I can only imagine the future where some guy with special goggles that highlights people in the kill zone and automatically colours over their faces to make it easier to pull the trigger.
Dude lots of dumb things are parasitic. Sex work, childcare and babysitting, hell Uber eats is parasitic. The more complex a system becomes the more useless work is produced until the system either collapses or some of that work becomes devalued before society produces new utility so to speak.
That's different though, the point of gay pride is recognising that your value in society and your person ought to be respected, against a larger imposing force or hivemind so to speak, just like black pride, etc, and valuing your open expression of pride, closeted queers could just as easily argue that being in the closet is about valuing your own person on an internal level rather than how others may expect you to express yourself - ie, you may value yourself in a way different from how society does. Just like how some sex workers view themselves as tools, not sex toys but rather as healers and value themselves as such, once you dig deep down on all this, you'll realise that gay pride is as much a "reaction" of the person to society as being closeted would be, one is preferable to individualist cultures, the other is more conformist, either way you pick your poison.
People who unironically feel conflicted about being proud of overcoming or experiencing XYZ, e.g. taking a big dump or something as simple as eating an extra large McDonald's double junior whopper, would like to dispute that pride is more often than not understanding that being ashamed of something is giving away your agency, by automatically saying, that was bad, the end, whereas being prideful at least gives you opportunity to reflect on the value of the experience itself rather than to simply paint it as inherently good or bad.
Media manipulation bad. But how about hot cross buns as a food to celebrate how Jewish people murdered some guy who was just an innocent stoner (Jesus)?
Ask them if they're Mormon to get a reaction