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[–]reluctant_commenter 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting video but definitely TQ-leaning. A few notes:

Quote from Daniel Quasar, the creator of the "LGBTQ+" flag with an arrow on the left side:

"...arrows often point somewhere, and they mean movement"

Yeah, they're moving to steamroll over the rest of the rainbow. Just give it a couple years and there'll only be a couple of little triangles of rainbow in the right corners, lol.

The youtuber suggests (at 8:30) Daniel Quasar is a "controversial figure in the LGBTQ+ community" because:

  1. A lot of people don't like his flag design. This youtuber suggests that "some of this is undoubtedly due to some gay white men resenting trans or minority issues from intruding onto 'their' flag." Right, only those evil gay men, and only white people, would take issue with pressuring one demographic to be happy with their main symbol being taken over by multiple other demographics. It's not like there was a vote among gay people on this. And ironically, the gay men this guy is referring to are a much smaller minority than transgender-identified people.

  2. Adding extra colors defeats the purpose of the original flag designed by Baker

  3. Daniel Quasar's flag is copyrighted and "xe" has not released it for free, and is instead selling it to corporations. You can see "xe" or whatever posting about it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielquasar?lang=en

So, not only are we having this stupid flag shoved down our throats, which none of us asked for or agreed to, a "nonbinary" trans rights activist is making money off it while claiming to care all about the LGBTQ+ community.

I'm not sure if I'm more frustrated with the LGB erasure or amused at this TRA fleecing "xir" own community.

[–]julesburm1891 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

arrows often point somewhere and they mean movement

How Indo-European-centric of xe. Doesn’t xe know that Afro-Asiatic languages are read right to left?!

On the real, some dude is making a killing selling an ugly flag to corporations without most of our consent and has the gall to pretend we’re assholes for not liking it. Sounds about right for 2021.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)