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I think @ThisIsSin is correct downthread when he points out (perhaps I'm editorializing) that a lot of it has to do with cultivating legitimacy. Our national myths are the Civil Rights Movement (protecting the 'oppressed' from the 'privileged') and taking down Nazi Germany because they were killing minorities, whether that had anything to do with our motives at the time or not.
Ergo, to legitimize ongoing and novel interventionism, it helps to slot the matter into such a frame. People are familiar with the concept and trained from birth to see it as morally correct.
It's more a symptom of legitimacy than it is a cultivation thereof.
Accepting American framings on problems means you accept American religion (the foundations of which are "man bad", "white bad", and "straight bad"- 3 Goddesses from the Western perspective named "Safety", "Equality", and "Consent" respectively- and foreign cultures worship them to their detriment) means you accept the power of the priests of those American goddesses to dictate to you what your culture should be.
Pride parades are a symbol of power in the same way military parades are for other nations.
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