Popular YouTube personality Ms. Rachel, who is known for making educational videos for young children, has decided to wade into politically charged social matters by offering a full-throated endorsement of LGBT Pride Month.
In a video on TikTok, Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Accurso, dressed in a rainbow-colored outfit and wished, “Happy pride to all of our wonderful families and friends! This month and every month, I celebrate you.”
“I’m so glad you’re here,” she went on to say. “I’m so glad you’re exactly who you are. To those who are going to comment they can’t watch this show anymore because of this support, no worries and much love your way. God bless. I am not chasing fame or views. I’m standing strong in love.”
The video was quickly condemned by conservatives who decried Accurso for aligning herself with the partisan LGBT agenda, which encourages children to reject their biological sex and undergo life-changing and irreversible sex-change procedures at an early age.
The Libs of TikTok account, which is run by prominent conservative influencer Chaya Raichik, blasted Accurso for saying that “she doesn’t want your business if you don’t subscribe to the child [mutilation] cult.”
As disturbing as Accurso’s embrace of the LGBT movement is, her video highlights an inherent contradiction in a movement that proclaims to be about love but uses pride as its calling card.
While Accurso’s claim that she is “standing strong in love” is nonsensical as a matter of proper English, her remarks tying pride to love are just as incoherent. Far from being congruent, pride and love are diametrically opposed, at least by dictionary definitions rather than by political labels.
To be prideful is to place oneself above others, while to love someone is to put them above yourself. There can be no “happy pride” without putting others down, and there can be no love without humbling oneself. Love chooses the good of others, while pride does not.
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Despite what Accurso and so many others like her may say, wishing someone “happy pride” validates a principle of self-absorption that stands in direct contrast to the selfless love that chooses the good of another over one’s personal benefit.
Ms. Rachel may think she is “standing strong in love,” but what she is really doing is celebrating selfishness.