I agree with your point, but I feel like BLM has proven that you can make the wording simple enough for a child to understand and the “but it doesn’t include me, a straight cisgender white person!” crowd still willfully misinterpret it.
Didn’t “Black Lives Matter” originally begin as “Black Lives Matter Too”? I feel like that’s simple enough and if we used it today, then at least some of the dumbasses would shut up about all the “White/Blue/All Lives Matter” BS.
I think the best way is to somehow keep it as simple as possible but also make it so glaringly obvious that to say that you’re opposed just comes off as outright stupid/evil. Though unfortunately I’m afraid that won’t stop most people today.
Honestly, you are depressingly correct :( but even so, misinterpretation, wilful or not, is only part of the reason I wish we’d go back to Liberation instead of Pride. I know the name doesn’t have to dictate the goals, but I feel like we lost sight of the movement when we made marriage equality the end-all-be-all, and there’s been such an abandonment of it since 2015. We’re not there for our trans and nonbinary siblings anyway, because gay men “got ours,” so to speak. A lot has improved in the last 60 years, but I wish the queer community still had the community part of things like we used to
I agree with your point, but I feel like BLM has proven that you can make the wording simple enough for a child to understand and the “but it doesn’t include me, a straight cisgender white person!” crowd still willfully misinterpret it.
What a great example. Wordsmithing for fascists is a fruitless enterprise.
Didn’t “Black Lives Matter” originally begin as “Black Lives Matter Too”? I feel like that’s simple enough and if we used it today, then at least some of the dumbasses would shut up about all the “White/Blue/All Lives Matter” BS.
I think the best way is to somehow keep it as simple as possible but also make it so glaringly obvious that to say that you’re opposed just comes off as outright stupid/evil. Though unfortunately I’m afraid that won’t stop most people today.
Honestly, you are depressingly correct :( but even so, misinterpretation, wilful or not, is only part of the reason I wish we’d go back to Liberation instead of Pride. I know the name doesn’t have to dictate the goals, but I feel like we lost sight of the movement when we made marriage equality the end-all-be-all, and there’s been such an abandonment of it since 2015. We’re not there for our trans and nonbinary siblings anyway, because gay men “got ours,” so to speak. A lot has improved in the last 60 years, but I wish the queer community still had the community part of things like we used to
But at least they make it easy to identify them.
Which doesn’t help much 😐