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Behind the Aegis

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Mon Sep 26, 2022, 05:24 AM Sep 2022

Rightwing school board candidate uses Nazi imagery to attack LGBTQ Pride flag


School board candidate Craig Ladyman said he wants people to "do their research into this flag" because it's related to "communist ideology."

“Like my new Pride flag?” Craig Ladyman, who is running for school board in Rockford, Michigan, posted on Donald Trump’s Twitter clone Truth Social. He posted an image of four Progress Pride flags arranged so that the sky blue, brown, and black stripes form a swastika.

The image was criticized by Jewish people and LGBTQ people.

“It cheapens the Holocaust,” Rabbi David Krishef of the Ahavas Israel congregation in Grand Rapids told Fox 17. “It cheapens the suffering that their families went through.”

“It’s a misuse of the imagery, it’s a misuse of the language.”

Rockford Public Schools Superintendent Steven Matthews also denounced Ladyman.

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HAHAHA! So funny to make fun of gay people (real or rumored)!

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Rightwing school board candidate uses Nazi imagery to attack LGBTQ Pride flag (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Sep 2022 OP
Don't get upset or angry about such crap, vlyons Sep 2022 #1

vlyons

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1. Don't get upset or angry about such crap,
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 05:40 AM
Sep 2022

because hurting LGBTQs is exactly what it's meant to do. Such people want to disturb our peace of mind. Just see it for what it is, evidence of a mean-spirited and hurtful person.

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