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Look, my point is much simpler than that. What the over-corporatized, commercialized "Pride parade" meme is doing is explicitly erasing the very real distinctions between pride and dignity/honor on the one hand, as well as shame and modesty on the other. No other social/political movement is doing that, whether involving marginalized people or not[1]; so no, one can't simply assert that "Pride is just social/political affirmation" and leave it at that; this is simply not what's going on. Is this really what we want as a society? That's quite arguable to say the least!

[1] (And since the most basic way of countering social marginalization is to build up social capital, the "pride" attitude is something that, as a matter of fact, is directly detrimental to this goal. "Pride" is bad precisely because it corrupts and destroys social capital as much as shame does!)