People are losing their minds over the bi-inclusive Progress Pride flag
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People have expressed outrage after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan posted a photo of a Progress Pride flag featuring bisexual flag stripes.

Queer people are getting their rights violated and removed in real time, and now we have ppl from all across the political spectrum arguing over a flag I have never seen before.

At this point, I’m convinced that the flag is an intentional psyop designed to sow division in the community over colours on a rectangle to distract from actual issues.

    • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgM
      30·
      9 months ago

      I’m leaving this comment up because I think it’s fine to point out that the rainbow stands for anyone. But I’m also leaving this reply here to let you know that you need to disengage with this thread. Insisting that a pride flag is racist is not exactly creating a welcoming environment here or being nice to people who feel included with specific flags which highlight their identity.

        • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
          20·
          9 months ago

          So a pride flag that is clearly textbook racist is good and arguing against it and the people that say its better because of the racism is not allowed here

          when you call them racist and imply they’re segregationist for having their preference, yes, that is not allowed. that’s needlessly aggressive and needlessly sectarian—and speaking personally, “having a preference for more stripes on a flag that represent marginalized communities is racist and like segregation” is just such an overstatement of the point (that i otherwise agree with, for the record—i am not a fan of the progress flag) being made that it verges into being unserious.

            • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
              21·
              9 months ago

              i don’t think “adding race-specific stripes to a pride flag” is a bad thing, is “treating people differently based on skin tone” except in the most cringeworthy, pedantic, I See No Color way possible, or is “racist”—and i think that if you believe these things you probably will not be allowed to partake in discussions like this on our instance after today

                • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
                  18·
                  9 months ago

                  That’s such a strawman reply. Nobody in this conversation thinks it is okay to be racist. You would not be banned for being anti racist, and implying that you would be is part of what you’re doing wrong here.

    • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
      231·
      9 months ago

      I feel more includet in the Progress Flag than the standard Rainbow. That’s just me, but why should that be less valid?

        • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
          121·
          9 months ago

          That’s just wrong. The Rainbow Flag represents LGBT Pride and does not include BIPOC.

          I don’t know why you don’t like the progress flag, but it’s not racist and it’s not transphobic and it’s not segregating. It highlights the diversity of human rights movements and points out that all human rights movements have the same goal and should work together.

            • iso@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              8·
              9 months ago

              There is no racism against whites, idiot. You aren’t being denied jobs, getting houses, being shot by the police for no reason, or being harassed on the streets openly because you’re white.

              Stop bitching around and deal with the fact that you’re not a king/queen/monarch anymore you absolute moron.

              Sorry for the tone, but this shit pisses me off.

            • BakerBagel@midwest.social
              6·
              9 months ago

              So this whole discourse is why I don’t like adding to the rainbow flag for specific groups. Once you add a distinction to represent a specific group, every group then wants to be included, creating a giant mess. It’s the classic “a camel is a horse designed by a committee” problem. That's why the EU decided to use this abstract and all inclusive flag over this nightmare that included every EU member state.

              I understand that every non-cishet group faces their own unique challenges, discrimination, abuse, and hatred, but the whole point of the rainbow flag is to show that we are all united together.

              • iso@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                41·
                9 months ago

                As a trans person who’s been harassed and excluded at an LGBT event, I don’t feel represented by a rainbow at all anymore. Go do your thing LGB, since I’m not welcome I’m doing mine. If you show me that I’m allowed to be part of you (by putting my thing back into yours) I’m coming back.

                • BakerBagel@midwest.social
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Yeah, terfs suck, but that’s not the fault of the flag. The rainbow is supposed to be the unifying symbol to unite the various other symbols. The entire purpose is that it doesn’t represent an entire any specific group, but the unity of the spectrum of human sexuality. I’m not arguing against the idea of the progress pride flag, I’m simply saying that trying to be inclusive by adding group specific symbols to what is supposed to be a unifying flag is inherently exclusionary, since groups that don’t get inclusive symbols included now feel excluded. In fact, i like the idea of adding a pile onto the standard Rainbow flag for people to express their personal identity.

                  For another example of this dilemma, look at the Union Jack for Terf Island/ The UK. It’s supposed to represent the unity of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, yet there are actually 4 countries that make up the UK, with Wales being excluded entirely from the flag. Ensuring every group feels included on an overarching symbol is a never ending battle that will never be enough.

                  • KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.socialEnglish
                    5·
                    9 months ago

                    never ending battle that will never be enough

                    Humans (individually and otherwise) and humanity are constantly growing and developing and changing. There’s never going to be an end to where we can go and what we can be, so why would there be an end to our attempts to include and support everyone?

                    Reminds me that lots of people act like there’s some point at which they’re done, like they’ve reached good and can just sit there without any further effort. This is wrong. There is no end. Good is a way of life, not a mark on some paper. We must carry on our efforts, always, never imagining we’ll complete the task of “good.”

                    My point being, why not try to evolve a flag? We evolve, the flag evolves. Maybe some time we need a new new one that includes everycritter. We’ll always be changing so our expressions of ourselves and our communities will also necessarily change. This isn’t a matter of solving an engineering problem once; it’s a matter of endlessly varying human nature and expression.

                    Really hoping I managed to express some of that well 😅 Bit repetitive I guess but I struggle with concision 🤷

                  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgM
                    4·
                    9 months ago

                    The entire purpose is that it doesn’t represent an entire any specific group, but the unity of the spectrum of human sexuality.

                    A minor point to bring up here, but being transgender is about gender, not sexuality, and I think you unintentionally just highlighted a very good reason why including the trans flag can help make that statement of inclusion and unity.