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So basically we should have "Irish Pride", "Polish Pride", "Jewish Pride" etc. days as well? Plenty of groups have overcome oppression but don't really have pride days. Just seems a bit weird.

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So maybe something like Irish-American Heritage Month (March), Polish American Heritage Month (October), or Jewish American Heritage Month (May)?

I take it you've not seen any major city on St Patrick's Day.. ;)

There's nothing that says any oppressed group can't designate their own pride celebration. I think you're making a common mistake in seeing the existence of this phenomenon that is tied to a certain class (or related group of classes) of people, and interpreting that existence as being somehow normative for all similar classes of people.

It's not.

Plenty of groups have overcome oppression, agreed. Many of the groups that march in Pride parades are not among those groups. If you want to make an argument based on ethnicity, then a close analogue would probably be black Americans -- who do have some Pride-like events, e.g. Black History Month.

I'm reminded of when people complain about Black History Month and ask, "When's White History Month, eh?" And the answer is that every month is White History Month. Because white people have more or less wiped black people out of popular history. This erasure is just as present for LGBTQ+ people.

Where exactly do you live that you have not seen these kinds of days and events and parades and so on all the time?

(If you're American, I don't know how you can live in the US and not have noticed this)

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