Re: Pedo Pride Protest
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:50 am
I do but I don't think it's the most effective place to start.
I choose to look at the Gay movement as a reference although we don't have to follow their journey, but we can learn from it.
Gays were driven underground through fear of hatred from their communities, from the state, from the law. They formed groups, they focused on small wins, picked small fights they could win.
Losing a job for being gay. Being refused accommodation for being gay. Being refused to be served in a shop for being gay. Being physically attacked for being gay. Every small win moves the needle a little further.
Then challenging the media, eventually suing the media for printing lies. Yes, you can see the press but gay people didn't start there.
Challenging the police, the courts, institutions.
People don't like or trust institutions so by this point, people see institutions being challenged by a group and they start to root for the underdog, start to see the unfairness of the system, start to listen to what they gay community is saying. They start out sick about what gay people are, but they listen to the messages and start to think about it. There's a gradual shift until the people are fully behind them and change finally comes completely.
Pedo pride is the victory lap at the end to celebrate the outcomes of that long and hard fight. I don't see a place for pedo pride before the fight is won, it's celebrating something we've avoiding.
Is a pedo pride going to change peoples minds?
It will if it gets people to stop and listen and think. Will it do that? I'm not sure that it will. It will annoy people, but if it doesn't educate people of make people stop and think then is it moving the needle? It might be that it does get some people to stop and think in which case it's a good idea, but that is something to really think about I feel.
I choose to look at the Gay movement as a reference although we don't have to follow their journey, but we can learn from it.
Gays were driven underground through fear of hatred from their communities, from the state, from the law. They formed groups, they focused on small wins, picked small fights they could win.
Losing a job for being gay. Being refused accommodation for being gay. Being refused to be served in a shop for being gay. Being physically attacked for being gay. Every small win moves the needle a little further.
Then challenging the media, eventually suing the media for printing lies. Yes, you can see the press but gay people didn't start there.
Challenging the police, the courts, institutions.
People don't like or trust institutions so by this point, people see institutions being challenged by a group and they start to root for the underdog, start to see the unfairness of the system, start to listen to what they gay community is saying. They start out sick about what gay people are, but they listen to the messages and start to think about it. There's a gradual shift until the people are fully behind them and change finally comes completely.
Pedo pride is the victory lap at the end to celebrate the outcomes of that long and hard fight. I don't see a place for pedo pride before the fight is won, it's celebrating something we've avoiding.
Is a pedo pride going to change peoples minds?
It will if it gets people to stop and listen and think. Will it do that? I'm not sure that it will. It will annoy people, but if it doesn't educate people of make people stop and think then is it moving the needle? It might be that it does get some people to stop and think in which case it's a good idea, but that is something to really think about I feel.