Why Progressive Events Like “Pride Month” Won’t Last
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- In this little lecture I’ll be discussing a sociological concept I call “The Dual Calendar”, whereby due to high levels of political polarisation over the last few decades, both Progressives and Conservatives now find themselves living in their own worlds, and as such, having their own unique events.
But I only believe one such world view will ultimately last the test of time, and as the title implies, I don’t believe it shall be the progressive one.
As the progressive crowning jewel of “pride month” comes to yet another end for the year, join me as I reflect on this impeccably complex conflict of interests.
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"Tradition isn't about worshipping the Ashes but Preserving the Fire."
This saying is brilliant. Did you make it up on the spot?
@@mikesecondname Heard it from a Channel talking about how Traditional European Architecture is making a Comeback. The one where the People who live in it like it but the modernist Architects hate.
@@arnowisp6244 I don't know anyone who likes modern architecture and homes because it's so copy paste and sanitary.
It's the perfect Indicator of where society as a whole has gone and why so many are becoming more disgruntled at things.
To anyone who's wondering what this is from, I think It was from G. K. Chesterton
@@miscellaneous2160 Damn. No wonder why it's from the legend Himself.
Edit: Actually it's from Gustav Mahler.
I honestly think that if Pride Month was shortened to a day or even a week, it wouldn't get half the hate it does. It has the same energy as a teenage girl having a "birthday month": self-important, cringey, and alienating to everyone who doesn't bend the knee.
What makes me the angriest about pride month is that it's *MY* birthday month. I am so gracious as to accept only a single day to celebrate the very emergence from my mother's womb unto the world, one piddly, tiny, little day for my entire being! And I don't even get it all to myself as other people got born that very day! And yet these selfish, egotistical *maniacs* demand and entire *month!?* For something as silly as a singular aspect of them? Is it the only aspect they have to them!? If so, that's sad.
Eventually the teenager grows up. Pride Members don’t.
That type of teenager doesn't grow up. Look how immature even 30 year olds are, using baby talk in normal conversations, inventing new slang constantly that no one understands, and the inability to manage their own lives
It would still get hate because in many places Like NYC and San Fran, they are wearing butt plugs and ball gags and leather thongs and they do all these sick fetish things out in front of GOD and everyone.
Although the fact it's Pride *MONTH* is a problem, it's not the only problem many of us have.
The problem is what pride and the lgbt community has become.
It's no longer just about lgbt acceptance, it's become celebrating their disgusting fetishes, perversions and kinks.
No, I'm not saying being gay is a fetish, i mean actual perverted fetish crap. Just look up videos or pictures of pride parades you'll see people just flaunting sex toys or wearing bondage gear.
I remember seeing a youtube ad that was pro gay/pride and an image they had in its montage showed men riding bikes and their lower bodies were censored; probably because they were wearing bondage gear.
There's a reason why, for the first time in recent history, the younger generation is out right rejecting the lgbt community. Even lgbt people are rejecting the lgbt community because of how perverted and toxic it has become, and they don't want to be associated with that.
Why would anyone want align themselves with an organization that publicly supports showing children, YOUNG CHILDREN, sexual content.
There's also a sort of offense with making a holiday a month long. How many times have you heard "Why do we celebrate the LGBTQ2+ community for a whole month, but the soldiers who laid their lives on the battlefield to secure the peace needed for this movement to even exist get a day and a minute of silence?"
because one increases corporate profits and the other doesnt
The scarcity also makes Remembrance Day much more special, it doesn't need more time really. That's likely one of the many reasons why people don't like pride, the whole thing is utterly self-indulgent, and it's only gotten moreso as time went on. It's the same reason why retail workers hate Christmas, it's shoved in their face all day everyday for MONTHS.
@@stephenallen4635 With all due respect, I mentioned how you will often hear statements like this, I'm well aware every single one of these things is self-indulgent and thus very marketable.
@@Vaguer_Weevil I agree, I always put on my uniform and pay respects for that sacred hour at the cenotaph. If we gave it more time we'd all just get bitter, not just because of the length, but because it's a sad holiday.
I will say though, I really love Christmas despite working retail for years. I however, would happily never hear "All I want for Christmas is you" or "Santa Baby" ever again.
I'm not defending pride month at all, but May is National Military Appreciation Month. It includes veterens and active service. Celebrate it how you please
It was men’s mental health awareness month but people remember only the alphabet soup month. That’s concerning
Its not a competition
And fathers day
@@Will-eq6vy I can't agree entirely. While not everyone is extreme it still has turned into a tribalistic cult. ''Either follow the leader or be socially ostracized.''
It is a competition of who gets to be the crown of the pity party.
@@Will-eq6vy so you would be fine if we’d phase out pride month since it’s not a competition right?
That’s because the alphabet soup nominally includes women. Men’s mental health awareness is just about men. However, the sexual attraction/sexuality angle probably gives men non-trivial (at least 55/45) majority representation in the actual event. Even the Bible never mentions the possibility of female homosexuality explicitly.
I work as a security guard at an office. When one of the facilities guys took down the pride flag on July 1st, he angrily bundled it up like an annoying piece of paper, thinking no one saw. Then realizing someone would notice if he stored it like that, folded it properly. People secretly don't really like it, but they are socially coerced into being indifferent.
@@Alvosploio One guy is not people in general.
@@Necroman98 I didn't indicate how many or how few. Please don't "Generalities vs Cult of Not All" me. I'm tired, man.
@@Alvosploio K
@Necroman98 suddenly it's "not all". I remember me too.
@@relishcakes4525 What is the Cult of not all?
Father's Day is in June. I believe pride month wishes to erase that.
Because they have a grudge against their fathers 😢😢
It also wishes to erase Men's mental health month. The left just hates men.
They want to erase mothers, fathers, girls and boys.
😢
Absolutely this
"Pride month is for everyone."
I have a site who once did an event in pride month where they invited people to draw something showing pride for their gender with the flag representing them. All genders.
...Except Heterosexuality. That was not allowed to be "proud" of. If you did something with such "flag", you were deemed a homophobe.
I hope one day your sexuality isn't a point of pride one way or the other
@@emarskineel In general I don't care about it. The problem is when they tell you "everyone is celebrated, except *you."* At this point it starts feeling like done in spite.
@@emarskineel No one should feel pride over sexuality. Hetero and otherwise, it's not a choice. It's not everyone's business. I don't want to teach 5 year old children about it, and I'm sick of seeing it interrupt movies that aren't ABOUT it. Being sex-obsessed is a bad thing, and I would rather we treat non-heteros equally so it can become a mundane part of life, like being irish or left-handed. Being persecuted doesn't make ME owe you, because I never engaged in it, and straight-savior complex is undoing progress.
I saw something like that. a teacher gave colorful stuff if you picked something lgbt. if you picked straight or something not gay you got something plain and boring.
@@emarskineel
No. Heterosexuality should be a point of pride.
Without us the human race ceases to exist.
I am autistic and there is a leftist movement called autistic pride as well.
My first reaction was: "you tell me I should be proud of my brain disorder. WHAT???"😂
I can see pride in overcoming the struggles that come with the disorder, but not in the disorder itself, that doesn't make much sense.
@@SSJKamui Pride stand for Personal Rights in defense in education. Do you think you as neurodivergent have a right to control your own destiny? Or do you think your inferior for some reason and need guidance from neurotypicals? I question the idea that high functioning aut is a disorder, I don't think it is it's just a different order.
@@memph7610 i agree
I see people, and I hate to say this, but almost exclusively women, proudly proclaim every neurodivergency they think they have on social media. They treat them like Pokemon, got to catch 'em all! And being that I know some of these people well, I believe they suffer from nothing more than maybe normal levels of social anxiety. It's attention seeking and looking for validation for no good reason. The screwed up fallout is they take pride in this, and then turn to people who have real issues and tell them to do the same. Fortunately, I'm not autistic, clinically depressed, etc. But if I were, I think I'd find their behavior very insulting.
You should ABSOLUTELY be proud of your attitude about it though rock on
Years ago I took a gay friend to a Veterans Day Parade. He took in all the pomp and circumstance and gratitude and patriotism throughout. He was overwhelmed and said “Oh, I want this!!!” Looking around with a reference to being the focus of the admiration. Everyone was there to celebrate and thank those who ‘Chose’ to wear a uniform and fight for us. The Vets certainly did not focus on themselves. Now my friend is heavily involved in all the Pride Parades which have the crowd and celebrations, but focused on self for an attribute that they were born with, did not choose, and has nothing to do with self sacrifice.
Since 7th October I have lost all confidence in Pride. I'm a gay man but when Pride started supporting terrorism it totally lost me.
Pride has more to do with an accomplishment or a sacrifice than a sexual preference.
@@kenandrews4634
I live in Downtown Palm Springs. Trust me, Pride is about sexual preference. And it is really perverted. Most of the groups gathered are fetishist and drag groups, they're not dedicated to human or LGBT rights. They've already won and they know it so they're just enjoying the hedonistic fruits of their identity.
@@kenandrews4634In theory yes, its supposed to be about those who were persecuted for being gay but stood up for their right to be treated as normal citizens. However now its a narcissistic display of fetishes by people who havent faced any adversity for being gay. In favt they are now being celebrated just for their sexual preference... we were told they just wanted to be treated normal. To be treated like everyone else. That it was just a difference in who they chose as a partner. But now they demanded to be celebrated for flaunting sexual fetishes in the street. (Obviously that doesnt apply to all lgbtq) many are not that way and many are appalled at what “pride” has become.
@@kenandrews4634 I disagree. You choose to die for your country and for the people you protect. What do you sacrifice by being born or developing a sexuality? Socially ostracisation? Possible abuse? What do you accomplish by being a man attracted to men? Aids??
I understand if they have a bad home life but that's not LGBT exclusive, and what about the ones who are fully supported by everyone around them? What did they accomplish and sacrifice? Nothing.
The changes to the pride flag always puzzled me. I thought the symbology of the rainbow- a spectrum of colours- was meant to represent a generalized diversity. The addition of the black/brown stripes, and eventually the rest, was a bizzare statement. I imagine that it was enough for a few activists to simply assert that the original flag wasn’t inclusive of X minority group, and progressives had no choice but to relent as they have no defence against that type of rhetoric.
The reason is simple, scientific research figured out 15+ years ago that homosexuality is a learned behavior. Nobody is "born gay". This is fatal to the LGBT religion. The entire movement is based on a lie.
Rather than abandoning the religion, they doubled down and blindly assert that choosing to engage in homosexuality is the same as being born black. It's crude and ham fisted.
the Progressive/Imperial pride flag has never been about inclusion by specification. It's been about self-aggrandizement, that oneself is somehow specially standing out in a crowd of supposed equals.
"I've been pointed out in particular, therefore I am special!" When things become normalized, those who understand being previously abnormal don't see themselves as special anymore, so they resort to finding new ways of standing out. It's a very infantile call for attention.
@@Tounushi This also ties in, at least in my perspective. to the astronomical rise in transgender-identifying people these days. Its no longer just an incredibly rare medical condition, its not just a fetish, its "how am I supposed to be special anymore if being gay/lesbian/bisexual doesn't cut it anymore? How can I stand out?" so they simply declare themselves trans and go through all these harrowing bodily modifications to be special again. Its a neverending cycle of trying to reach the apotheosis of special, to tbe the one Little Star that twinkles like no other.
@terminator572
Ironically, the more they try, the LESS special they become. And with each attempt to become "special", they get progressively more unhinged and obnoxious, which makes people's distaste for them worse.
I found them obnoxious 20 years ago when I only opposed them for religious reasons. Since then, they’ve vindicated my position more than I could have expected.
The problem with the "chevron'd" pride flag is that the rainbow was supposed to represent everyone (as in "all the colors of the rainbow") but identitarians need to be *more special* and thus need a specific part of the flag for themselves. It's also why all the sub-flags (the bi flag, the trans flag, etc.) are stupid.
"...some animals are more equal than others"
I’m a conservative gay femboy, and I approve this message 👍
@@Echo_Underscore F
@@AndrewRyan-zv7zb animals farm reference
It’s not stupid, it’s meant to more specifically identify a smaller group of people.
Giving the pride flag brown, black, white, light blue, purple and yellow, and pink doesn’t make it worse. It makes it easier to understand for dumb people
"We just want to be married"
"We just want to be accepted"
"We just want some representation"
"We just want to celebrate our pride"
"If you don't accept us, you're evil"
"If you don't celebrate us, you're evil"
"If you don't celebrate us talking to your children about our sexuality behind your back, you're evil"
The "Slippery Slope" has been proven time and time and time again to the point where someone calling it a "fallacy" feels almost like a red-flag that the person you're talking to *knows* it'll slip further, and that's what they're betting on.
"We just want to ban abortion"
"We just want to end same sex marriage"
"We just want to ban sodomy"
"We just want to ban sex-ed"
"We just want to ban contraceptives"
"We just want woman to be more "traditional" (no education)"
"We just want to abolish woman's suffrage"
"Your child willl give birth to her rapist baby you degenerate"
"The law will be written according to the bible. Hallelujah!"
"The priest will aprove your 12-year old child's marriage with a 50-year old nobleman! NO!? Its a century long christian tradition you heretic!!!"
The slippery slope is bullshit, just because development A open the discussion to B and B is bad doesn't mean A is also bad. You can perfectly accept one and reject the other. Otherwise I should be able to dismish any Christian political talking point out of fear that it will slip us to a Christian Theocracy where the priest class performs pedo marriages like they did for centuries. The truth is that the people that believe in the slippery slope didn't like gay marriage to begin with. They're christians that are piss-mad about being beaten by the "amoral sodomites" and now they can't even say the f-word in the family table without their grandkids calling them out. The slippery slope is their attempt at camouflaging themselves among the less piss-mad christians so that they may have their revenge.
And it is going to get worse, they will resort to violence and complete bigotry and hate. An example of that was when one or two LGBTQ people attacked two schools, one of them, also a Christian school, was attacked and 11 kids and a teacher were gunned down by an LGBTQ person who murdered them. ALL of them!
It’s only logically fallacious if the progression being stated is not logically consistent, rational, and actually foreseeable. So, the slippery slope fallacy is real, but there’s times where it doesn’t apply.
For example: “if we legalize weed all the children will start using it, then everyone will get hooked on that diacetylmorphine stuff because they started with weed, become homeless nobodies on the street, and then all of society will literally collapse. Would someone please think of the children!” (Yes, I’ve actually heard arguments like that one before…)
That is a completely nonsense progression of events; thus, it constitutes a slippery slope fallacy.
Where the fallacy doesn’t apply for example: give bad actors an inch, and they’ll take a mile. Of course those with a negative hidden agenda are going to constantly advance their demands to get what really want: more power, control, attention, money, etc. They can’t get what they really want without resistance, so what do they do? Use a strategy based on gradualism.
@fearlesswee5036 the slippery slope is only a fallacy if its not shown it will actually go to those extremes
I am a gay who hates pridemonth
It just dehumanises us and just treats us like a pokemon
Id also say im a common ground
I wish it was only the rainbow
Rainbow=everyone
And consumers.
Wish people would not care
Why are you gay?
National flags are the most legitimate and have the greatest ability to unify a people.
The pride flag has a great ability to divide society.
preach only nation flags should exist
Anti-flag
@@krunkle5136 It takes two to tango. It doesn't have to divide society but society lets it. In all honesty society should be divided but peacefully, I say we start a Confederacy of independent settlements really. I don't want to live without Pride you don't want to live around it we shouldn't be under the same government but it shouldn't come to blood.
National flags divide people, we should abolish them and come together as one world
@@Necroman98 You don't want me praying in schools and teaching kids how to pray... But I can't tell you to keep a flag of random colored stripes out of the class room...
In fact if a school says MY SON is REALLY a GIRL... The SCHOOL can have CPS take my child away from me...
And you support this... But Louisiana is destroying the constitution by demanding the 10 commandments in class rooms...
Events that divide a society should not be encouraged.
How is pride month dividing society? Yes there are some that attempt to use it to divide but you don’t have to be divided if you don’t want to be. Nobody is saying that all straight people should die. If anything it’s straight people saying all gay people should die. This division is created by one side and not the other.
What if the division is for a good reason...
on the contrary, events that unite people should be encouraged. like, idk, "talk about why nuclear power is a really good solution day". "pick up litter day". "share useful life tips with others day". something like that, which is beneficial to everyone
@@noxxyy Beneficial to everyone would also include a free education all the way to Professional status if you can maintain the grades to do so.
@@stickmanbrains It isn't.
As a gay guy myself I can’t wait until all this stuff vanishes. All I want is to be left alone to live my life. I don’t need holidays or anything based around something that is ultimately a tiny facet of who I am and shouldn’t matter outside the privacy of my home.
When all this stuff vanishes, it'll be because society has moved back to the historical norm of gay oppression. This liberal era we're currently in is the exception, not the rule.
strangely, a lot of young gay men with lots of internalised homophobia will go through a far right phase, that happened to a friend of mine, before he grow up a bit
@@reececrook7021 Strangely a lot of hyper progressives claim this about anyone who doesn't 100% agree with everything they believe when it comes to sexuality as a whole.
Homophobia has lost all real meaning as it's been thrown out so often as an insult. I know plenty of LGBT people sick of pride. Doesn't make them homophobic simply because they don't share your far left wing progressive views.
@@reececrook7021 I’m not far right, nor am I far left. This “internalized homophobia” thing is just a buzzword used to invalidate people who don’t all join the hive mind, similar to calling black people coons or uncle toms when they don’t bow down to the left wing. It’s disgusting and I’m sick of being told that if I don’t suck up to the narrative I must hate myself.
That's not internalized homophobia lol. I think you'd be surprised that most gay men are actually pretty normal and nuanced, not a monolith. They like to keep their sexual life private. I'm still closeted besides a couple friends knowing, because I find the whole pride thing extremely annoying.
Can confirm 1990's Christmas was peak Christmas.
Super Nintendo with Street Fighter 2
In hindsight, it seems that 1980s-1990s was peak everything. After 9/11 things changed. Then as the Mayans predicted, 2012 was the beginning of the end.
Yup. Home Alone and Die Hard. Can't top that!
@@Epic_Cyounger dryas type event is coming
i blame the 90s for emo culture.
The "popularity" of pride month is already losing it's vigor. Remember last year's pride month with the whole Target/Bud Lite Fiasco? It was disastrous for them. And this year, Pride month has been almost completely forgotten about! Companies that had changed their pfps last year to rainbows didn't do that this year, when companies changing their pfps is one of the core aspects of Pride Month. There weren't any huge parades, no large media attention given to it, no pride statements from [insert corporation here], it's like Pride Month was non-existent. I have a strong feeling next year it'll be even more diminished
all you say is just fale damn, sad day to be a Splatoon fan
yeah online i personally barely saw pride related stuff at all aside from the memes around start and end of pride month
@@Grenat lmao keep coping. Pride month is dying and there's nothing you can do to stop it
HAPPY SUMMER YEAH!!!
A few years ago you couldn't go a minute without seeing a pride flag anywhere. This year it was like July 1st or May 31st.
If a corporation is supporting you then it's because you're convenient to their bottom line, not because they honestly care.
In Germany, some conservatives have co-opted pride month by starting their own month, "Stolzmonat" (Pride month, translated into German). It celebrates pride for Germany, being German, German history, German traditions & patriotism. The flag of the month is a Rainbow flag, shaded to the 3 colours of the German flag.
That's awesome
Proud Germans round 3: Extreme Bogaloo
Not really. Just populists preying on people who are feeling dissatisfied. @@davewhite756
based
That's awesome. I do want Germans to realize it's okay to love their country.
I propose: Humility Month.
we already have it, Lent
@@nothernstar2576 Isn't Lent between Martis Gras and Easter, though? I'm suggesting Humility Month to take place during/instead of Pride Month. Then we can have 2 Lents.
@@somedandy7694 40 days before Easter yeah(I am Eastern Orthodox, so it's a little different for me). It's an interesting idea, but I don't see why we can't just get rid of the Pride month, instead of replacing it. We don't need to replace or match, we already have the analogue, so why not use it?
@@nothernstar2576 I'd like to see Pride Month fade away, but until that happens I think opposing it by observing Humility Month is the best course of action.
Also...I understand Lent to be religious (specifically Catholic/Orthodox if I'm not mistaken), which gives it a more limited reach than a secular movement toward Humility Month.
When gays invoke the word "pride", they do not mean the opposite of "humble", which is the pride that you invoke when you draw this poor joke. They mean the opposite of "shame". The first is like a brilliant pianist boasting about how his musical skills are second to none. The second is like the early christians at Rome shamelessly preaching their religion in spite of the social stigma at the time. Just because the word is the same doesn't mean they point towards the same thing.
I suspect you all know this, but just pretend not to just to indulge in your hatred.
I remember a time in my teens when i was a gay ally, and being explicitly told by the leadership of the group i went to, allies are not equal, and will be treated worse, butnot as worse as non believers
Oh to be a teen and tolerate such non-sense 😂 glad you grew up bro
Wow 😮 these people are truly in a cult.
It’s developed into cult.
Hell yeah dude make it all about you that’s the spirit
@@SchmelvinMoyville What, is he supposed to make it about the freaks who base their entire personality and identity on who they're sexually attracted to? How egotistical and boring can you get if you think that's the thing that matters most about yourself?
We need a gluttony month and a greed month and sloth month, Wrath, envy and lust months also to go with our pride month.
Hear hear. My feelings exactly.
To be fair they say pride but often means lust exclusively.
I think we can map this out. We already have Pride month set. As for the others....
Sloth month: January, when we all blow off our new year resolutions
Lust month: February, the month of Valentine's Day.
Greed month: May. Here in the States, that's when people are receiving their tax refunds.
Wrath month: July. The heat makes people grumpy.
Gluttony month: November, when it's time for Thanksgiving dinner.
Envy month: December, when you see that the other kids got better Christmas presents than you.
We have greed all the year alredy
When gays invoke the word "pride", they do not mean the opposite of "humble", which is the pride that you invoke when you draw this poor joke. They mean the opposite of "shame". The first is like a brilliant pianist boasting about how his musical skills are second to none. The second is like the early christians at Rome shamelessly preaching their religion in spite of the social stigma at the time. Just because the word is the same doesn't mean they point towards the same thing.
I suspect you all know this, but just pretend not to just to indulge in your hatred.
22:30 As a Nigerian Catholic, I am so glad you pointed this out. Christianity is one of the few religions that is about ethics rather than ethnicity or some isolated trait. That's why it spread and had so much appeal. Even my grandfather who was raised a pagan and was set to inherit the ancestral shrine, embraced Christianity and was even supported by his pagan family.
Cool! :D
I am an American Catholic praying for you, your family, and an end to the violence against all of our brothers in Christ in Nigeria. Stay close to God in these dire times.
@@SportsWchEspBased
I am curious about the similarities of Christians values and the many laws/Constitutions across countries with a Christian history. Do they all take their roots from this religion ?
@@vivelespatat2670 in a way, yes. I am not a deep historian or a westerner but given how a lot western liberalism has tenets that were derived from Judeo-Christian values, it's clear how Christianity influenced those civilizations. Even in Nigeria, our model of democracy and nation building came largely from the British and their Christian-influences. Even Muslims in politics tend to not try and alter those aspects
the thing about christmas is… they would NEVER treat Ramadan like that or Hanukah. NEVER…
no because theres actual reprecussions to doing that
Yea they wouldnt because muslims have a spine unlike christians who have no honor left
The left just loves to persecute christians, because there just soooooo tolerant😒
@@notnurfcreanga Christians don't know how to defend their religion. They have gotten soft, with all their peace and kindness. All the other abrahamic religions are ruthless groups of people that don't fear dying for what they believe. Christians grew too comfortable. If someone insults their christmas or some other even, they will be like "omg thats so evil its literally satan" and then forget about in in like a week.
Well not really, I've seen a push to make Eid more secularized, especially from Disney.
Google the Disney eid song for a first hand view. It's blatantly obvious how they're trying to remove the religion from a religious holiday.
As Shortfatotaku said, the changing of the Pride flag is like having a country be conquered by another nation. It’s original meaning is pushed further and further out until it’ll get to a point where it’s no longer even recognizable.
SFO is still a neo-lib shill
The original meaning was still evil sodomy. The rainbow was a symbol of God's mercy. Now it's a symbol of why we don't deserve it.
You watch him too based
@@slimeplayz164 sfo is a gay centrist. Always go farther right
Remember, All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
this feels like zoom call lecture
W Teacher lol
But in a good way
And I love it
Not SunnyV2 hyperactive editing enough for you?
Good politics should not be a dog and pony show for entertainment. It should be a lecture which is bland but critical to us.
They say they want to include you, but the way they include you is by humiliating you, like having you watch a drag show.
These progressives think that they're like the 1960s progressives of the Civil Rights Era, but in reality, they're more like the 1910s-20s progressives that gave us income taxes, alcohol prohibition, and eugenics.
Ah, you mean gender-based minstrel shows.
LMFAOOO no one’s forcing you to watch a drag show girl
Why would watching a drag show be humiliating. What a lil whiner, the UK isn't so dramatized and people just get along and don't make such a fuss about everything.
@@Habib_Osman You are more than welcome to dress up like a woman, Habib, but we don't wanna watch.
I always like to call the Progress Pride flag the "everyone but straight white people flag" lol. Very interesting video and well said.
The progress pride flag is really really ugly. But actually it could include straight people in the way that a trans man or trans woman who's only attracted to the opposite gender is technically straight.
i like to call it the overdesigned flag because it takes a decent simple design and completely misses the point and ruins it. idk what vocal minority of LGBT folks thought that was a good idea but they sure don't know anything about design
@@noxxyy when I first saw it I could not believe my eyes that shit is atrocious
I think the flag should be changed to EBSCW (everyone but straight cis whites) Flag. It certainly is shorter.
@@rottencandy2675 yeah it's about sexuality and gender I have no clue why they added a racial part too it, kinda dumb cuz the original rainbow did just fine.
Pride will die also because parades will die.
Great point. I can't remember the last non-pride parade I attended or even knew was happening. It's not really much of a 'thing' outside of Thanksgiving and Christmas.
@@neeedGems
My home town has the constitution day parade every year, other than that yeah
What's wrong with parades?
@@MoonMoverGaming they are lame for zoomer standards.
@@MoonMoverGaming they happen outside
I'm gay and want pride month gone, we will never feel truly "normalized" in society if we get specialized treatment and constant acknowledgment for being different.
I like how holidays can be split between family get together (loose definition of family), excuse to cook, day off from government job, and howdy i exist. So many progressive holidays can't get past the exist part.
Just erase pride month and respect all humans the whole year
Including Sunday, when people are demonizing anybody that doesn't agree with them and that is what the entire sermon is about.
@@OceanusHelios Society is collapsing and going downhill ever since it's abandoned Judeo-Christian morality. Also, your worldview is based on Judeo-Christian ethics, whether your tiny brain realizes it or not, doesn't matter. You can't erase thousands of years of cultural conditioning. And you can't expect society to be stable when there are no objective, transcendental standards. I would be more open-minded, but your nihilistic, arrogant mindset that many other atheists have, is the REASON we are in this mess. So forgive me for getting pissed off about it. Apparently if you normalize people doing as they please, bad stuff happens to society! Who woulda thought?!
@@OceanusHelios
You feel the need to attack Christianity when he didn’t even bring that up.
Erase veterans day
@@MANTUEFLIE2those guys are have to fight and die in war, that a different story
The Rainbow flag always meant diversity, but that wasn't enough.
It’s another supremacy movement disguised as tolerance.
Actually it was originally a Christian icon long before it was turned into the symbol of the organization named after a deadly sin
@@walkermott1750He said the rainbow flag not the rainbow
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The flag is missing a color to be the rainbow
@@16m49x3 Actually, it's missing a whole load of colors.
'Cuz the rainbow is a spectrum.
What am I even supposed to do as a parade attendee? Stand up and clap ad nauseam?
Same thing you do at any parade. Just have a good time.
@@lizd2943 ... So basically stand up and clap ad nauseam.
@@JoesGuy If that's what you do at the Saint Patrick's Day Parade or a 4th of July parade or any other parade, you do you.
@@lizd2943 At least we're fully clothed in front of children.
@@JoesGuy Well... good on you for that?
I remember the first time that I saw a pride parade. It was in Rome in about 2004, and I was 17 or 18. I instinctively felt revulsion, and the feeling has never left me.
Why? Why do you care?
Trust me, as a gay man who has fought for rights for over 30 years, what pride has become disgusts me, and many many others. It's a fetish celebration now, and what happened to men's mental health awareness month? Pride has been co-opted by activists with a political agenda, and no interest in actually helping anyone but themselves in gaining power over others.
@@edwin5145because it's not about rights, pride is a political cudgel now, not the movement we started decades ago to push for rights. I'm gay, and pride disgusts me.
@@agingerbeard I don't get why it being political means it's disgusting. But very well you're free to not like it
@@edwin5145 it's the blatant fetish worship and the use of identities as cudgels that is disgusting.
As a traditional (orthodox) Christian I can confirm we would say you should go to church on Christmas. However, it is also a feast and time for celebration so we’re not going to ban gift-giving and alcohol lol
On a side note: It still blows my mind that so many self-professed Christians didn’t go to church last Christmas… because it was a Saturday!
For some context, if you have actually been fasting before the feast, during Lent or Advent for example, you are going to want a slap up meal to celebrate. This is very traditional. I would be interested to know what sort of Christians you were thinking of when you made this presentation as there’s obviously a lot of variety and it’s sounds like you’re talking about real Purists
In their defense, Saturday is always the day of rest
As an atheist I celebrate Christmas. I understand the meaning and the "war on Christmas" is nothing more than a made up and fabricated war. Saturnalia was around a thousand years prior. And before that, Yule. And before that....equinox celebrations of one kind or another for anybody paying attention to the seasons. I don't care how hard any religion tries, they will never, ever stamp out the need for people to come together and be kind to one another in the darkest hours of the darkest days and the coldest and harshest of times. That is just what humans do.
@@OceanusHelios Christmas shouldn't exist to you? Christ is in its name Afterall. If you are an atheist, you should have another name, another practice. But you don't, do you?
Unless you finally accept, the majority of your life revolves around Christian subjects, both holidays, and of course your "science". Maybe then you realize being an Atheist has no added benefits.
In America, it used to be the start of Summer Vacation.
The dislikes prove your point that they want you to sit down, nod and clap while you have nothing to do with it because to them your “opinion” doesn’t matter.
How do you see the dislikes?
@@lorenzomurrone2430 google extension
It's mostly a bunch of crybaby arguments. That's why. It's not that they want him to shut up or sit down. People just dislike crybabies.
@@lorenzomurrone2430 there's an addon you can get for web browsers called "return youtube dislikes"
@lorenzomurrone2430 You can get dislikes back if you go to chrome extensions and search it up, there's a few-
Nothing will ever change until we as human beings realize that the path to true equality does not start with acceptance, pride, or support, it starts with indifference. In other words, I don’t give a shit what you are, so neither should you give a shit about me or anyone else….
Exactly
The way to scale down a celebration that runs too long is to create a holiday within the holiday and gradually shift the focus towards that. For example, they could have started calling the first Saturday of Pride Month something like Rainbow Day and decreed that you were supposed to have a parade on that day in particular for reasons. They wouldn't even need to forbid people from having parades on other days because most people would only hold or attend one purely due to logistics. They could have then subtlety started speaking of it as the first week of June rather than the first week of Pride Month (which would be perfectly correct) and thus phase out the rest of the month.
That’s a smart way to do it.
☝️ This guy contains.
All of that work for a non-issue.
@@davidmays8974 maybe, but it’s not that fact that Pride shouldn’t be celebrated… well, the non sinful version. I wouldn’t celebrate the 7 sins. But Pride as we know should be on a more moderate scale of celebration. Quality over quantity, right?
@@pinheadious17 once you remove the sin out of Pride Month, what's left over?
The slippery slope argument came true. They said, "We're gay, just let us be. We're not coming for your kids. That's a conspiracy." Now, that's exactly what they're doing.
Are 'they' in the room with us right now? Can you show us on the doll where a parade hurt you?
Slippery slope is only a fallacy to people who don’t have long-term memory. If someone else’s goal is further along, they’ll keep pushing.
Crazy idea: children should know whether they're being abused or not, and they should know that being queer is fine and that queer people exist.
@@enceladus5736 Children should be allowed to be children. They should not be exposed to ideas like sex, or “queer”ness, or anything of the sort. It messes with their development in ways that most of the time just lead to suffering.
@@jakobr_ children need to be exposed to ideas like sex and queerness, because queer identities need to be normalized, and if you dont teach children basic sex ed, how do you expect to catch molesters? the rates of child molestation go way down when children know they're getting molested.
plus, if you don't expose children to ideas they don't understand, how do you expect them to grow? how do you expect them to be prepared for puberty if they don't understand what's going on with their bodies?
I AM NOT saying to do sexual things with a child, i am saying children need to know how it works for not only their safety, but for them to be prepared in the future. we're not showing kids porn or something, we're giving them necessary information for them to grow into healthy beings.
The Christmas month analogy reminds me of the Disney cartoon where Donalds nephews wish for Christmas everyday- they grow to hate it
Veterans' day and Memorial day are good examples of holidays dedicated to a specific demographic that don't piss off everyone. Probably because there's actually a reason to respect the ones being celebrated
I'm 38, and growing up I never once heard LGBTQ mentioned. Not once. I did hear LGB.
I'm 20, I had never heard the acronym lgbt until around 2017.
ignorance is bliss
First I heard of this was LGBT, and that was like 10 years ago probably.
Until 10 years ago gay people were just called gay or queer, although queer was considered a slur, and most people seemed to agree that it's ok to be gay.
Other than that, growing up I saw a lot of homophobia, but it was diminishing day by day. Now I hear the same homophobia ressurrected by young people, and the same slurs coming back, so it almost seems like the excessive focus on the alphabet club has had a negative effect on society, like we are going backwards now.
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when gay was about gay people, rather than celebrating the degeneration of society
@@fren111 sure you are frogman
It’s so incredibly disgusting that we have a month celebrating being gay, but only one day where we celebrate veterans who put their lives on the line for our freedom.
yup same shit for cops firefighters EMS all that
Well if you don't like it there are plenty of countries in Latin America that are quite religious and would be happy to have you. But honestly, we revere the military in movies constantly. Every day. What we don't have is a bunch of conservatives that want to PAY UP and make sure veterans get the care they need. The VA has failed a lot of those veterans. And if people would stop being butthurt over the color of flags for one moment and actually look at how the Republican led congress shot down VA assistance, then you'd know something.
Never accuse a conservative of doing homework. That requires them to look up from their big book of hypocricies long enough to have self awareness.
We have a whole month. It's November. Not our fault if they don't wanna celebrate it like LGBTQ people do
I get what you're saying, but "we" don't have a month celebrating sexual orientation and confusion. They do.
War should have more holidays tbh
I noticed that not a lot of people in my area celebrated pride month this year. There weren’t any big events in my town and it was pretty much just the corporations and stores shilling the pride stuff. I feel like due to all of the things America has gone through over the past 4 years, people in my country are just sick of that kind of stuff, which as a bisexual person I feel like should be concerning me but it’s surprisingly not. Probably because I was never really interested in pride month anyways. I always saw it as unpatriotic and a means to paint same sex attracted and bisexual people in a negative light.
Pride month and shoving degeneracy down people's throats does breed resentment towards it. Not all gay people are degenerates but that's what the month is about.
It's because (in actuality) in 2024 your sexuality is very unimportant to 95% of the population.
Yeah. They're basically trying to give people the impression all non-straights are hedonistic, self-absorbed, prideful degenerates, which doesn't have to be true. Unfortunately a lot of them seem to think they are compelled to join the culture just because of their sexuality, when straight people rarely ever agree with each other purely on the basis that they are straight
I am from Finland, love the midsummer. Here it's celebrated on the longest day of the year, since Finland is so far in the north summers tend to be bright around the clock. The celebration is less of circling around a pile of burning branches, although that is done sometimes too but more of like how Americans celebrate 4th of July, that but just less American. Grilling, drinking and other summer activities with all the family. I love it.
Is it related to the Slavic/Croatian tradition of "Ivanje" - St. John's Eve?
@@Aim54Deltayes! And Sweden and Norway celebrate St John's too.
Dancing around burning branches seems more fun than having to give your dog sedatives for the fireworks outside
@@allister-malister9179 Hell yeah. Poor dogos.
I think the tipping point, where the common ground went below 50% was the first half of 2016. That's where the election campaign in the US and the migrant crisis in Western Europe became serious. That's when a lot changed all over the west. Then early 21 was another tipping point where the virus thingy caused significant disagreement and the US had their little capitol party.
Yeah the 2015-2016's were an absolute political hellscape i remember as a Swede, our goverment played the humanitarian card, saying that "oh our country is healthy and rich, of course we should take all these refugees" causing a housing, health and crime crisis we are still paying for today, but it was very recently you actually were allowed to say ANYTHING opposing this madness without being called a racist pig.
Fuck the identitarians and FUCK the left!
I miss my home where i could walk the streets without getting robbed!
The Muslims will save us in Europe from this diversity bs, because they are so tolerant 😅
2012 is when lgbt activists started visiting schools saying Abraham Lincoln is gay seriously
capital party aka the fed agent walkout
@@Wecanhelp Gaybraham Lincoln??? Say it ain't so!!
The 90s had alot of gay propaganda just done really subtlety, the Simpsons had an episode where a gay guy saves the day & homer tells Bart it's ok if he's gay, it's not new its just their propaganda now has gone to shit, they forgot how to do their own messaging
It's like when they bring up "Star Trek was always progressive!" Yes, but it also used to be well written. When your message is crap, and your story is crap, and the acting is crap, no one is gonna want to consume it.
The difference between now and the 90s is that the majority of people can tolerate gays, as long as they keep their clothes on at their parade and don't touch kids I can tolerate them just like anyone else (if these two things were part of other ideologies I wouldn't tolerate them either). You can't force me to do more than tolerate your ideology, though, I will never like you or be prideful of your left-wing religion
It's not propaganda to occasionally show a gay person living a normal life.
it was subtle but the people were not. If you're american most of the slurs for gays originated in the 90's.
@@shaunmac6851 lmao facts.
Religious celebration coupled with feasting and moderate drinking is not really a weird compromise for anyone but puritans and muslims; for most of the rest of Christianity it was standard. The day a Saint is commemorated on can be known as their "Feast Day".
Muslims feast plenty during Ramadan, and especially on the 2nd Eid when laymen slaughter their animals for that specific purpose
Yep. Here in Brazil, which is a very catholic country, it's how it always has been. On Christmas Eve, my family gets together to hang out, then read a Bible passage about the birth of Jesus, sing Silent Night (in Portuguese, of course), then have a feast. Across the years I've been to Christmas hosted by 3 different families and they were all like that. One of them, in addition, celebrates the family matriarch who started the festivities.
Yup. And nobody is saying you can't do those things. It is almost like....to each their own. But if you look at the comments, it is really a big bunch of butthurt because people are choosing their own way rather than your way. It is almost as if: people have yet to ever see a magic apple or a talking snake.
@@OceanusHelios It's also kind of funny how most civilizations collapse around the time they become super secular, and we're seeing the same trends in our society. I don't give a damn about what makes you feel good, I care about society not collapsing in on itself. You religious atheist
For me it’s the “stay in room and don’t say anything on social media” month you can probably guess why
That's part of the problem. "Pride" month is its own form of censorship. If you say anything against the LGBTQ community, or even just say you're fine with being heterosexual, you're labeled as "homophobic". It's repulsive.
The 90s were pretty accepting of gays on a social level. The whole ostracized was earlier. Mind you the rural south would be different than the west coast, but generally in the US it was pretty accepting....at least on a social level.
I'm from the suburban south, ba k in the 90s it was more of a "don't ask don't tell" we just didn't talk about sexuality, it was ok, but keep it private.
I was in the South in the 90’s and no one cared. I knew 2 gay guys and they were really popular at school. I hate when people who have never even been to the South believe the stereotypes that Hollywood always pushed.
Same in Europe. I mean, of course there were jokes and stuff. But they were harmless, just a bit of fun.
What a mistake that was.
@@Mrwaitwhat100 I look at some comments and I think that the mistake was that their mother should have swallowed instead of going bareback.
I live in the recently safe red state of Ohio and can't remember seeing a single pride thing after the first week of June this year
I live in a state as blue as Vermont and the only pride anything I could find is on homes of people who obses over politics lol
It's partly responsible for making and keeping Ohio red so thank you queen folks for the W.
Only in Ohio
@@ChaseDemetro 💀 💀 💀
@@ChaseDemetro this reply makes me so pissed
My problem, as a gay no less, with Pride Month or Pride in general is that straights aren't celebrated unless they are an "ally", and even then the straights aren't celebrated, they're just... tolerated more than other straights. Which I think is stupid because I thought Pride stuck by "love is love." Another problem I have, and this is really based on my individuality, is that... why would I ever be proud of my sexuality- something that I have no control over? When I am proud of something, I overcame obstacles to earn it. Outside of videos and discussions like this, I don't announce or talk about my sexuality, and I certainly don't say or put words like "omg I'm gay af frfr" into my bios. Because of these, I don't celebrate Pride or really support it.
It makes me happy to see I'm not the only one who thinks things like these. Sometimes I feel I'm the only non-straight guy in the world that doesn't subscribe to far-left ideologies (for this case, pride month), and it's nice to have a reminder that there's other people with a neuanced view, regardless of which way they lean
Sexuality is not earned. What is there to be proud of?
Consider how boring you'd have to be to make your sexuality or gender identity into your entire personality and lifestyle. These people are incredibly dull individuals who have little or nothing going for them so they latch on these kind of identities as a way to have something to talk about.
I noticed in HS that girls would just say they're bisexual and date exclusively dudes because it got them to not be seen as evil by their peers who have also been brainwashed into thinking they're "LGBT". That was 10 years ago. They don't treat "allies" as equals, so you have to become one of them. How do you do that without messing with your life too much? Just say you're bi and "too scared to date girls cause of my parents" (who vote democrat and do not give a single fuck if you're gay. white people in portland will say things like this, these people lie so much it makes the entire movement suspicious.)
Nowadays it's with transgenderism, and you can see the exact phenomenon with non-binaries in HS and college aged women. A non-binary can be above an "ally" because they're trans, and because a non-binary person can literally just say they're however they want to present, most of these girls wind up dressing extremely feminine or not even changing ANYTHING about their presentation and just saying "i'm she/they" or some variation of that and suddenly they're a member of the T in LGBT. Or would they be the Q in LGBTQ? I can't keep track of this crap anymore.
The thing with Pride Month is that its real purpose isn't celebration; but social engineering and propaganda/indoctrination.
There's so much wrong with it, it shouldn't even be a thing.
Ha in the Orthodox church we have a 40 day period of purification before we meet Christ on Christmas. But we are fasting and praying these days. Definitely not giving gifts and having a dance. But I bring it up to make the point that this period of asceticism intensifies the celebration on the day of nativity and the week following.
That’s how Advent used to be done in the west until somewhat recently.
@@downinthecypressswamp2234 Lent is very important in the orthodox church (From a greek-orthodox christian). The reason that it got phased out is that nobody is willing to fast, repent, etc. for something like the easter bunny.
Mens mental health awareness month
I neglected this video in my feed thinking it would be a big waste of time, but, finally clicking on it, I find it interesting, with a soothing and pleasantly human (not AI) voice delivery.
" He's not an ai" was the best thing about this video, I could not think of anything else
Here in germany, until several years, people did not talk about pride month. There was the christopher street day but the pride month appearing is a rather recent thing
For me it appeared in 2020 which made me think it was a product of the Chinese flu
Just saw a load of Rewe Pride products. Plastic slippers and caps and T shirts and bags. I don’t think any have been sold yet
We need a White month here to celebrate our Whiteness...Sounds strange or?
@@supermaximglitchy1 not so subtle racism eh ?
Anything corporations and governments try to push on me I will reject no matter how pure the initial intentions may have been before they got involved
Good video. My only minor quibble would be about MAGA being far right when it is really just a return to the 80s conservativism. The left has hollowed out the middle.
I think the root cause of the division is based on the 90s. The media was kind to Clinton but he got his feet held to the fire and he reached across the aisle often. W got best up for the first few months but then 9/11 happened and we all united for about a year. After that everyone in DC pushed for GWOT and then left W with all the blame when it didn't work out like Grenada. They then spent the next several years attacking him in the media and pop culture.
Then Obama came on the scene and everyone treated him like a new messiah and the media never held him accountable for anything he screwed up. While most of the country didn't like him politically, he was always presented as nice and charismatic while he was driving the country to the left.
Then Trump came around as a reaction and he never got a fair shake. I don't even like him. But the constant attacks on him really divided the rest of the middle.
This is a genuinely refreshing and sane comment.
Great comment. This kind of division has been happening around the world and I think a lot of it is being driven by politicians and the media. Most people tend to have a lot of common ground in their views and want the same things for themselves and their families, even if they'll differ in how they think these goals should be achieved. It doesn't serve political parties or media commentators to emphasise this commonality because there's less to report about in the media and politicians would find it harder to differentiate themselves from their opponents who are practically the same in reality.
Making everyone as angry and divided as possible makes reporting much easier and generates more clicks, while politicians get less scruitiny of their own beliefs and actions when all they do is attack the opposition.
It kind of disturbs me that there are people walking around with such a secular view on identity. There's such an emotional moving goal post on equality when rationally we should think less of race/gender not more each year.
Youve made high quality, fair points.
you're damn right. if anything, they should be promoting treating people like people, equally. it seems rather silly to be doing the opposite
@@noxxyy That's why I really like how simple but wholesome the Christian belief on human value is. All humans are created in the image of God, therefore, all humans have inherent worth and value. No secular, ephemeral, shallow marker for human worth. It's just, inherent to each individual
@@noxplay4906 fair. now if only all christian folks were actually following that. it's unfortunate how a noticable chunk misses the point and uses it as an excuse to hate... when really, it's supposed to be a reason to coexist happily
This is what happens when corporations are running the world.
Think about all the ads for new holidays and every single event that takes place.
Remember how the internet was flooded with spam ads? Now they've found a way to not be stopped by ad blocks. Now they run the show and almost all content is just one huge ad or " in support of an ad"
Corporations have made you and myself the promoters. Demonetization forced content creators to choose a side.
Churches are just corporations. They shouldn't be demonetized, but they should definitely be taxed.
I think the difference between progressive holidays and traditional holidays is that there's an innate hostility with the progressive holiday. It's very existence is an act of aggression against you and your way of life. Traditional holidays aren't that way. They can range from benign, disagreeable, to enjoyable or even superb, but they are never hostile by their very existence.
Good god. Do we have to label everything according to somebody's political view now? Progressive holidays? Really? Don't conflate people celebrating something or being recognized and wishing to be recognized as a holliday. The butthurt and crybaby nonsense about this is what is making my stomach turn. Not because somebody is having a "Well my CHURCH didn't allow this and give you permission..." bullshit.
Little teensy eentsy whisper: We don't need your permission for anything.
@@OceanusHelios What else would you call "Trans day of visibility" if not a progressive holiday? Also, there's that hostility I was talking about.
@@OceanusHelioshostility
I cant believe no one has said it. "Pride cometh before thy fall." Pride is a sin. Is it not?
Yahweh isnt real
@@sixghill1925 I don't believe you're a person who exists.
@@o00nemesis00o i am. I'm just sick of the ethical discourse being done on Christian's terms. I felt like reminding the fact that sin means nothing to a growing portion of people.
Pride isn't a sin *in itself*, but it's a personality trait that can cause a person to be tempted to sin.
In the Bible, "pride" (the most common translation of the Hebrew גָּאוֹן, ga'on) tends to be used in the sense of "arrogance".
@@sixghill1925Quite the opposite, sin means a lot to secular society, it's just not called sin anymore
The current discourse on racism a great example of that
An aside about Easter- all of those seemingly unrelated aspects of the holiday like chicks, bunnies, and baskets filled with chocolate eggs had their origins in Christian symbolism for Easter. The chick represents new life, the rabbit represents eternal life (because they keep reproducing forever and ever), and eggs are the seemingly lifeless object that life emerges from like Christ's tomb. In many countries baskets full of foods that were not allowed to be eaten during Lent were blessed at church on Easter. No need to explain the chocolate. We like it so much that we added that to every holiday 😅😂.
Let me know if there's something I forgot!
They were actually borrowed from pagan symbology. I think the reason why progressive events are despised because they have no interesting traditions unlike Christmas, Easter and April Fools which is probably my favorite one so far.
ehh.. most of that symbolism, including the Name of the holiday, was coopted from germanic pagan spring celbrations regarding fertility and such. Mind you, it then quickly Became christian symbolism as a result. Similar things happened with a bunch of stuff, mostly with the intent of making conversion easier and reducing backlash.
Im from Austria, we celebrate St Nicholas (basically santa claus) on Dec 6th and the birth of jesus on Dec 24th. So we're just doing both :P
St Nicholas brings only little things like a few chocolates, nuts, tangerines, dried fruit and the "big" presents get exchanged on Christmas
My mother is German, we do the same thing here in the US.
In Spain we celebrate a second Christmas in January 6th, the day in which we commemorate the arrival of the Three Wise Men.
In Poland we do the same but on December 6th and you get a small present under your pillow
@bryanp7831 Really? I was an exchange student in Wisconsin 10 yrs ago and I don't think people celebrated it. I might just forgotten about it, but I think I'd remember if it was a big thing
Santa Claus is a capitalised and distorted version of Saint Nicholas
The smartest decision the Orthodox church in Serbia made a 100 year ago was to not reform the calendar so we celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. This insulated it from the commercialisation that appeared in the west and New Year took the mantle of what December 25th is.
I love this video. You fairly assessed both sides without demonizing either. I wish more people who are confident enough to vomit their opinion also have the thinking power you do.
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The progessive concept of the "allyship" has parallels in Islam: Dhimmitude.
Yeah, it is almost like like-minded people seek each other out. *GASP* Oh your god! Oh noes! But let's throw in islam because you want to change the topic. I could give bugger all less about ANY superstition, at all. If somebody tells me they are a Christian, I say, "big deal." If somebody tells me they are a Muslim, I also say, "big deal." Big deal. I don't need any religion. What I do need is for people to act like decent human beings, show a bit of empathy, and chill the f* out.
Wokeness 1.0 Feminism.
Wokeness 2.0 Intersectional Feminism
Next in 200 years it will be interspecies with aliens and Robots.
@@KINGCABA-if4nk that's already covered in the "academic" field in Intersectional Feminism.
Plus lots of wmn do bad things with their pet dogs.
Feminism is just marxism with the oppressors and oppressed as the sexes rather than business owners and workers
I do support feminism, not this radical bs
@@aravindmuthu5748 they are the same thing from day one, feminist dont know what feminism is, about , started, why, its origins.
or even the SIMPLEST concept that feminism itself is discrimatory due to its false narrative.
but media literacy and innate sexcist bias of women and their neutered men will follow that path of self importance and narccistic behaviours.
It’s a cultural over correction which inevitably will lead to a backlash swing in the other direction. We’re seeing this in real time. It won’t end well for anyone, and we will blame the woke for provoking it in the first place. The 90s were great. 😢
That's pretty well deserved blame too. They could've just let society progress at a slow rate in a healthy direction that respected all of us but no, narcissists had to make it about themselves and rush things. Now they're going to pay for it and I don't feel bad at all. 😊
Is this woke in the room with us right now? Can you show us on the doll where this woke hurt you?
@@OceanusHelios your sanctimonious attitude for a start
Keep cooking brother
As an atheist I still think Christ needs to be in Christmas
Otherwise it just would be Mas.
@@dyzmadamachus9842 Still, Mas is a shortcut for "mass".
@@aurexify Massachusetts? Should we really celebrate such evil and degeneracy?
(That's a joke for anyone unfortunate enough to live there)
Awesome pfp
Around here we still call it "Jul". You do know it's a repurposed heathen holiday, right? Thou shalt not steal?
"You know, Amy, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo" - Knuckles the Echidna
same thing goes with pride month, we won't have true equality until all sexualities and gender identities are normalised. Celebrating homosexuality will make it "special," and will ultimately otherise it. I understand the need of pride month nowadays, with the need to protest against anti-lgbt laws and such, but continuing to do so will just widen the divide between lgbt and cishet people. This is why I'm in for a pannormative society, not heteronormative or homonormative, just a society where no one cares what gender you're attracted to.
"Why should I accept someone for who they are. When they couldn't accept themselves for who they were."
i’m a bi chick, openly out of the closet for several years. when lgbt+ rights and equality started having a bigger push towards wider acceptance i was like “wow, that’s awesome, i’m so glad things are looking up for us”. but as time passes, even i find myself cringing at rep of queer folk in the media and general discourse. especially the insertion of lgbt characters in places they… really shouldn’t be ? like i don’t find it particularly necessary to have a children’s cartoon character introduce themselves as nonbinary, but okay. “odd, but i can deal with it” was my mindset. but then with all these new changes, people pushed back. i’ve never been nearly as targeted until recently, like the last 2-3 years when people started to really get tired of seeing it everywhere. i see more and more folks radicalized to bigotry and i can only assume it’s from the over-saturation and black and white mentality that a lot of “progressives” openly represent us with.
tldr: over celebration and representation isn’t helping anyone, in fact it causes more problems.
I do feel somewhat guilty. How could this be rectified?
0:20 June is not an empty month in the catholic world. We have celebrations that are a syncretism of old pagan midsummer celebrations. We call it St. John`s celebrations. The theme and aesthetics of the celebrations are related to farm and harverst.
I don't know, in my country we mostly light bonfires and fireworks
A lot of stuff gives me dread. Especially the stuff I agree with.
But your videos let me interact with this issues in a way that doesn’t make me fear for the future.
So thank you.
June is my birthday. I hate that the month of my birth is during the Pride Month. Pride is a Sin in the Bible lol they celebrate 2 sins in one month
your birthday lasts a whole month??? my condolences to your mom dude
Mine was yesterday, July 1st. I don't understand what that symbolizes exactly.
@@HeortirtheWoodwarden Canada's birthday in 1867.
The “pride” Pride Month is about is primarily the negative, hubristic pride born of dominance. This is also the pride that is meant by the sin of pride. It is a sin because one is proud to the point of erroneously feeling that one has a right to demand certain attitudes and behaviors from other people. The main criticized demand is for sexual lesbianism to be treated independently of projections of male heterosexuality.
@@Vyx__LMAO. Imagine getting birthday gifts each day for an entire month 😂.
Perhaps "What if Christmas were a month long" isn't the greatest analogy, because as far as the retail industry is concerned these days, Christmas starts on November 1.
Yes, in a sense. But I don’t celebrate Christmas for 2 months just because the stores start selling decorations and Christmas tress, in fact I hate it. In the US Thanksgiving comes before Christmas and there is no time set apart for that anymore. In my family it’s celebrate it for two days. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I don’t give gifts every day, I don’t prepare a big feast everyday, i don’t go to church every day, I don’t decorate every day. I do prepping and planning yes, buying gifts takes time and thought and meal and dessert making takes planning, and all that time if I put it together is a week at most, but the day itself is still only 1-2 days long.
I see Christmas stuff appearing in store in early October, and Hot Cross Buns in January.
Everything here essentially boils down to a religion based on positive values and a religion based on cynicism and greivance.
Christianity promises that all the ones who don't follow Christ will be tortured for eternity. This fact is central to the church. How is that not a religion based on greivance?
@@DanielTorresGonalezThat is what the Church says.
Yeah yeah. Everything is a religion blah blah blah blah blah. Some people need to touch grass.
I mean, I do understand how religious people can equate everything with a religion. After all, religions are based on believing in absurdities. Therefore, anything a religious person views as absurd, must therefore also be a religion too.
@@OceanusHelios Philosophically speaking, it is. Everything is a belief.
Religions are groups of people with a belief.
If you want a human to stop believing you need to get rid of a human mind.
Even Atheism is a belief. Even if everyone becomes atheist, it would only be a matter of time before another superstitious belief fills up the vacuum. It doesn't have to be a belief in a deity. Humans are irrational, stop believing there is a Utopian future based on rationality and truth. Those two go against the very principles of the mind and such society would eventually plunge into chaos.
I think Anarchism is a great example. Anarchists seek to abolish all laws. No laws means that there are no laws preventing you from creating new laws. The only way an Anarchy could survive is to enforce the "no laws" which would not make it a true Anarchy.
In the 90s as I remember it;
1) Left Wing & Ring Wing meant something different than what they mean now.
2) The prevailing question was, "What's the best way to achieve X goal". As apposed to, "Why isn't it better*? It your fault, you did it on purpose." * read, "The way I think it should be."
3) People went to "The Bar" after work, or on the weekend. And you knew if it was your kind of bar by answering 2 questions, "Is the beer cold?" and "Is the whiskey warm?"
4) Everybody didn't have a web site, blog page, FB, Insta, etc. Everybody didn't think their opinion mattered and must be heard
"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source."
True humility is the only antidote to shame
According to the moral foundations theory left leaning people prioritise a few select aspects over others whereas conservative people value all of them about equally. Some have hypothesised that this contributes to political direction (left leaning people finding it harder to understand the points of conservatives than the other way around).
I am gay, and I hate "Virtue Signal" month. Outside the bedroom, my sexuality does not define me as a person.
Well, that's convenient. But inside the churches they are defining you as a not good person. And that is the reason for the pride parades.
In some places in Glasgow, pride flags are displayed all year. I even know a few gay men and women who can't stand what it's mutated into.
wow. got an ad during the video for kfc's Christmas in july. it had a pride flag in the background.
Chicken Man said Gay therefore West is Dead
Wow - you are right in the middle of the Venn diagram!😝
@@elmike-o5290 LMFAO
pride month has always gave me the ick, not because of the message but rather the amount of corporate greed and pinkwashing I’ve seen constantly
Virtue signaling and everything you can imagine is being monetized. Nazi-ism....monetized. Pink washing, monetized. Anti-science...monetized. Oh if it isn't monetized, it is COMMUNISM!
This is a libertarian nightmare we are living in. Everybody wants to paly Monopoly until it gets towards the end of the game and the worth of money collapses, everybody is homeless, and nobody is going to be the slave to the winner. They just pack that box up and think: shit...monopolies and monetizing everything sucks. We should regulate this...give the little guy a fair chance at having human rights.
Yeah. Can't worship a Christ and Mammon at the same time. Who knew?
2016 was when I noticed it, might not have been the year it happened. I watched the Evergreen Collage situation and thought "This is just the start".. But in reality it started years ago, it just gained traction in the 2010s
I am glad someone is talking about this. I noticed a few years ago that none of our secular holidays had any meaning for me. I can’t muster up any interest in any of them because they are literally meaningless to me.
One thing i would like to add is that many conservatives here in the US at least were mad about Trans Visibility Day because it was made a national holiday and purposely announced when it was also Easter the same day and we saw it for what it was, a way to replace Easter every year it shares the same day.
Man, Trans visibility day exist since years ago, but Easter is chosed based on sunday and TVD is chosed based on day of month. This year both happend to be on the same day. They are just overreacting over this
It's primarily because the 90s and 00s was a time when Social Media and their algorithms were in their infancy. They really started ramping up in the late 00s til now.
So. Stay off of social media.
A perfect example of pride month being too long is Hanukkah. it’s only eight days and you’re technically supposed to give gifts on every day but most people only give gifts on one or two days
Love to listen to you. My husband and I we've been silent followers for some years. Keep up the good videos as long as you can and want to, of course!
Much love from Portugal 🤗
The problem with progressivism is the progress is never enough
Duh. Are you missing something? Do you think there is some end state? Perfect shape? No, there is only ever the pursuit of improvement
I can't wait until it's gone forever and rainbows can just be rainbows again, a beautiful gift from our Creator. ❤
I dunno, back in the day rainbows just reminded me of Irish people, and therefore terrorism.
Don't forget that the pride rainbow is a 6 coloured rainbow. This was done intentionally as a mockery of God's rainbow.
When most of the Protestant denominations split around the late 19th century into modernists and fundamentalists the church went through this same thing. Without the yin and Yang of each other the two sides grew rapidly apart. So that now we have progressive churches and evangelical churches that barely agree on anything now.
Our veterans get a day a year, but naked weirdos parading before children get a whole effing month??? It's sick!!!
Absolutely disgusting. Gay is reversible and can be weird but it doesn't harm anyone. Transgender is ridiculously atrocious because it is pushed onto children to mutilate their bodies permanently. I'm glad society is going back and realizing why this obviously isn't okay.
You're talking like Christmas was not historically celebrated with food, drink, and revelry. In fact this back and forth between Christmas as religious ritual vs. a fun holiday has happened before- the Puritans, for example, rejected the drunkenness and partying associated with Christmas in mainstream English society and therefore didn't celebrate Christmas at all.
or the Jehovah's Witnesses for a more recent example. they absolutely hate christimas
@@darkbeastzero yes but christmas is a christian holiday or sometimes a catholic holiday by moreso christian, Jehovah's witness is a very very different branch