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It’s Time to Cancel Pride Month
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Recently, a nasty Pride Month meme was shared by a single woman of my acquaintance, who commonly complains that there are no good men out there, on social media:

I wouldn’t have even bothered to notice, as this is just one more in an endless series of social media items making the rounds. But when it was shared several dozen times, it struck me that the attitude behind this obnoxious bit of provocation is almost mainstream. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: America Is Destined for Dictatorship)

What it demonstrates is that there’s a backlash to the backlash. Or, put another way, the pattern of never-ending escalation is, well, escalating.

Because it’s not just middle-aged corporate employees with unsatisfying personal lives pushing the rainbow flag down everyone’s throats. Here’s somebody a whole lot more consequential:

And don’t think for one second that people like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink arrogating to themselves the power to “force behavior” is just a lot of hot air. The conspiracy theorists turned out to be right on this one.

You’re seeing it all around you this month.

Ordinary Americans never voted for Pride Month. Ordinary Americans were perfectly happy to ignore it without much complaint, because what the gay community asked for was tolerance — and tolerance isn’t much of an ask at the end of the day. (RELATED: Glamour UK Introduces Pregnant Trans Man as Cover Model for Pride Month)

Have your Gay Pride parade. Just don’t ask us to show up. So long as we’re not affected by any of it in a way that disrupts our lives, so long as it’s none of our business, we’re good.

Except we aren’t good. Because the vast majority of us had no idea what was really going on here. Now we do. As my colleague at RVIVR.com, Chris Butler, wrote over the weekend:

Public school teachers adorn their classrooms with LGBTQ décor and convert their classrooms into gay nightclubs. Teachers on TikTok brag that they coach preschoolers about gender and sexuality.

This week a teacher in California instructed students about sex toys and anal sex. An Idaho high school banned a senior from graduating with his class. His crime? He said “boys are boys, and girls are girls. There is no in between.”

Dallas City employees must use preferred pronouns on the job or else risk termination.

Worst of all, public schools offer graphic pornography to children and promote pronouns and puberty blockers.

We don’t know the long-term consequences of liberals remaking society. But between 2017 to 2022 the number of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria tripled. They’ve only just begun.

Tolerance is a bait-and-switch game. Herbert Marcuse, the Frankfurt School communist, wrote a 1965 essay titled “Repressive Tolerance,” which turned out to be the source of cancel culture in America. In it, he wrote:

In the interplay of theory and practice, true and false solutions become distinguishable—never with the evidence of necessity, never as the positive, only with the certainty of a reasoned and reasonable chance, and with the persuasive force of the negative. For the true positive is the society of the future and therefore beyond definition arid determination, while the existing positive is that which must be surmounted. But the experience and understanding of the existent society may well be capable of identifying what is not conducive to a free and rational society, what impedes and distorts the possibilities of its creation. Freedom is liberation, a specific historical process in theory and practice, and as such it has its right and wrong, its truth and falsehood.

The uncertainty of chance in this distinction does not cancel the historical objectivity, but it necessitates freedom of thought and expression as preconditions of finding the way to freedom—it necessitates tolerance. However, this tolerance cannot be indiscriminate and equal with respect to the contents of expression, neither in word nor in deed; it cannot protect false words and wrong deeds which demonstrate that they contradict and counteract the’ [sic] possibilities of liberation. Such indiscriminate tolerance is justified in harmless debates, in conversation, in academic discussion; it is indispensable in the scientific enterprise, in private religion. But society cannot be indiscriminate where the pacification of existence, where freedom and happiness themselves are at stake: here, certain things cannot be said, certain ideas cannot be expressed, certain policies cannot be proposed, certain behavior cannot be permitted without making tolerance an instrument for the continuation of servitude.

This was written in 1965, before anybody really understood what something like it would mean. Marcuse’s prose is overwrought and verbose, and it takes a bit to unpack what he’s saying, but the gist is that the “normals” tolerating the deviants, in the framework of the 1960s, isn’t good enough — the deviants must demand not just tolerance but control and then use that to deny tolerance of the normals.

And that’s exactly what we’re seeing with Pride Month.

Woke corporations like Anheuser-Busch and Target, caught pushing overt queer advocacy toward kids (let’s remember that Bud Light “brand ambassador” Dylan Mulvaney’s trans shtick is that he’s LARPing as a teenaged girl), generates a massive pushback from normal Americans that results in tens of billions in market-cap losses, and what happens? A coalition of organizations like GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign put out a statement that says this, emphasis mine:

Recent pushback against businesses such as Anheuser-Busch and Target, blatantly organized by extremist groups, serves as a wake up call for all businesses that support the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve seen this extremist playbook of attacks before. Their goal is clear: to prevent LGBTQ+ inclusion and representation, silence our allies and make our community invisible. These attacks fuel hate against LGBTQ+ people, just as we’ve seen this year with more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that restrict basic freedoms and aim to erase LGBTQ+ people.

Extremist attacks and harassment of businesses for standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community and values of diversity, equity and inclusion have challenged Target, and businesses more broadly, to lead — to demonstrate they mean what they say when investing in and standing with LGBTQ+ people, creatives, and organizations. Businesses must continue to lead and respond with unwavering support for LGBTQ+ employees, shareholders, customers, allies — and the broader community. When values of diversity, equity and inclusion are tested, businesses must defend them unequivocally.

Because “sometimes you have to force behavior.”

Pride Month isn’t about gay people anymore. The vast majority of gay people are deeply uncomfortable, even if they can’t say it publicly, with the lengths to which their so-called advocates are going to push the agenda. (RELATED: This Bud’s Definitely Not for You)

All they wanted was tolerance. They didn’t want to proselytize exotic sexuality to kids.

Most gay people you talk to certainly don’t want this:

Or this:

There is no popular appetite for this. It’s being foisted on us by a radical, privileged elite that believes themselves to be enlightened beyond our mere Judeo-Christian morality.

The Machine is responsible for this.

Last week Anson Frericks, former U.S. president of sales and distribution for Anheuser-Busch, was on Fox News. Frericks, who’s a co-founder of Strive Asset Management, spilled the beans on why the Dylan Mulvaney disaster could happen:

‘You just have to follow the money. Take a look at BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard — they manage $20 billion worth of capital,’ he said.

Frericks said a lot of the money managed by institutional investors comes from big pension funds like those of the state of California, which put ideological pressure on the money managers.

Because “sometimes you have to force behavior.”

So the pressure comes from the financial elite, and it turns the corporations woke, and the woke corporations saturate the market with queer advocacy in pursuit of the fascist ESG social credit score it’s demanded that they satisfy. And Pride Month turns into not a celebration at all but rather an exercise of political and cultural dominance on the part of people nobody voted for. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: Five Quick Things: Are Democrats the Gay-Porn-For-Kids Party?)

So it’s time to vote — with your feet and with your dollars. And with your ballot and your voice.

It’s time to punish the purveyors of Pride Month for what this has turned into.

Because the response to “you will be made to care” has to be “you will be made to regret my caring.”

And the normals have been made to care.

So that’s it. They’re escalating, and now we need to.

Scott McKay
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Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama, available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels Animus, Perdition, Retribution and Quandary at Amazon.
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