Sure, I can explain why this graphical clusterfuck of an LGBT flag is flying below a cause that wants to eliminate LGBT people. The original rainbow flag was a masterpiece of graphic design. Many different colors of the human experience, existing in harmony. As the culture of the LGBT movement shifted heavily with the advent of social media, it became less about political goals and more venerating individual identities. It wasn’t enough to have identities in the abstract of a rainbow, they needed to be literal. So we started adding to it. When you add this to the rise of progressivism that was happening simultaneously, a concept called the purity spiral kicked in. There’s no mechanism on the left to course correct bad ideas, because it risks social expulsion. So any plausibly discriminated-against group needed their own stripe. You might think the black stripe stands for black people. It doesn’t. It’s people who died of AIDS. Intersex people can’t be lumped in with trans people, then need to be the yellow patch with the circle. And on and on. Now the purity spiral has sent us so far, of course that we have to embrace Hamas too or get kicked out. That’s why these flags are being flown together. https://bird.makeup/@thewebbie/1825934423683944775
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