Pride crosswalks, non-government flags banned in Alberta town after community vote

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[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

tbf, nobody would cared a whole lot if it wasn't for the toxic political climate that has been created.

Before it all went hostile and political, I wouldn't have cared, but today, I would vote to remove it too.

[–]HiddenFox 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree with you. I couldn't give two shits about someone's personal life. My issue is when we start legislating how people can speak, When you start rewriting social norms to accommodate a small percentage of the population, when you teach gender identity at an age that a student can't understand.

Unfortunately issues like this are now associated with the pride flag. The flag doesn't stand for what it used to. It's become a symbol of all the negative of the movement.

[–]xoenix[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not to mention how they've distorted the pride flag. The one pictured in the article is the "progress flag". The original pride flag was actually supposed to include everyone (hence the rainbow.) Now each colour identifies a specific group, none of which are regular heterosexuals.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think that stance is more common than we are led to believe. (censorship on sites like reddit removing every such instance)

If I were to post my comment on reddit, it would be swiftly removed for "hate speech".

I think the groups acting in bad-faith are playing the angle of turning negative reception to their toxic behavior into a martyr situation. The best strategy seems to be to passively ignore them whenever it pops up.

One thing that really pissed off reddit was when I commented in a political thread about banning lewd homosexual books in children's libraries, I said nothing should be banned, even though it's grossly inappropriate. The reason is that they're using it as a shock factor to get people to advocate for banning so they can use it in their persecution strategy. They tried banning books like Huckleberry Finn, and To kill a Mockingbird, and that only made them more popular. I say ban nothing, leave it all out, and eventually the novelty will wear off, and the toxic groups won't get the publicity they crave.

Yeah, that got me banned within a minute of commenting that. Not even spamming meatspin or tubgirl got banned that quickly. I can tell that response really scared them.