don't represent not just our rights and any of our rights?
Which lead me to thinking about the fuel protest and what a wasted opportunity it was, imagine if instead of Pride we'd joined the fuel protests? Is it not in part why we even have Pride every year? I know the majority of people wouldn't have wanted us there but wouldn't it have shown a unity to the actual people we're protesting against?
How many corporations are now taking part?
They want us divided and they're succeeding and it just sucks. We're stronger as a community than ever which I'm so happy about but as society... They could not have ignored all of us.
And now with pride at least some of them would've remembered that we were there, being our delightfully colourful selves protesting with them and impossible to ignore
But in the end the bigots took over, though I suppose in a way we would've done the same thing had we come into too hard.
Maybe I'm being just being idealistic but the idea literally won't go away so I'd love to get some other perspectives