2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Progressive Pragmatism versus Liberal Elitism [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I've really never met any LGBT people who were so snarky toward more aggressive political actions and stances because every single right we have started out as an insanely radical position to hold, most of the gains made by our community as well as the legendary emergency activism of the AIDS era came by way of uncompromising activists communicating in strong and certain language. So this whole disdain you constantly express in that regard is not something I am used to in the LGBT community, even with more conservative people, because you have to honor those who did all of that brave stuff and were the vanguard we all followed. How can you not? I have no idea. Stonewall, ACT UP, Harvey Milk, these were not 'pragmatic' they were direct action radical, and we are all of us in debt to what they did, what so many others did, all of us even those who do not know it.