I’ve said it before but Trump’s second term seems to mark a shift. A real and probably enduring shift. After all they’ve had DEI and other -washing type initiatives since at least the 90s and they’ve picked up steam in the decades since, something like that isn’t necessarily discarded quickly without a thought so there’s some thought here on this shift. It’s capital in the west deciding that maybe you know trans people in the CIA and rainbow imperialism isn’t going to be enough, that maybe they need loyal soldiers in the core and to get them they need to shift to embracing the reactionary side of the culture war fully and trying to push America into a new age of reaction.
Time will tell but I predict that liberal/left-leaning shows and messaging are going to be strangled increasingly, censored, re-written, plain canceled as they push this into the wider culture much as happened in say the 50s with the second red scare.
I think pinkwashing just outlived its usefulness. You can see how a lot of color revolutions gets denounced by people pointing to the visibly queer people and rainbow flags within the crowd. A lot of Western NGOs gets flagged as Western NGOs because they also engage in pinkwashing. There’s probably going to be a revamp in messaging as the previous pinkwashing gets jettisoned for the sake of making the Western NGOs more easily blend into the crowd and operate incognito, even if it means adopting queerphobic talking points.
The queer people in those countries were set up for failure by those NGOs and now they will pay the price by queerphobic reactionaries within those countries.
I’ve said it before but Trump’s second term seems to mark a shift. A real and probably enduring shift. After all they’ve had DEI and other -washing type initiatives since at least the 90s and they’ve picked up steam in the decades since, something like that isn’t necessarily discarded quickly without a thought so there’s some thought here on this shift. It’s capital in the west deciding that maybe you know trans people in the CIA and rainbow imperialism isn’t going to be enough, that maybe they need loyal soldiers in the core and to get them they need to shift to embracing the reactionary side of the culture war fully and trying to push America into a new age of reaction.
Time will tell but I predict that liberal/left-leaning shows and messaging are going to be strangled increasingly, censored, re-written, plain canceled as they push this into the wider culture much as happened in say the 50s with the second red scare.
I think pinkwashing just outlived its usefulness. You can see how a lot of color revolutions gets denounced by people pointing to the visibly queer people and rainbow flags within the crowd. A lot of Western NGOs gets flagged as Western NGOs because they also engage in pinkwashing. There’s probably going to be a revamp in messaging as the previous pinkwashing gets jettisoned for the sake of making the Western NGOs more easily blend into the crowd and operate incognito, even if it means adopting queerphobic talking points.
The queer people in those countries were set up for failure by those NGOs and now they will pay the price by queerphobic reactionaries within those countries.