The Right is now openly describing the Pride flag as "the flag of a hostile enemy" to America

[Nevilledog]

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@purplechrain
the right is now openly describe the Pride flag as “the flag of a hostile enemy” to the United States. just in case you’re tracking escalating rhetoric that positions LGBT people as traitors to society
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Expect to see more of this

[Deuxcents]

1. Hate is the enemy

And they always seem to find something to hate. They make me sick.

[BlueIdaho]

2. And carrying a Trump Flag?

Those traitors should be shot on sight.

[NCLefty]

18. Correction: Attacking America's Capitol with MANY Trump flags, beating police too...

[BlueIdaho]

25. Thank You...

The full record must be told.

[eShirl]

3. The Right is being disgusting.

[tanyev]

4. ORLY? Because I didn't see any Pride flags in the group that actually attacked our govt.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. I don't see why the Repubs just don't fly a red flag of their own.

Because I don't see anything American in what they're doing.

[Initech]

17. The MAGA / Q / Trump/ don't tread on me / 1776 flags...

Are the flags of a hostile enemy.

[Dirty Socialist]

5. Message for Right Wingers..............

……………Fuck you……………

[GoCubsGo]

6. If they're "hostile," it's because of the abuse you fuckbags have been dishing on them.

I never heard of the James Lindsay fuck, but if he wants to know who the real enemy is, he can see it in the mirror.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Lindsay is an infamous troll, and associated with Christopher Rufo

Four days after Counterweight’s website premiered, on January 29th, Lindsay uncritically promoted an antisemitic White Nationalist talking point about ‘woke Jews’:
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James had already promoted election conspiracy theories and other anti-globalist conspiracy theories before, sometimes under the paper-thin guise of “satire”. These threads caused a few prominent individuals within the anti-woke community, including Cathy Young and Claire Lehmann, to openly break with Lindsay. Pluckrose even posted a tweet appearing to distance herself from James’s conspiracism, before deleting it and blaming alcohol for the poor judgment in commenting publicly at all. Since I covered Lindsay’s public spiral on Embrace the Void 150, his tweets were only surprising in that they earnestly revealed the depths of his conspiracism.
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I was so surprised I hopped in the wayback machine to make sure I wasn’t just remembering wrong. Sure enough, New Discourses had been removed from the list of partners, sometime between January 25th and February 1st:
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This isn’t just about Counterweight. The number of orgs relying on New Discourses and the propaganda that Lindsay has developed with Chris Rufo and Michael O’Fallon is going up, not down, despite Lindsay’s explicit promotion of white genocide conspiracy theories. James Lindsay openly promotes potentially dangerous conspiracy theories and these groups promote his work like they simply disagree with some of his tactics – disagreements that they refuse to clarify. You can’t heavily cite someone like David Icke and say “Oh, but we disagree on some stuff too”, without making it very clear where you disagree, and why you’re continuing to collaborate with someone who promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories.

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2021/07/counterweight-and-the-continued-enabling-of-bad-faith-anti-woke-actors/

See this thread, about this Rufo tweet: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216812717

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[Nevilledog]

9. Yup

[AntiFascist]

10. I actually saw one on display near the entrance of a Walmart grocery store...

I guess they are turning on each other.

[electric_blue68]

12. Shame on you RWs! 🤬...

Ok, I forget they have no shame.
Le Sigh™

[Skittles]

13. ememy in the military?

there has always been a good percentage of gay folk in the military

the REAL military enemy would be FASCISTS

[gratuitous]

14. You should run them down, James Lindsay

And teach them a really good lesson. Go on, James. Surely a manly man like you is more than a match for these seven hostiles. A propos of nothing, do you have a will?

[vercetti2021]

15. Cool

I'm proud to fly both the pride and trans flag to piss you troglodytes off.

[Initech]

16. This is some straight up Nazi shit!

[NCLefty]

19. "Gay Panic: Part 1,034"

[Kid Berwyn]

20. No, that flag represents a group of our fellow Americans.

THIS flag represents hostile enemies of the Constitution, including James Lindsay.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

21. These people are a lethal combination of sick and stupid

The Pride flag is now an "enemy" flag? Really? Are they really this fucked in the head? Are they that damned desperate to commit genocide?

So, yeah... The Pride flag represents a hostile enemy. Unlike the following flags, which show you're a true patriotic American:

The Confederate flag
Drumpf/Pence flags
Blackened American flags
American flags with anything written on them
THE FUCKING SWASTIKA

No, incels. We are not the ones attacking America, or trying to destroy it. You are. You are the ones who pledge allegiance to Putin and/or Hitler. You are the ones scheming and plotting to kill Americans. You are the ones spreading hate and terror here. You are the ones screaming "1488!" or "The South shall rise again!"

If these incels hate America so much? Leave.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

22. The Ameri-nazis are focused on scapegoating and terrorizing LGBT+

in order to recruit and mobilize more foot soldiers from the ignorant, hate driven evangelical christo-fascist community, and anyone else susceptible to their fear mongering tactics.

They are following Hitler's playbook, trying to do to LGBT+ folks what the Nazis did to Jewish folks in 1930's early 1940's Germany.

Hate sells among the stupid.

[Aristus]

23. Wait, wait. Hold on, hold on.

The people doing the complaining about the Pride flag are the ones flying the Trump flag, the Southern slavery flag, and the Nazi swastika, right?

Just asking…

[gulliver]

24. Who is James Lindsay?

This guy may not have been elected by anybody to represent anybody in anything. He should, therefore, be completely ignored, and the right should police themselves by separating themselves from him. Social media makes it all too easy for snarky, angry, zealous troublemakers to have an outsized impact.