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    2. monosuperboss1 on

      FYI, the „+“ in 2SLGBTQ+ stands for everything else that wouldn’t practically fit under the umbrella

    3. tgspeed7287 on

      Genuine question: would it not make more sense to have a single, uniform term to represent the community rather than confusing and inconsistent acronyms? For example, ‘The Pride Community’ seems like it would be all encompassing, easy to understand and inclusive.

    5. Dry-Membership8141 on

      Just gonna throw this out there: Indigenous men are murdered at roughly 3x the rate of Indigenous women.

      If this is about inclusivity, why are they omitted? The article tells us that:

      >The full acronym has been used for years in government, advocacy, and community contexts to emphasize intersectionality. It is intentionally lengthy in order to name everyone who has historically been left out of national conversations about violence, justice, and safety.

      but are we seriously going to pretend that Indigenous men, at least as victims, *haven’t* been left out of national conversations about violence, justice, and safety?

      Couldn’t we just say „missing and murdered Indigenous *people*“?

    13. CheeseSauce_86 on

      I know MMIWG2, and LGBTQQIA+ but never altogether.
      It’s two separate entities, as far as I know.

    14. OrangeCrack on

      Alphabet people is starting to sound more and more reasonable rather than just trying to guess the right acronym that’s currently in favor.

      IMO, the cause has not been helped by adding any additional letters beyond LGBT, it’s just made the whole movement seem silly. I say this as a socially liberal person who supports equal rights for everyone, that this dialog is only feeding the fire on the wrong side of the equation that is raging stronger everyday.

    17. pottymonster_69 on

      You know, I’m all for the message and what they’re about. But they’ve gotta understand that so many people, possibly even a majority of people, are gonna see an acronym like that and roll their eyes and tune them out.

      They gotta workshop that one.

    18. honk_incident on

      This is the kind of thing that makes people roll their eyes and shut out everything they perceive as left.

    21. Unlucky_Accountant71 on

      A stupid acronym. Just say whatever it stands for instead.

      This is getting ridiculous

    22. Longjumping_Crab_345 on

      Ok I know it’s more fun get upset without reading, but i just looked at the article. It’s an acronym used largely by activists specifically referring to the ongoing violence against Indigenous women and LGBTQ+ people. It’s like a hash tag that basically means calling attention to the disproportionate violence against „Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, 2 Spirit and LGBTQIA+ people“.

    23. stereofonix on

      This is just getting out of hand. How are missing and murdered Indigenous Women a sexual orientation or tied up into this. 

    24. its9x6 on

      This right here is why the fringe left (and right) aren’t taken super seriously.

    25. Intentioned-Help-607 on

      I’m as progressive as anyone else with a brain, but I got off the boat at LGBTQ (maybe somes +). Now we are adding murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls? How about an H for homeless? How about DV for domestic violence victims? R for robbery victims? How about D for disabled, another A for autistic, and another S for those who attempt suicide? A third S for straight? P for pets? Another I for imaginary friends?

      This is why progressives lose people and why conservatives win. They take their good intentions and reasonable efforts to be inclusive, understanding, and advocating and take it to a level where almost nobody is.

      What did grandmother say? “So open minded that your brains fall out.” or what does my friend say? “The social/political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s a circle. So left you’re right.”

    26. rainman_104 on

      Mmiwg is fair game. Missing murdered indigenous women and girls.

      Mashing it with the rest idk. There isn’t anything necessarily gay or straight about them. The mashup is a bit weird.

    30. giant_hog_simmons on

      Speaks more to our society’s love for pigeon holing and categorizing. People who identify as any of that aren’t immune.

    32. FogTub on

      If I don’t know someone’s deal I’ll call them „friend“, and treat them how I would want them to treat me.

    33. cptmcsexy on

      The part im confused about is Im not sure how we are commiting genocide, she seems to be talking about the present not the past. Isn’t a lot of the problem due to gladue anyways?

    34. Acolyte2TheDude on

      If you find yourself trying to describe something and want to be taken seriously do not use a *sixteen* character acronym. Something so long reads as parody or bad satire.

    36. WiseDebt7345 on

      It sounds like all these groups are coming closer to realizing that all lives matter.

    39. CanadianPropagandist on

      I’m extremely progressive and I’m not committing all that to memory. That’s some Eddington level parody.

    41. Winnipeg-Bear on

      So many letters and numbers have been added, that it takes away the power of the original intent.
      I’m LGBT+, that’s all the letters that’s needed. Anything else just seems like an attempt to ‘hitch a wagon’ to further another cause.

    42. Greghole on

      Murdered and missing indigenous women and girls (no idea how they got lumped in), two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and the + covers everyone else who isn’t just a straight white man.

    43. CrackerJackJack on

      Can I identify as missing just for tomorrow’s work meeting — Then I’ll be found.

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