Largely tangential to the main comment, but I’m not sure a “lgbtq” sale is a particularly good example of over-the-top wokeness. The only thing I could reasonably see to object to about it is the name, but I fear we are probably stuck with “lgbt######??”, bad as it is. And as examples go, that one is actually quite tame- only 5 letters!
It’s not over-the-top, but it’s a step away from neutrality, and towards pandering to some political issue because it’s profitable.
They’re just superficial traits, they don’t define you as a person, right? So why celebrate them? And have we forgotten why pride is the worst sin one can commit? T is not even a sexuality, and queer is basically the same as gay. And this is basically just a popular club for socially acceptable “minority traits”, meaning that it still does nothing for prosecuted minorities. If the most popular movement in the world is on your side, then you’re not prosecuted nor in the need of protection. Having public opinion against you is terrible, and public opinion cannot be the protector of people who have the public against them, that’s a contradiction.
It’s all in the name of profits anyway. If “ethical” and “profitable” line up, that’s a happy coincidence, but most companies would support child labor if that was profitable. Public opinion has become a commodity, it’s not the positive progress that it looks like. I know that this is the slippery slope fallacy, but at this point I’d call it inductive reasoning.
The loss of neutrality is a sign of decay, for similar reasons that separation of powers is important. I’m afraid I have no formal proof of this, and that I don’t know the words for it since I’ve noticed this independently
Largely tangential to the main comment, but I’m not sure a “lgbtq” sale is a particularly good example of over-the-top wokeness. The only thing I could reasonably see to object to about it is the name, but I fear we are probably stuck with “lgbt######??”, bad as it is. And as examples go, that one is actually quite tame- only 5 letters!
It’s not over-the-top, but it’s a step away from neutrality, and towards pandering to some political issue because it’s profitable.
They’re just superficial traits, they don’t define you as a person, right? So why celebrate them? And have we forgotten why pride is the worst sin one can commit? T is not even a sexuality, and queer is basically the same as gay. And this is basically just a popular club for socially acceptable “minority traits”, meaning that it still does nothing for prosecuted minorities. If the most popular movement in the world is on your side, then you’re not prosecuted nor in the need of protection.
Having public opinion against you is terrible, and public opinion cannot be the protector of people who have the public against them, that’s a contradiction.
It’s all in the name of profits anyway. If “ethical” and “profitable” line up, that’s a happy coincidence, but most companies would support child labor if that was profitable. Public opinion has become a commodity, it’s not the positive progress that it looks like. I know that this is the slippery slope fallacy, but at this point I’d call it inductive reasoning.
The loss of neutrality is a sign of decay, for similar reasons that separation of powers is important. I’m afraid I have no formal proof of this, and that I don’t know the words for it since I’ve noticed this independently