The reaction to Heterosexual Pride Day on Twitter is an indication that “pride days” are not really about pride, but about using [insert “oppressed” group here]‘s Special Victim Status to instill guilt.
Never mind that you cannot logically be “proud” of plain old facts — from the Oxford English Dictionary (a real dictionary, one you’ll never see a Social Justice Warrior cite):
Pride: A feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of one’s close associates, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.
Skin color, gender, race, sexuality: like eye color and lactose intolerance, these aren’t achievements, they are unchosen traits, in any normal context.
You can’t properly be “proud” of your skin color — unless you’ve spent a lot of time in the tanning booth. You can’t properly be “proud” of your vagina — unless your “vagina” is where your penis used to be — in which case you can’t be proud of your mental illness that you didn’t get treated because everyone lied and told you it was normal.
You can certainly be proud of standing up for yourself, and standing up for and with others. Be proud to assert that you have a right to live how you want…
… if you’re not imposing on others. As time has worn on, “pride” movements generally no longer assert individual rights, they’ve devolved into screaming “I am a victim!” with the very deliberate implication that they are owed something. Come on, it’s the current year, straight people! Get over yourselves and get back to guilty feelings for [insert “oppressed” group here]:
you have 365 days of the year WITHOUT be discriminated. the lgbtq+ community can't go a minute. it's 2016. get over it #HeterosexualPrideDay
— chloe,. (@colourmefranta) June 29, 2016
Hell, some folks are even explicit about it:
#heterosexualprideday, a summary: pic.twitter.com/m1A7U1iu9v
— judgmental gay (@judgmentalgay) June 29, 2016
Here in reality, terms like “gay pride”, “black pride” are meaningless — just as meaningless as “heterosexual pride”. Normies, trolls, and shitposters all know it:
#HeterosexualPrideDay
The day that someone makes a joke hashtag, and everyone gets upset over it because it makes them feel less special— Nervatel (@Nervatel) June 29, 2016
All the SJWs are in a FRENZY over #HeterosexualPrideDay. Really sad given that they're the crowd who preaches "be proud of who u are" 24/7.
— Students for Trump (@SoCal4Trump) June 29, 2016
But the SJWs are triggered because they are victims, goddammit, and don’t you dare forget it:
#HeterosexualPrideDay How come every time a minority is proud of something a straight, white, cis-gender steals it? pic.twitter.com/fFsSlsvm62
— ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ (@thefinaIgoodbye) June 29, 2016
#HeterosexualPrideDay is just as stupid and unnecessary as white history month. Stop being stupid
— RIP ALI (@TripleBeees) June 29, 2016
The fact #HeterosexualPrideDay is trending makes me think we should take the right to free speech away from me & my fellow straights.
— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) June 29, 2016
How I feel about #HeterosexualPrideDay pic.twitter.com/BSFLX4HQK0
— Moan of Lisa (@yosoymichael) June 29, 2016
But no matter how hard the SJWs may argue otherwise, everyone is still an individual and capable of thinking for themselves.
That’s right folks — unbelievably, even blacks and gays are actually individual people, not cogs in a giant groupthink machine! (Can you even imagine such a thing???)
You don't have to be oppressed to be proud. Idiots. #HeterosexualPrideDay
— Pull Up Patriarch (@MyTweetsRealAF) June 29, 2016
If str8s want to have #HeterosexualPrideDay let 'em have it. We gays don't get to decide who's proud of what.
— Peter Edwards (@standuppete) June 29, 2016
It’s hard not to “celebrate” Heterosexual Pride Day and revel in the butthurt. Enjoy it while you can, it only comes once a year!