I work at a restaurant. I had a customer last month talking about how he won’t drink Bud Light anymore, as he asked me for a Busch Light.

You mean the flag that excludes 1/4 of the membership of the union? Combining specific symbols to try and make groups feel included only ever ends up making another group feel excluded. No one is arguing against symbols for trans people, or intersex, or POC people, just that the standard Rainbow flag was intended to represent them all.

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.

And no star represents any specific state either. All are uniform and identical to ensure that none carry anymore weight than the others, and the layout of the stars completely changes everytime new ones get added.

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. over

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.

Bull-fucking-shit dude.

It’s essentially a libertarian “paradise” of zero regulations and everyone trying to get one over on everyone else. Pollution is out of control, the cities have a few extremely nice and wealthy areas while everything else is slums and chemical plants.

You should probably research what the KMT was up to in Taiwain from 1948-1992. They were a brutal police state

Ethnic cleansing is still genocide.

One child ended officially over a decade ago, and in practice even earlier. China has the same demographic issue as other developed countries in that most if the population is hitting retirement age and there aren’t enough workers to replace them. The US and Europe can mitigate this by allowing more immigration, but China is a fairly tacist society, nor is it an attractive destination for migrants. If I’m a Nigerian doctor looking to leave Lagos, I’m not going to China if I can emigrate to the US, UK, or Canada.

The actual solution is to figure out why work sucks so hard that people find loopholes like this to get around it. If i can work 4 months out of the year and take care of myself, why would you want to eork any more?