Musk said: 'Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate'.Gadde decided that their reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop was obtained from hacking, but Twitter later reversed the decision and apologized.The paper was reacting to Musk on Tuesday singling out the decision made by Twitter's lawyer Vijaya Gadde to suspend The New York Post's account.Musk, in response, tweeted: 'The Washington Post targets me relentlessly! Their insults could be higher quality, but some are not bad'.The Washington Post published on Wednesday an article entitled: 'Elon Musk boosts criticism of Twitter executives, prompting online attacks'.But for a lot of the LGBTQ+ community, pride is still a protest.'The Washington Post targets me relentlessly!': Musk defends himself against claims he directed hatred towards Twitter's $17m-a-year lawyer for censoring Hunter Biden laptop and suggests New York Times buys fake followers Living in a big city can make life easier to be out and proud of who you are. Should the same question be applied to people who tag along to parades? If that’s your one action of solidarity for the whole year, should you be wearing a rainbow at all? Then again, sincere or not, showing the world that much rainbow doesn’t seem so bad either.Īhalya Srikant, Research Fellow: I agree with Jason that sometimes we have to put aside our own standards for the good of the community as a whole. Josie Colt, Gear Fellow: My question is: Do corporations ever fly flags out of sincere support? Unless they’ve shown other actions of allyship, rainbow-washing seems like an attempt to appear hip, hop on the current bandwagon and make a few bucks while they’re at it. Capitalism! But in this case, it also means seeding a homophobic world with more symbols of love and support. Obviously companies want to look cool and sell stuff. Even our stupid cable company supports him.
#GAY PRIDE MEMES SECURITY TV#
Then their cable company-distant, bureaucratic, soulless-tweets, I don’t know, a rainbow flag on a TV screen. Maybe they’re religious, or don’t have gay friends, whatever. Jason Kehe, Senior Associate Editor: To be perfectly frank, I don’t know what the big deal is. (I mostly just bring this up to mention Food 4 Thot, because they’re very funny and everyone should listen.) So I imagine it’s something that’ll be discussed for a while. I was actually at a live taping of the Food 4 Thot podcast last weekend and this very topic came up and I was kind of relieved that most of the panel had the same mixed feelings. But my issue isn’t specifically with Apple, a company that actually has a track record of supporting LGBTQ+ causes (and an openly gay CEO), it’s with the way rainbow imagery gets co-opted to benefit groups and individuals who aren’t LGBTQ+.
![gay pride memes security gay pride memes security](https://ruinmyweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/17-memes-that-are-equal-parts-gay-and-hilarious-7.jpg)
It irritated me that this massive tech company would be making money off a symbol that not only represents joy and celebration, but also the LGBTQ+ community’s long history of struggle and oppression. Justice Namaste, Social Media Coordinator: Well Angela, I really started thinking about the idea of rainbow-washing after seeing Apple’s ‘Pride Edition’ Apple Watch wristband that they announced during the WWDC keynote a couple of weeks ago. What about you guys? Justice, I think you were the one who first mentioned rainbow-washing the other day. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera take on the cops at Stonewall to sell T-shirts?” And honestly, I don’t know if I’ll ever have an answer to that question. Sometimes I walk past a window display and think “Did Marsha P. Over time, my feelings have gone back and forth. They might’ve been shallow attempts, but they always seemed better than the days when companies didn’t want their names associated with LGBTQ+ people at all.
![gay pride memes security gay pride memes security](https://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/filestorage/floats-gay-marriage-parade-gays-military-same-sex-pride.png)
![gay pride memes security gay pride memes security](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/858/258/3bd.jpg)
For a long time, I would get excited when I saw companies doing Pride-related ads etc. Angela Watercutter, Senior Associate Editor: I’ll start, but I’ll keep it quick.