re: Anyone attending the LSU LGBTQ+ Graduation?

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I’ve yet to get any call or email about donating (Bc am not an OT baller) but when I do I’ll be doing the same. They aren’t missing what little I can give them, but they won’t see a dime from me

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They always manage to find me even when I move or change phone numbers.

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I was contacted recently by a guy named Michael. I declined.

Michael, if you’re reading this, this OP is the kind of shite I was talking about

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The young girl that called me was sweet but I told her exactly why I'm not interested in donating anything

What is the point of these separate graduation ceremonies?

this is ridiculous. are they having special ceremonies for all heterosexual people? all bisexuals? all swingers? all dildo lovers? fudge packers only? all bottoms?

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I don’t see how this is trying to separate anything out.

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You don't see how having multiple ceremonies based on things like sexual preference and race are separating anything?

Again...imagine if this was the state separating these groups like this, and you'd see the issue. And willingly breaking into group likes this were prohibited by the very same people dong the separating now when I was a kid, because clearly if you wanted to be with people with similar interests then that meant you hated others or something.

What I'm saying is that those of us who are older see the shell game here, and it's why we're not happy about it. We actually took MLK's words to heart and have largely lived our lives by them

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But how is it segregation?

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What is the point of these separate graduation ceremonies?

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Attention. Separation. Exclusion.

That commercial would never air today

Are there non LGBTQ celebrations allowed?

I understand what you mean. I just don’t think that is applicable to this situation.

Self organization doesn’t necessarily mean exclusionary.

One of the executives at my old firm talked in depth about this concept once. He went on about how he was a a member of the women’s career advancement group at the bank, not because he was a woman looking for advancement but because it helped give him further insight into the lives of the employees underneath them and he made it very clear he wanted people to join lots of like organizations. And he was not a liberal dude.

Or at work I’m a part of some groups that have have a lot of upper management speakers. And anyone can opt into those groups but I’m the only one in my department who does. So I go to those meeting s and listen and learn stuff that isn’t secret shite. But I learn things way before my managers ever do because they don’t. My being a part of that group has given me what may be exclusionary knowledge, but that’s because through the basic principles of self organization, has allowed me to access stuff that I wouldn’t in any other way. That isn’t segregation, that’s organization.

Idk, I’m hung over.