Why do so many on /leftypol/ take imperialist pinkwashing propaganda at face value when 10 years before Obama it was the Christian fundamentalists and conservatives who were saying "kill all the ragheads, bomb the entire 3rd world" and the whole "gay liberal imperialism" thing is a fairly recent development in American society, rather than some kind of eternal truth going back to the Monroe Doctrine?
1. because they want to leftwash their anti-LGBT feelings
2. because they're stupid, superficial thinkers allergic to real material analysis.
3. because they project themselves on to foreign countries, which are sometimes anti-LGBT
4. because their aesthetic preferences derive from a point in time when being LGBT was less publicly accepted
this all combines to give you the ridiculous farce of them imagining that when Deloitte has a pride float, that means they're the ones "pushing" things rather than them being pushed to respond to bottom up pressure. (until it was counteracted by top-down pressure from the US government)