#rainbowwashing

[rowanellis]

Gay for Pay: The Dystopian Tactics of Rainbow Capitalism

"People often believe that they have some sway over these companies, in the same way we see the later iterations of Godzilla being brought onto the side of humanity. But are they just tricking themselves into thinking they are the ones controlling godzilla.org – when, in fact, it is an uncontrollable entity from the depths of capitalism, which acts entirely in accordance with its own interests?"

Watch the video essay here!

[doctorkaiju]

Comrades, remember that the gen-enabling ADL will be tabling and marching at Pride events in June. Oppose the rainbow-washing of atrocities! Prepare to protest them.

[b0ringasfuck]

Ci starei attento a tifare "ammazziamo tutti gli omofobi" mentre si frigna del Pride esattamente come si frigna del 25 Aprile.

Imparate a dare il buon esempio... non basta baciare le mani di una senatrice per far sparire la collezione di busti di mussolini.

E allora Bibbiano? E dov'erano le femministe quando...?

Poi vogliono le donne a stirare e fanno spallucce quando in chiesa si inculano i bambini.

Autoinculanti. E come capita sovente, pure masochisti nel profondo: sottometteteci tutt*, grezzi bastardoni islamici sempre in gruppo.

[hog-babe]

went to a fucking amazing pre-pride party, stayed out till 3, accidentally joined a french-speaking anarchist group at the parade and tous :-) les queers :-) détestent la police :-)

[cleverpaws]

oml don't you guys hate corporate rainbowwashing during pride month 😐🙄🙄

[moonshynecybin]

YESSSSSSS you see the visionnnn

Like I love oxleybom for their deep love of the sport and knowledge of the culture and explaining all the technicalities and how they perceive the narrative. but sometimes I remember these are middle aged men longing for the glory days of the 80s and the utter shambles they would be in for not anticipating this. Mat having been in the paddock all these years, visited vale in his club tax evasion flat (def stocked w poppers) absolutely tearrrringgg his proverbial hair out that he was so blind. 

I think they would rise to the occasion in spinning this into their motorbike yarns but you just knowwwwwww that would be a mindfuck for them.  

Part of their journey recontextulising vale/Marc rivalry has to be a fraught realisation that they’ve labelled the only two (known) gay people in MotoGP grinning assassins & they have to release an emergency statement that they don’t think all gay people at killers, just these two, and that they support gay killer same sex love too ❤️

just the comedy of the sporting world reeeeeling from rosquez announcement is my fave campy bedtime delusion (homophobia doesn’t exist.) like MotoGP accounts overcompensating w the rainbowwashing, Insta captions like“Hi Gay 😃 Joan Mir says the Honda RC213V's Unrideable! Speaks on new contract extension for 2 years” 

i just think it would be really funny in the sense that. okay so as a journalist you are kind of being paid to explain this sport to people in a way that captures their interest. this can be done on the technical side (rules, tires, machinery, braking) ORRRR the human side (narrative, character, plot). a good journalist can usually balance these factors and write about them in such a way that a layman can access them and be. well entertained ! it’s an entertainment game here. so when we look at how these prevailing narratives are made in sport, we often have to take a look at what the journos report on and how they do it. of course as fans we can draw out own conclusions from the words directly out of these athletes mouths, but it’s the reporters who ask the questions that create those narratives, and then work to shape them into something cohesive. stories are allowed to live and allowed to die through the press corp writ large. it’s on them.

all this to SAY. that if the largest plot line between the two biggest stars in motogp that stretches back almost a DECADE in one of the most absurdly hypermasculine sports in the WORLD was suddenly revealed to be a torrid gay DIVORCE. i don’t know if these guys would know how to ACT. i mean i suspect their status as content peddlers would immediately become VERY apparent but watching them have to. essentially reshape their perceptions around these events as something that is NOT entirely based in sporting challenges/professional competition but also as something deeply personal that happened to these guys’ RELATIONSHIP (which paddock pass pod gets at in their 2015 restrospective but doesn’t like. commit to, bc they are primarily dealing with the sporting side. like they are like WOW marc and vale only seem concerned with each other not the championship. weird.) would be interesting ! so often the rosquez divorce is talked about as something that happened entirely on the track and. well i don’t get the sense marc and vale really entirely feel that way AT ALL

[dyggot]

there's going to be a lot of rainbowwashing this june. remember the bds list, don't let rainbow capitalism get you. free palestine.

[subjxctseventeen]

ac gays do we think abstergo would rainbowwash their logo for pride month yes or no

[superswimteam7]

Did you know that the military provides funding for Marvel movies in exchange for "oversight" and influence over the scripts? Or about the racist Chinese Black Panther posters? How about "Rainbowwashing" and queerbaiting in the MCU? Well I'm covering all of that and more today!

[indigoipsum]

It’s finally done. The cursed Maurice Youtuber trifecta based on @anawkwardlady and @hateweasel’s posts. Maurice calls out Funtom for rainbowwashing, then posts a homophobic speculation video about Ciel and Alois, then gets called out and loses 30k subscribers.

Yes I referenced the Laura Lee apology video for the last one

[astral-cataclysm]

i'm in here

[kaoinim]

sorry I know it's an appealing idea but literally the only thing all trans women have in common in being trans this is just rainbowwashing the same rhetoric as an inherent sisterhood between all women

[sweebread]

help where is the tweet mocking rainbowwashing corporations "thats why representation is so authenticity, slay" i need it for funny reasons

[rachedurst]

I really wish more white queers acknowledged homonationalism and rainbowwashing as a political strategy and that western european governments will gladly jump to "support" gay rights if they can use it to villainize refugees and anything not western/north european enough to "protect our poor white gays from the homophobic backwards eastern or brown people"... So many white queers just do not see an active danger in how poc are pit against queer people by the oppressors, completely ignoring queer poc in the process

[y2kbubblegum]

Big corporations from June 1st to June 30th when they rainbow-wash their products thinking they’re an ally & helping the LGBTQ+. But the 🏳️‍🌈 community knows its all about 💵💰 #pride #rainbowwash