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Queer Activists Are Making BDS a Key Question of Pride This Year (truthout.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] dumples@midwest.social 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought pink washing was fake support for women's rights and rainbow washing was fake support for queer rights

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://femmagazine.com/feminism-101-what-is-pinkwashing/

Pinkwashing was first used to refer to companies that superficially supported breast cancer awareness. It has since been used to refer to companies that superficially support queer people. Given the context of the op's article, pinkwashing or rainbow-washing could be used interchangeably. Using pinkwashing to refer to companies using the pink ribbon for disingenuous marketing campaigns is still a valid usage of the term.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

That's what I thought. It made sense in context but I thought it was about something else