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I didn't say you were not allowed to be proud, I explained why straight pride (or white, or any other dominant group) is not the same thing and why you will be seen as a self-satisfied p***k if you make a point of vocalizing it. They're still your feelings, whatever they are.
So, being proud of the way I was born and voicing makes me a self satisfied p***k purely based on the way I am viewed by default by society that doesn't know me? Seems like a pretentious little notion you have there.
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No. Just because nobody openly sat down and said "Let's only talk about Starbelly issues!" does not mean that the existing channels are not already Starbelly TV. I really don't understand how you could read that hypothetical and follow it but still miss that.
Because in real life, all stations excluding BET are not white people TV. In fact, most networks go out of their way to avoid being seen as racially affiliated. And I cannot think of any network (nor can I find one on, and I have DirectTV with access to 900+ channels) that specifically caters to white crowds openly. Seems like if you want white media, you gotta stay in the closet about it, where as if you want black media, you've got BET, you want gay media you have Out!, LoGo, Oxygen, etc.
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Consciousness doesn't matter. Starbellies had the privilege of not thinking about the fact that they were making movies and shows about themselves only, and limiting starless to supporting, usually archetypal, roles in those stories.
Because it is perceived, not intended.
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Again, they can- and probably will- still make a stink and make their own channel, one that's now consciously all about Starbellies as opposed to the other 500 where it "kinda just happened". But that does not make those involved less colossal assholes for drawing false equivalence. Pushing people out of your sandbox and then pitching a fit when they play on their own is never going to be just or classy.
Or, that perception of exclusion goes too far, and people become so enthralled with the idea of "******** the majority" that they don't even realize that by setting two standards, they are still judging two people differently based on how they are born. Which is prejudiced. Of course, when you're prejudice against a group you perceive as prejudice, it becomes much easier to convince yourself that your exclusionary beliefs are justified.
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Nobody is giving minorities more rights
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I know I didn't advocate that in my post.
No, I guess not. You more so advocated social inequity rather than rights inequity. My bad.
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So I can only figure you somehow think you have less rights because nobody has made a parade for your straightness yet.
Yes and no. I mean, tax dollars do get put into gay pride parades as "social enrichment" where as tax dollars are put into shutting down white pride parades as "potentially racially charged events." But hey, the way tax dollars are spent isn't really reflecting anything anyways, right?
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You have the right to go to one or make one, nobody has said straight people can't do drag or whatever the hell you think it is that queer folk have that you don't. The right to do so does not necessarily mean you will be free from criticism, of course, but that's a pretty universal concept.
However, people in the name of equality have given acceptance to pride in one's heritage, but only if it was hated on in America at some point. Again, it is pretentious and prejudiced.
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But you know what? I am also kinda put off by your insistance on acting like because we all suffer all suffering is equal.
Right, because you've invented a system for measuring human suffering. Please. We don't suffer as any group smaller than the human species. If one of us suffers, we all suffer. To say that one suffers more because of how they are born doesn't take into account that the degree with which one suffers is not necessarily tied to the social groups they are part of. To divide our issues and say that "This group suffers this. You wouldn't know because you're not of that group/ thinking of that group." is just more pretentious and closed minded bullshit.
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No. Some groups do experience more s**t, some people do suffer more. Acknowledging that doesn't diminish the individual pain of a member of the majority, but insisting that everyone's suffering is the same, so everyone deserves the same things in the same ways same same same, does ignore the reality of Othered people
So the reality of "Othered" people is one of unshared suffering? Honestly, you're just being close minded, pretentious, and op[positional to a perceived norm. If you honestly can say that giving social acceptance to some groups, but think that social acceptance to others is unwarranted, that is exclusionary thinking. My stance is one of equality and open-mindedness. Seems those things aren't important to you as long as your groups are represented.