cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1476849
Archived version: https://archive.ph/0Su3f
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230815101452/https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/15/amsterdam-opens-trailblazing-skatepark-a-safe-haven-for-lgbtq-and-women-skaters
No, that’s not some “not quite perfect but definitely an improvement”-idea. It’s bullshit moving people out of sight. And no that is not “my addition” but a simply fact, one very prominently pointed out in the very first sentence of this report (“Nestled within a warehouse…”).
That’s a problem, a “but we did something to help”-diversion at best, but no solution.
Because out “of sight, out of mind” does never actually solve anything. It literally pushes LGBTQ out of sight so the homophobics hopefully find another topic to be enraged about… for some limited time only.
That’s not a solution. I thought we all had agreed at this point that solving the issue is about open and fair representation as a completely normal part of, as well as clear support in society…
(Just like being personally offended when someone doesn’t perfectly agree with you doesn’t solve anything. Or how did you interpret my criticism about cheering for a project that creates out-of-sight safe zones as anything other but critcism about the initiators of the project and the author of that report? Is there something on your mind that I should have read - between your … one line of statement? Yes, you can read that part as personal criticism or just dismiss it as a quip because I really have no clue where you found that hostility…)
I interpreted it as directed at me and my comment, because you wrote it as a reply to my comment, rather than a reply to the article.
The rest… i will leave you with that. I still disagree with your perspective.