Steve Sailer periodically reminds us that the Coalition of the Oppressed has some cracks in it, most obviously the one between Muslims and feminists.
That came to mind the other day when I read this story about London’s Pride Parade, which took place last Saturday, July 1st.
The prouds were marching gaily through the capital, all dressed up in their best bondage leather and rainbow-themed dashikis, when suddenly it all came to a juddering halt.
Anxious calls rippled forward from the rear end of the parade. What was the holdup? Was it a counterdemonstration by bigoted homophobic religious fanatics?
Not exactly. It was climate-change loonies from an outfit named Just Stop Oil sitting and lying in the street to obstruct the parade.
Why? What beef do the eco-zealots have with the prouds? Let one of their spokes-loonies explain.
Quote from him, her, xim, zer, or them:
Pride was born from protest. It speaks to how far we’ve come as a community, that high polluting industries and the banks that fund them, now see Pride as a useful vehicle for sanitising their reputations, waving rainbow flags in one hand whilst accelerating social collapse with the other.
It is queer people, and particularly queer people of colour in the global south, who are suffering first in this accelerating social breakdown.
When Left meets Left.
— Bart Marcois (@bmarcois) July 1, 2023
Best quote: “It is queer people, and particularly queer people of colour in the global south, who are suffering first in this accelerating social breakdown.”
Just don’t ask how he arrived at those conclusions. https://t.co/tnZ6PNCyrv
I don’t quite get that last bit. “Queer people of colour in the global south“? What: homosexual Maoris?
Whatever. Plainly it’s the corporate sponsorship—the “pinkwashing“—that upsets the climate clowns. That’s the main thrust of the dispute.
For some reason they took special exception to the Coca-Cola float. After sitting down in front to stop it, they spray-painted the road surface a fabulous shade of pink.
“Things go better with Coke,“ was the jingle as I remember it. Not all things, apparently; not a Pride Parade when Just Stop Oil is out there trying to ban lubricants.
