• المنطقة عكف عفريت@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t want a flag that doesn’t include everyone for some weird queer theory or hetronormative analysis reason. 🙂😉

    And that’s why the rainbow is enough. It speaks beyond all these complications. Adding brown to it implies that brown people were not part of the rainbow, that more need to be added. All we really needed to do was indicate that brown people like any people fall under the same gay flag, regardless of the current existing social dynamic relating to race.

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      6 months ago

      If the rainbow had been enough, then we wouldn’t have ended up with racist queers in the community. That’s why the rest of us decided to send a clearer message. Are you interested in sending a clear message?

          • /: I don’t like racists but I can’t stop them from being gay or taking pride in being gay or flying this flag or any flag. Hopefully by meeting other people different than them, they will stop being racist and grow as people. I don’t think SWJing will help in any way, probably it makes it worse. I don’t like that vomit flag and I won’t fly it, but you can if you like 🤷‍♂️

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              6 months ago

              What a cowardly response. You dismiss all possibility of actually working to make things better, and choose hopes and wishes instead. Your argument is that trying to make things better is bad? How dishonourable.

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                6 months ago

                My argument is: don’t fix what’s not broken.

                This hyped obsession with skin color irks me as a “gay person of color”. This is a flag to celebrate all sexualities, it’s redundant to add the brown or black to it for purely SWJ-y reasons. I think your response is complicated and unpractical, it also kills me how it’s okay to make sweeping statements about white people like that’s not some form of racism rofl

                Like have that flag if you like, but as a “gay person of color”, I will not, and I will always point out how vomity it looks, how it lacks good design, and how it never helped.