The left is very tolerant...unless it's something they disagree with, of course. Then fuck your free speech.


A day before the city's massive annual Pride Parade, the 21st Annual Dyke March drew over a thousand people to its first march and rally in Little Village this year, bringing with it plenty of rainbow flags and slogans supporting trans people and people of color. However, in the wake of the march the Chicago Dyke March Collective has faced accusations of anti-semitism over a controversial decision to ask some Jewish people to leave the rally. An updated response from a Dyke March organizer is below.
The annual Saturday march is often celebrated for feeling less corporate and more racially inclusive than the annual Pride Parade, and marchers chanted "We Are Dyke March" in Spanish and English as they made their way from the corner of Lawndale Avenue and 26th Street to Piotrowski Park. Some of our favorite signs we spotted between the parade route and the park proclaimed, "Gender is fake, do what you want" and "Sanctuary for all, no exceptions."
Still, there were some contentious moments in this year's march: a small cadre of Christian extremist protesters gathered at the park's edge, where they chanted homophobic rhetoric until a marching band from Dyke March marched around them and drowned them out. According to the Windy City Times, three Dyke March participants were asked to leave by organizers because they were carrying Jewish Pride flags—a move that confused and angered some, but was lauded by others who thought the flags represented an anti-Palestinian point of view. The Windy City Times has a full story on the decision, but here's one excerpt:
According to one of those individuals—A Wider Bridge Midwest Manager Laurel Grauer—she and her friends were approached a number of times in the park because they were holding the flag.
"It was a flag from my congregation which celebrates my queer, Jewish identity which I have done for over a decade marching in the Dyke March with the same flag," she told Windy City Times.
She added that she lost count of the number of people who harassed her.
One Dyke March collective member asked by Windy City Times for a response, said the women were told to leave because the flags "made people feel unsafe," that the march was "anti-Zionist" and "pro-Palestinian."
"They were telling me to leave because my flag was a trigger to people that they found offensive," Grauer said. "Prior to this [march] I had never been harassed or asked to leave and I had always carried the flag with me."
Update: Iliana Figueroa, a Dyke March Collective member, spoke to Chicagoist Sunday afternoon about the mounting criticisms on social media that Dyke March is facing in the wake of the march for the decision to ask the three people to leave. She says the Dyke March Collective is not anti-Semitic, and the decision reflected the members' desire to support pro-Palestinian participants who believed the flags symbolized Zionism.
"Yesterday during the rally we saw three individuals carrying Israeli flags super imposed on rainbow flags. Some folks say they are Jewish Pride flags. But as a Collective we are very much pro-Palestine, and when we see these flags we know a lot of folks who are under attack by Israel see the visuals of the flag as a threat, so we don't want anything in the [Dyke March] space that can inadvertently or advertently express Zionism," she said. "So we asked the folks to please leave. We told them people in the space were feeling threatened."
Figueroa also said she gave the people her cell phone number and offered to discuss the decision with them more later. She added that they didn't leave immediately, but stayed at the Dyke March rally for "a few hours."
Figueroa added that the collective will release a statement on the incident after it finishes crafting one, and that members have asked pro-Palestinian organizations and others to release statements of solidarity with Dyke March as well. In the meantime, the collective is facing accusations of anti-semitism on social media.
Chicagoist is working to contact the people who were asked to leave, and will update this post if we hear back.

So I guess they are saying they accept Palestinian gays, but not Israeli gays.

This stupidity has no bounds

No I think that it is showing that they DON'T really accept every body else but they want everyone to accept them. Usual two faced liberal crap!

Duplicity and hypocrisy at its finest. Where's that horse they rode in on.....

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But as a Collective we are very much pro-Palestine

Who kill gays...

These dyke organizers are so fuckin' stoopid, it is impossible to convey how moronic they truly are.

I guess they have no idea that women in Palestine are second-class people, who are forbidden to participate in many things males are allowed. Or that "honor killings" on women from husbands and family go undeterred. Or that homosexuals are arrested and tortured; that homosexuality is unacceptable.

Colossally stupid.

massive complaints from all the gay Arabs apparently...

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According to the Windy City Times, three Dyke March participants were asked to leave by organizers because they were carrying Jewish Pride flags—a move that confused and angered some, but was lauded by others who thought the flags represented an anti-Palestinian point of view.

Kind of a rhetorical question, but which of them hangs gays from construction cranes?

It must be the blue color of the flag that offends them.

If it weren't for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

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Originally posted by oddball:
These dyke organizers are so fuckin' stoopid, it is impossible to convey how moronic they truly are.

That is a racist, homophobic comment, and I feel both triggered and threatened by it. PARA will be along shortly to ask you to leave so the rest of us can return to our safe space.

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I guess they have no idea that women in Palestine are second-class people, who are forbidden to participate in many things males are allowed. Or that "honor killings" on women from husbands and family go undeterred. Or that homosexuals are arrested and tortured; that homosexuality is unacceptable.

That's all just right wing propaganda that never happens. I can't believe you fell for such blatant lies perpetrated by people exploiting their white privilege. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[/ridiculous sarcasm off ]

Yes, these people are stupid on steroids and then some.

This is a sign of the times.. After the Orlando shooting last year.. I saw so many Gays posting they stand behind Islam..and anyone that isnt has Islamophobia .. I ask a friend of mine that posted it if she knew what Islam thought of Gay people .. She said all her friends have been told to Not be against Islam. I think the Left has them indoctrinated well..

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
That's all just right wing propaganda that never happens. I can't believe you fell for such blatant lies perpetrated by people exploiting their white privilege. You should be ashamed of yourself.

bigdeal beat me to it. I have actually had libtards say this to me.

Dykes and their leftist hypocrisy, this was the posting from the San Francisco Dyke March, lotsa specific about who can participate and why. Gotta know your place you know...

https://www.facebook.com/sfdyk...4306/?type=3&theater

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:

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But as a Collective we are very much pro-Palestine

Who kill gays...

You make a good point. I have wondered about liberals. They seem to be quite pro-Islam, also pro-LGBT. But sooner or later there will be a clash between the two, which side will the libs take then??

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But as a Collective we are very much pro-Palestine

So their members can't think for themselves. Jeez....

Sounds like. We are for your rights as long as you believe what we do.

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But as a Collective...

So their members can't think for themselves. Jeez....

Somewhat comical, isn't it. Me thinks these morons have spent too much time watching Star Trek in their parents basement.

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Originally posted by comet24:

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But as a Collective we are very much pro-Palestine

So their members can't think for themselves. Jeez....

Sounds like. We are for your rights as long as you believe what we do.

No it means "we are cowards who are afraid of muslims. We will be their friend so maybe they wont kill us until they have killed everyone else."

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
If it weren't for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

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