"Oppression Olympics": 'Queers For Palestine' Protestors Interrupt, Clash With Pride Parade In Streets Of Philadelphia
What does it look like when the woke snake starts eating its own tail? This weekend in Philadelphia may have offered up a glimpse..
Pro-Palestine protestors clashed with a Pride Parade in the city's "Gayborhood" area on Sunday. And to think, it's only 3 days into "Pride Month".
In a video shared online, Pride participants in leather and lace were stopped by pro-Palestinian LGBTQ+ members, some wearing keffiyehs, who disrupted the parade to confront fellow community members, as the Daily Mail detailed.
The protest, led by Queers4Palestine, highlighted the perceived parallels between Palestinian oppression and historical prejudice against LGBTQ+ people.
During the disrupted Philadelphia parade, they chanted "The more you try to silence us, the louder we will be!" along with "From the River to the Sea."
NEW: LGBTQers and pro-Palestine protesters have a standoff at the Philly Pride Parade.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 2, 2024
Remarkable.
Pro-Palestine protesters were seen blocking the path of the LGBTQ pride parade.
"Tense moments as Palestine Protesters block Philly Pride Parade as it heads towards Gayborhood,"… pic.twitter.com/3vjh8ncGHR
The Daily Mail added that one protest leader, dressed in a crop top, cargo pants, and a keffiyeh, declared that Pride has become a tool of public relations, inseparable from the political and economic context.
Critics often question the support LGBTQ+ protesters show for a culture that largely opposes their lifestyle, noting that in places like Gaza, LGBTQ+ activities and relationships remain criminalized.
This has sparked debates about the rationale behind LGBTQ+ support for the Palestinian cause, especially when it seems to divide the community.
'You should march in Gaza,' one X user wrote in response to the protest. Conservative commentator Clay Travis added: "Pro Palestine protesters blocking the Philly pride parade from continuing is a perfect distillation of left wing politics. This is where it inevitably ends: with two left wing interest groups colliding in an oppression Olympics standoff."
Disheartened by the protesting chaos? Don't be. "Even though it feels like there’s nothing to look forward to, I will say this," Zero Hedge contributor Quoth the Raven wrote last week. "There will be no crueler or more deserved irony than the day that today’s self-absorbed, traffic-blocking, soup-throwing activists realize they’re not revolutionaries — but rather the same authoritarian, censorship-wielding, group-thinking, malleable automatons they once thought they were fighting against."