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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8s4lf7 wrote

Good, stop gatekeeping Pride Parades, it's next level pettiness

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Conan776 t1_j8s6xdq wrote

Wasn't the old group being shaken down for money to get some inclusiveness stamp of approval? How is the new group avoiding the same issue, I wonder.

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East_Share_9406 t1_j8sb5dq wrote

My recollection is that the previous group disbanded during the george floyd protests in 2020 because they came to recognize that their board was not representative of the boston community.

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FrankWestingWester t1_j8tkag2 wrote

That's what they said in their final press release, but it's not really accurate. Other lgbtq groups (especially black ones) had been complaining for years about the people on the board, who had infinite term limits and never took any feedback (and were, as far as I know, all white and very disconnected) the george floyd protests happened and they put out a vague statement that had edited what their volunteers had written to remove the phases "black lives matter" and "we stand against police brutality". They also thew kind of a fit about being asked why they removed those phrases, and after some back and forth, 80% of the volunteer force left, so they COULDN'T really put on the parade anymore. Only then did they say they were dissolving the group (instead of passing it off to others, which is what people asked them to do). And they tried to spin that as stepping aside to let others lead.

Sorry for the wall of text, it just annoys me how they got to control the narrative there.

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East_Share_9406 t1_j8tm5u4 wrote

Thank you for filling in the details! I am not at all surprised that there was shady shit going on. Heres hoping the new committee will be better.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8sbl6y wrote

I hope they're doing something. From what I was reading and viewing back in 2019 it just became a huge ass mess of groups playing struggle Olympics and making undefined arguments about inclusiveness. I lost it at the refusal of the gay police group. Yeah I realize Stonewall was a riot against police, if anything a gay police group should be celebrated and serve as a sign of how far we've come socially.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8sl8zn wrote

That's a great message for queer cops who want to change the system.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8snbkz wrote

You can read my about, it's my hockey number not a Nazi thing. Don't accuse everyone you disagree with of being a Nazi it gets old.

And that's bs. As someone who's queer who works in a very conservative field that's how shit gets done, from the inside. Not from exclusion.

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BostonBroke1 t1_j8tffuw wrote

as someone who worked in the prison system - i disagree that change happens from within. All the CO's i worked with are sad sacks of shit. There's a reason they were hired. Those that want to change policing and police brutality are NOT directly joining those positions.

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tilehinge t1_j8wwl1o wrote

The point of the system is brutality and oppression. It will handily resist all internal efforts to change, because it controls the people within it - their paychecks, their livelihoods, and even their lives. If it decides you're a Problem, they'll toss you out in a hot second.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8wxo1t wrote

That sounds like a lot of blanket statements.

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tilehinge t1_j8xeqls wrote

Ask Houston Tipping how "change from within" went.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8xfbwc wrote

Wow, one individual case that doesn't address the actual issue or point I'm trying to make.

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Turd___Ferguson___ t1_j8xhn4r wrote

Redditors will abandon any and all stated principles as soon as a group they dislike (in this case, cops) stands on the other side.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8xjvp5 wrote

I feel like it separates who actually lives in the real world and who lives behind a keyboard all day.

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tilehinge t1_j8xzc2m wrote

Lol what principle did I abandon? "Fuck cops" is pretty core for me.

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Turd___Ferguson___ t1_j8y243l wrote

r/boston: "Police should be a part of the community they serve"

Police: "Cool, can our LGBT officers be a part of the parade?"

r/boston: autistic screeching

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tilehinge t1_j8yct03 wrote

Cops should be accountable to the community. Until they are - and they're nowhere close yet - communities, including the queer community, have every right to exclude them, and rightfully so. But cool ableism anyway.

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Digitaltwinn t1_j8t0irf wrote

I thought it was disbanded last year because there was an outright neonazi/white supremacist on the pride board, but this was all gossip at the time.

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Conan776 t1_j8v913c wrote

I can't blame the Old Pride for just folding up their tent; it's gotta be the worst thing when you are doing charitable work, just trying to bring some joy to the world, and people are running around trying to convince other people that you are a Nazi.

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