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    I am fine with people being gay or whatever, do your thing but every June I just grow more and more tired. Why do the alphabet people get an ENTIRE MONTH dedicated to them? We have to sit here and watch corporations and brands pander to them by changing their logos to rainbows and peddling out gay-positive commercials. Everywhere I look there is a rainbow and everything becomes homophobic overnight because people don't wanna deal with it or participate in it. If a company doesn't throw up a rainbow, they are automatically deemed homophobic like these people are in some sort of cult or something.

    I still think it is funny that brands and companies won't sport the rainbow on Twitter when their account is in the middle east. Like that is where gay folks actually need support and still have to fight for their rights. Goes to show this isn't about supporting the LGBTXYZ, it is about money and profits.

    Just wanted to rant a bit. Just sick of seeing people get their celebrations, their time to shine, their handouts, and their appreciation while black folks are left at the bottom of the pile. Only once every 4 years we seem to matter. Ya'll know when that is.
     

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    I am fine with people being gay or whatever, do your thing but every June I just grow more and more tired. Why do the alphabet people get an ENTIRE MONTH dedicated to them? We have to sit here and watch corporations and brands pander to them by changing their logos to rainbows and peddling out gay-positive commercials. Everywhere I look there is a rainbow and everything becomes homophobic overnight because people don't wanna deal with it or participate in it. If a company doesn't throw up a rainbow, they are automatically deemed homophobic like these people are in some sort of cult or something.

    I still think it is funny that brands and companies won't sport the rainbow on Twitter when their account is in the middle east. Like that is where gay folks actually need support and still have to fight for their rights. Goes to show this isn't about supporting the LGBTXYZ, it is about money and profits.

    Just wanted to rant a bit. Just sick of seeing people get their celebrations, their time to shine, their handouts, and their appreciation while black folks are left at the bottom of the pile. Only once every 4 years we seem to matter. Ya'll know when that is.
    I wouldn‘t care about rainbow month if it wasn’t targeting our children. When cereal boxes start having rainbows, cartoons, etc that’s when I have to call foul. We should not be trying to spark up sex conversations with kids for any reason. Let them have their innocence.
     

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    I wouldn‘t care about rainbow month if it wasn’t targeting our children. When cereal boxes start having rainbows, cartoons, etc that’s when I have to call foul. We should not be trying to spark up sex conversations with kids for any reason. Let them have their innocence.
    This part. Man does it make my skin crawl. Every time I see trans crap being pushed in children's books and cartoons, I get heated. They are kids, let them be kids!!! There is no reason a 5-year-old needs to be wondering if he should chop his weiner off like wtf!

    I feel like I grew up in a different time. I was allowed to be a kid and my parents made sure I had that up until I was a teen. These days? Kids are being forced to grow up before they are even 10! How sad is that?
     

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    The closest thing Black people had that rivaled the level of actual support that LGBT constantly gets outside of and especially during Pride month (June) was businesses pretending to care about #BlackLivesMatter doing the height of the 2020 protests after George Floyd was inhumanely murdered in cold blood. You immediately saw #BlackLivesMatter and #SupportBlackBusinesses plastered on nearly every business page as businesses performatively showed their phony concern about racism. That was temporary of course.

    And now that the heat from 2020 seemed to die down and Jim Crow Joe Biden replaced Trump, #BlackLives suddenly don't matter anymore and all of these same exact businesses are now too busy telling people to support and donate to Ukraine, donate to LGBTQ+ organizations, support Asian and AAPI businesses, and support white woman-owned businesses.

    Black people spend 500+ years under profound, brutal oppression and we still get nothing but ignored, taken advantage of, and met with opposition and microaggressions at best. Meanwhile, a privileged white LGBTQ person can claim they were merely "misgendered" and "bullied" and suddenly the whole world stops and pushes mountains for them at the expense of nearly everyone else.
     

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    This part. Man does it make my skin crawl. Every time I see trans crap being pushed in children's books and cartoons, I get heated. They are kids, let them be kids!!! There is no reason a 5-year-old needs to be wondering if he should chop his weiner off like wtf!

    I feel like I grew up in a different time. I was allowed to be a kid and my parents made sure I had that up until I was a teen. These days? Kids are being forced to grow up before they are even 10! How sad is that?
    I like what Bmick#8 said "what happened to when you didn't even know your teacher's first name".

    This new age is terrible.
     

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    I like what Bmick#8 said "what happened to when you didn't even know your teacher's first name".

    This new age is terrible.
    They call this "progress"... I call it de-evolution. They are ruining people before they even get a chance, as little children. It is sickening.