For a community that has long been oppressed and silenced, us queer people need to make sure we continue to use our voices to assert our right for equality anytime it’s challenged or ignored. Companies like Chick-fil-A and eHarmony have felt the public backlash when they were unwilling to acknowledge or quickly ammend their contributions of inequity to LGBTQ+ people.
Calling out any discrimination is a must, but is cancelling entire companies and public figures who misstep an even more effective strategy to let the larger society know what is no longer tolerable? Even more importantly, are there any overlooked costs to the community and it’s people doing the cancelling?
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MarkyMarkNipple
Please, you guys would have cancelled years ago if he wasn’t generically hot.
drmiller
He makes some good points, not entirely sure I agree with all of them, but the essence is certainly there. “Let’s have conversations and talk about things instead of over reacting and getting aggressive.” Fine. Not a mind blowing, singular point, but okay. However, this just reeks of Aaron Schock. There’s no way that isn’t what he’s ultimately trying to foil. I would have preferred he addressed that head on, because the undertone is distracting…
judysdad
He’s talking about “queers”, not gay men or lesbians.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
This is the delerious dolt who has the sexual appeal of a Ken Doll was once pontificating about his imaginary “pretty privilege”. I have been blessed but chose to remain humble and appreciative…
Please find someone to author threads who isn’t on some obvious severe mind altering delusional causing substances…
nelsonpibe
this just reeks of Aaron Schock!!! is he ur friend??
IAMSONICE
Totally has partied with Adam Schock.
Man About Town
Is Adam Aaron’s twin?
Dick Mayhem
“How do you think we got Donald Trump?”
Oh man. I suggest a bit more introspection is warranted here by the privileged one.
The term “cancel culture” came out of the #metoo movement. It speaks of groups of people who decide to name public figures and companies, saying “I’m no longer willing to give you my dollars because your behaviour is directly against my interests.”
Cancelling is a natural response to continued abuse. It’s a community’s way of gathering together and drawing a line in the sand against bullying, against political manipulation, and against corporate machinations.
Is it clumsy? Yes, for right now. Can the discourse improve? You betcha. And Mr Privilege’s subtle form of shaming active diminishes empowerment.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
You forget to mention bugs, viruses and malware also!
iminheatlikeacat
“You forget to mention bugs, viruses and malware also!”
And that’s just the men…
Cam
Funny how every time Aaron Schock does something else stupid or anti-LGBT we get these hand wringing articles by lightweights trying to push the idea that nobody should be held responsible for being a bigot or causing damage to people.
If Starkist wants to buy ads on Laura Ingraham and she has pushed anti-LGBT and racist ideas, then suggesting I should somehow eagerly support them is not just idiotic, it means you are FORCING me to not support businesses that do things I like. Which is beyond idiotic.
Jared MacBride
Not sure who told him that shirt was a good look for a video.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Pretty certain it started as a table cloth at a Mexican restaurant…..
Jared MacBride
@PLAYSWELLWQITHOTHERS – Good call.
Mattster
I agree with Cam and Dick Mayhem.
When it comes to boycotts of consumer products, say Barilla pasta or Chick-Fil-a, it’s not as though we are having a “dialogue” with the company. As consumers we have choices whether to buy product A, or one of the many alternatives. Why buy the product whose owner has gone out of his way to spit in your face? Or uses $ from the sale to pay someone to spit in your face? Buying products should not involve participating in, or paying for, our own abuse.
This guy seems to want people to not get angry about getting spat in the face, or to do particularly anything about it. And to scold people who DO do something about it posting a video that says, in effect, “Stop taking any action when someone spits in your face! It’s’ going too far!”.
Also, his SHIRT should be cancelled.
Hdtex
Enough with this vacuous “influencer” shitbag. Seriously.
Man About Town
Sorry, but anyone who writes “Us queer people” and “the community and it’s people” is overwhelmingly stupid and should definitely be ignored.
Cam
It probably means he’s straight, but feels he is a part of the LGBT community because he used to be a fan of Scissor Sisters.
Apolodorus
This debate about “cancel culture” is pointless, exhausting and a red herring. People or companies who trip my wires are not entitled to my time, my money, my response or my patience. Neither are they entitled to a platform.
And if you disagree, you are free to do otherwise. But do stop telling me to calm down, reach out, be balanced and be less angry.
LumpyPillows
I think every person who demands someone be canceled should also be investigated to. It’s only fair.
gymmuscleboy
It has taken us gays a while to realise that YES, we are prone to drama and overreaction.
Cam
Oh PLEASE, we are the ONLY community that agonizes over whether or not to boycott companies that actively target us for harm.
If Chik Fil Et was donating to the Ku Klux Klan, do you think there would be any media by black writers talking about how mean it is for black people to boycott them? And media also wouldn’t frame their racism as “Religious Freedom”.
It’s only the LGBT community that has fools that somehow act like we deserve this bigotry and need to tolerate it.
michael379
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