Elijah Schaffer critiques San Francisco’s Pride Month as a commercialized "Rainbow Capitalism" event, mocking Verizon and others for performative LGBTQ+ support while alleging tech giants like Google and Facebook host hate speech under its banner. He highlights six naked men walking near children during the parade, dismisses corporate participation as insincere, and questions whether Pride retains its original protest roots. Schaffer contrasts "choose life, love Christ" signs with accusations of hate speech, concluding that genuine critique isn’t bigotry but a necessary, suppressed perspective. [Automatically generated summary]
Welcome back to Slightly Offensive with your favorite gay black woman, Mia Lija Schaefer.
As she said, we have a lot hanging out today, including our appendages.
Some people call it the baby arm.
I just call it keep it in your pants.
But we want to fly around and find out what other cities think about this joyous day of walking around, celebrating who you have sex with, and apparently taking your shlonged donkey and showing it to all the kids walking by right here.
Look at this right here.
Boom, Right here.
But hey, who am I to say that a man can't walk around naked in front of children in public?
I mean, I'm pretty sure the law says that.
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What inspired the nun and the devil costumes together?
Homelessness is a real problem in Los Angeles and San Francisco in New York.
And, you know, I mean, you obviously can't know if you can trust anybody, but to hear someone say that everybody's ignored the person, you know, just it's kind of, it's hard to see, you know, that we say that being gay and who you have sex with is really the biggest issues in the world when people are hungry on the streets and dying from drug overdoses and medieval diseases, you know?
And it's like, it's sort of a, it is a pride complex to feel like my sexuality is more important than your livelihood.
And it's really weird how we've gotten so hedonistic and self-focused as a culture.
I don't like it.
It doesn't stay well with me.
Can I ask you about your sign, the hosting hate speech?
It's violence.
What does that mean?
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We're out here to protest Google's inclusion on the Pride Parade, considering that they continue to platform and allow hate speech on their site while claiming to also stand up and stand for their trans community and their queer creators.
The example with the Vox reporter being harassed by Steven Crowder and them allowing him to continue to use Louder Crowder and using YouTube as a platform.
It has been demonetized, but a lot of that hate speech is still on that site.
And we find it offensive that they come out here and claim to be supportive of the queer community when they can't even protect their own creators.
What do you guys think about the original startings of Pride as a riot, as a protest, and now it's been taken over by companies almost entirely?
It's gotten like, like there's just company after company after company trying to sell their products and say, hey, look, we love gay people, buy our stuff.
When it started about unity, there's very few community groups.
It's mostly just companies.
I mean, does that shock you?
Does that frustrate you?
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It doesn't shock me at all.
I think it's just important that people who are like in the queer community know that like buying something from a corporation during June doesn't mean like you're really supporting something.
If you really want to do something, you should support like queer businesses and queer communities and just like spread more awareness.
And like it's fun to like buy all the rainbow stuff, but like be aware that like there's more like going on.
And I think that corporate pride really overshadows that where they're just like, hey, look at all this stuff that we're going to sell you.
And they don't really talk about injustice in other countries.
It's mostly about like what they can capitalize off of.
I don't think hate speech should be protected, frankly.
If you're inciting violence against someone, if you're inciting bigotry, if you're inciting anything like that, I don't think you can stand a sane aside and say we're just the medium.
If they're going to be out here and promoting those voices, if they're going to bang out here and clearly taking a side on the issue and saying we are for queer communities, we are for, we are positive like queer creators, then they should be protecting them.
should be doing something about their platforms being used as cyber-bullying.
All right, I can't do that, but I can walk around with my out in public.
Anyways, it's like, you can't stand on Steam, but I can just put my out in front of children.
Welcome to Pride 2019.
Anyways, thank you guys so much for watching.
You know, the thing about Pride that I want us all to leave with is that I'm not entirely sure that people really care about who people have sex with.
I think people need to really come down to the fact that sometimes people just don't like Pride in this type of event because it's kind of disgusting in a lot of ways and really annoying.
And that doesn't mean they don't like gay people.
Actually, I know a lot of gay people who are not a big fan of Pride.
And they don't identify themselves by a group.
They're independent thinkers.
And who they have sex with is not a huge factor in their identity.
It's just, oh, there's a steam.
I'm not allowed to be near the steam.
Pull my c out.
I'm just kind of not going to do it.
But anyways, what do you guys think?
I mean, do you think that it's homophobic just because you criticize a movement?
Maybe you don't like parts of the movement.
That's the whole thing, man.
It goes with a lot of things.
You're not necessarily anti-Semitic just because you criticize Israel.
You're not homophobic because you criticize Pride.
You're allowed to be a critical thinker in this country, and that's what people are trying to stop, critical thinking.