Pride Month
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Pride Month is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 12, 2021 and October 10, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “woke capital” celebrating Pride Month”; “Maybe Pride Month is the clearest example of this working in the modern era”. It most often appears alongside United States, US, 2017 presidential election.
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- Category: Events
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 12, 2021
- Last seen: October 10, 2022
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- 2017 presidential election (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Richard Hanania of the Center For The Study Of Partisanship And Ideology asks "why is everything liberal?" Given that there are approximately equal numbers of Trump voters and Biden voters in elections, how come we have "woke capital" celebrating Pride Month, instead of unwoke capital celebrating some conservative cause (as might have happened fifty years ago)? How come conservatives worry about censorship by liberal tech companies instead of vice versa? How come conservatives worry about college turning their kids liberal instead of vice versa?
Maybe Pride Month is the clearest example of this working in the modern era, from back when gays were more persecuted and before it was endorsed by cities and corporations? The rationalists have also succeeded at this within their subcommunity in a smaller way - Petrov Day, Smallpox Eradication Day, and others have managed to sort of catch on, with maybe a few hundred people celebrating them yearly. Maybe this suggests that small tight-knit groups (gays were a small tight-knit group whenever Pride started) can still do this, and then sometimes they catch on? Maybe this is the only way organic holidays ever form?