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Kyuubi4269 posted...

No preexisting relevant meaning in the case of Google, while Amazon is a neat name for a company selling all kinds of stuff you don't normally see from the outside world.

Both explanations are significantly more contrived than "Gay pride is pride in having endured and overcome the challenges associated with being openly gay." I think you might want to abandon that particular line of reasoning, lest you delve into ErikP levels of questionable argument strategies.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The treatment is the same, playthings for the group, but different people call for different actions.

So... the actions they take toward the victims change based on the victims' sexuality. Whee!

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's as though society was progressing in that direction and appropriate exposure and communication swayed people.

And society continues to progress in this direction and the issues are being appropriately exposed and communicated, swaying people. For people who genuinely don't understand Pride and are open to fixing that, the information is readily available even if it's not comprehensibly self-evident from the name (which, as we've established, is an unrealistic and unnecessary expectation). For those who want to be good people but don't understand how, the information's there. It's only people that refuse to understand the issue and have no interest in becoming better people that won't be able to figure it out, and even a comprehensively self-evident title wouldn't convince them because they wouldn't bother reading it.

There's no point trying to actively reach out to those people. Let them wallow in their ignorance. If they get tired of their hatred turning them into social pariahs, the option will continue to exist for them to learn why they're wrong, and there's no shortage of people in the world willing to help them with that (see: everyone in this topic clarifying what gay pride is for people that think straight pride is equivalent). If not, then they have nobody to blame for how unlikable they are but themselves.