Two things can be true at the same time. Palestine is a horrible place for us queer folks, and Israel is committing atrocities against the Palestinian population.
There [hasn't been an election in Gaza for 18 years so nobody there had had the opportunity to choose an alternative anyway.
That's especially crazy about the "Palestinians voted for Hamas". With the median age in gaza a bit below 18 years the majority of Gazans wasn't even alive in the last election. Of the adults about half weren't of voting age during that time.
What kind of person accuses queer people in Seoul of "virtue signalling" for expressing support of Palestine? This isn't the government or a corporation, but genuine people at Pride (in a location btw where it takes a massive amount of courage to be openly queer -- my cousin is from Seoul)
Everybody's saying that we need to break down big tasks into small tasks to get stuff done and then do this. How is anything going to happen if its all or nothing? Maybe just push for pride here and push for other stuff elsewhere.
Sometimes you need to work with different people for different issues, who oppose your other issues. This is just making more opposition with no actual goal.
Like what is the message of "No Pride in Genocide?" Getting concessions from Israel? LMAO NO. There's just not gonna be any pride.
Stop linking everything, get some concrete goals to push for and go step by step.
"Can we just stop talking about genocide -- have you considered the genocidaires have feewings too?"
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Edit: I'd strongly encourage everyone to please read Mare's comment history. It's ... really something else. A lot of downplaying the fact that the US and Israel are committing a genocide.