I may have been a bit uncouth
Naughty, even. And yeah, I'd almost certainly do it again.
Last night, before I went to bed, I answered a question on Quora from a querent who seemed to think that because a certain senile orange-stained cumsock was back in power that pride was somehow canceled.
I woke up this morning to find that my answer had been:
Viewed 1500 times
Shared 3 times
Upvoted 158 times
Garnered a dozens of comments from detractors and supporters alike, and finally…
Deleted by Quora “moderation”.
In the defense of whatever anemic gerbil is sweating to death powering the automated Quora moderation bots, my answer almost certainly stepped over a line that violated Quora’s TOS. But I thought it was some good, if spicy writing, and so that answer will be reproduced in its entirety for the fine readers of Substack. Enjoy!
I need to make something abundantly clear to those bigots who think they’re somehow winning right now.
Pride has never been, at its heart, about corporate sponsorship, or speeches by queer-friendly politicians, or somehow holding events with the permission and blessing of the elites in power.
Pride was a thing back when it was illegal to be trans in public.
Pride was a thing back when you could be arrested for doing drag.
Pride was a thing back when you could be hauled out of your own home and thrown in jail for being gay IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME.
Pride was a thing when the Hays code made it untenable to include LGBT characters in movies as anything other than depraved villains.
Pride is our resistance to a society that says we cannot exist and we must be erased. Pride is how we let those who would murder and jail us know that we will not be cowed into silence. Pride happens even if the piece of dogshit currently befouling the highest executive office of this nation proclaims us to be illegal.
You know what’s gonna change? You know that nice corporate sanitized pride parade with the smiling well behaved fags and dykes throwing candy out to kids while fucking Toyota or General Electric paints their shitty corporate logo with rainbows? Yeah, you make us illegal again and the gloves come off.
The first pride put bricks through the windows of cop cars. It beat the shit out of cops. It chucked molotov cocktails. It demanded our freedom and our dignity AND IT WORKED. We know it works. We’ll do it again if we have to. But only if you give us no choice.
Fuck around, and you WILL find out.
Heh. Because of my job and recent drama I only sleep in short sessions, but I caught your comment and came to see this here.
As one of the people who upvoted it, I'd say it got chomped by someone who got all butthurt. Because it's definitely not that spicy. I mean maybe a couple of jalapeños, but no habaneros or ghost peppers.
If that was supposed to be incendiary, I won't be asking you to light the BBQ, I did however agree with every word you wrote. Although living in the UK as I do my support isn't worth any more than the traditional American 'thoughts and prayers' you do have my fullest support for what its worth.
On the upside this does look as if it could be an interesting place for me to continue on my quest to learn how to write, especially if Quora continues to disappear down the tubes, so thanks for that.