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.
It’s not just that. They didn’t adopt DEI and all these other measures in the imperial core just to assist in color revolutions. I don’t believe that for a second. It was always about distracting people from class and pretending capitalism could be a force for social progress, painting their exploitation of workers, their huge, uncaring mega-corporations with being you know concerned about gay rights or women’s rights or racial justice, etc. And some of it I’m sure was these people thinking that you know they could be good human beings at the end of the day by doing that kind of thing and wouldn’t have to give up their preferred economic exploitation of workers and the environment.
I think from that sprang the usage of these groups in color revolutions. They used to use gay people by blackmailing them that they’d out them to force them to work with the CIA but decided it might be more useful to have a fifth column that actually likes them and truly believes in the west being their liberators. It goes hand in hand with neo-conservative ideology of re-ordering the world to be a ‘better place’[tm] and that is now after Clinton, Bush, Obama, etc seeming to fall out of favor so this goes with it.
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.
It’s not just that. They didn’t adopt DEI and all these other measures in the imperial core just to assist in color revolutions. I don’t believe that for a second. It was always about distracting people from class and pretending capitalism could be a force for social progress, painting their exploitation of workers, their huge, uncaring mega-corporations with being you know concerned about gay rights or women’s rights or racial justice, etc. And some of it I’m sure was these people thinking that you know they could be good human beings at the end of the day by doing that kind of thing and wouldn’t have to give up their preferred economic exploitation of workers and the environment.
I think from that sprang the usage of these groups in color revolutions. They used to use gay people by blackmailing them that they’d out them to force them to work with the CIA but decided it might be more useful to have a fifth column that actually likes them and truly believes in the west being their liberators. It goes hand in hand with neo-conservative ideology of re-ordering the world to be a ‘better place’[tm] and that is now after Clinton, Bush, Obama, etc seeming to fall out of favor so this goes with it.