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#Pride

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Since the support group meeting, I'm thinking a lot about pride. It's such a powerful tool. I'm not talking about the pride that is limited to the individual. I'm thinking about community pride. The kind that allows you to bypass your own shit by loving someone else. It enables us to learn to love ourselves by loving each other. Maybe you're not able to overcome your own shame, but I am strong enough for you. I love what I'm seeing. I love you because you survived. I love you because you are out there. I'm not ashamed! I'm proud! I'm proud because you're proud. #pride

"Organizers of the #NewYork #DykeMarch, one of the largest #LGBTQ #Pride events for women worldwide, announced that individuals identified as “#Zionists” will not be permitted to participate in this year’s march, set for June 28.

In a public statement, the group said it has formally added opposition to "#Zionism" to its list of core principles, citing a commitment “to the community’s values against Zionism, #racism and anti-LGBTQ hatred.”

ynetnews.com/article/hk624lcpy

ynetnews · 'Committed to Palestinian liberation just as to LGBTQ rights': New York Dyke March bans ‘Zionists’By Daniel Edelson, New York

A quotation from Cicero

No one, whether poet or orator, ever yet thought anyone else better than himself. This is the case even with bad ones.
 
[Nemo umquam neque poëta neque orator fuit, qui quemquam meliorem quam se arbitraretur. Hoc etiam malis contingit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 14, Letter 20, sec. 3 (14.20.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 724]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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