I couldn't help but marvel at Dan Savage's response to news that Anheuser-Busch was ending its support of St. Louis Pride -- which was dripping with sarcasm directed at activists who have long derided so-called "pinkwashing" by corporations:
I don't know if Dan and I think alike on so many things because we're the same age -- or in the same IQ range?(!) But the correct response to corporate support of LGBT events is and will always be this: TAKE YES FOR AN ANSWER!
Kudos to too-clever-by-half Bluesky user Junkyard Monk for taking the time to queersplain the situation to Dan (and me) -- he's not even getting what people thought was the problem quite right(!) -- confirming my belief that anything short of all corporations liquidating and donating 100 percent of the proceeds to trans women of color, NOTHING would appease these lunatics. (And let's be honest, that wouldn't work either.) I used to refer to them as "well-meaning activists," but after the past few elections I'm not so sure. I, for one, will take victory over sanctimony.
Question: Why should Anheuser-Busch -- or any business -- support Pride events when all they get is trashed by misguided people for being "opportunists" or worse?
2 comments:
100% agree with you and Dan.
Me too!
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