Why "Pride" is patronizing and insulting to the LGBT

Now, this is going to be a politics post. Yes, I'm Christian, but before you read further, I'm not going to bring that up here except to say Christianity says pride goeth before a fall, and politically, you'll see why that is relevant as you read on.

These days, corporations, social media, and anyone afraid of being canceled or harassed by the LGBT crowd (these days the last letter in particular) will immediately throw up a rainbow flag and simp for the LGBT, no matter how relevant or irrelevant it may be to their product or service, just to virtue signal.

However, I just want to clarify why this is a patronizing practice that needs to stop.

1. The sane LGBT (yes, they exist)  just wants to fit into society. The original Pride parades had members of this community marching in normal clothing to show they could be members of their society without sticking out like a sore thumb, they just wanted to not be spit on for what they did in their own bedrooms. Modern-day "Pride" totally misses this point by a mile, and you'd be forgiven for thinking Pride means wearing gimp suits in public and juggling dildos in front of children given the current day version.

The morality aside, if you want to make the LGBT look vile and depraved, modern-day "Pride" is doing a great job.

2. "Pride" is such low-hanging fruit in any country where you won't be killed or imprisoned for showing it if you are LGBT. Anyone from a country where such things remain capital crimes is not impressed and despite how woke the virtue signaling corporations want to be where they risk nothing save the respect of potential customers, they have found doing so in countries with no respect for such things is a great way to be canceled and even getting literally lynched. It's hypocrisy incarnate they run screaming from showing rainbow flags where they risk everything yet think showing it where they risk very little makes them virtuous.

Really, it makes them cowards.

3. Another reason this is politically asinine is because the LGBT originally wanted to be seen as more than a token political sop. They wanted to let people know they were just like everyone else, they just were attracted to non-heterosexual partners. These days, with so many made-up genders and sexualities and trying to destroy any distinction of a gender binary (to the point of telling people to deny their eyes, ears, brain, conscience, etc), this is becoming a farce. If there are no meaningful differences between sexuality, gender, and it all is one big slurry of whatever is politically convenient, it's pointless. Those who stand for everything stand for nothing. 

4. Politically, all the LGBT "Pride" is doing is disgusting those who already had something against it, disenchanting those who realize reducing it to a political cudgel is long-term unwise, offending the more reasonable supporters who hate being patronized, and just radicalizing the segment of that community that is considered the hedonistic "fringe". It's like the bizarro world "alt-right" in practice and is just further widening the already massive split in society by saying if they are not slavishly supported, you're Hitler. Even passive tolerance is being called bigoted these days, when that was and should be the beau ideal for any group that claims persecution.

If such was wrong to enforce segregation, then it's wrong to do the reverse.

5. Finally, this is just a plea for sanity. Politically speaking, whatever one wants to do in the privacy of their own bedroom and whom they are attracted to are their business, so long as the parties can legally and morally consent. In that sense, one should be proud to have the choice to do so. That said, trying to force others to be proud and pretending you are by all the "Pride" virtue signaling is just going to have the opposite effect long-term, and to those with so much Pride, consider this a warning from someone who considers themselves politically moderate that your "Pride" will be your downfall.