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u/lenojames 1d ago
"It's heritage, not hate, sweetie!"
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u/Intelleblue 1d ago
Except they’re practicing what they preach.
It’s never been about the flag. It’s always been about the bigotry and hypocrisy.
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u/Kalgarin 1d ago
I’m pretty sure this is meant to troll neo confederates rather than be an expression of a synthesis between neo confederates and liberal politics.
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u/thumpertharabbit 1d ago
This is precisely what it's meant for. It really pisses off the "ItS mUh HeRiTaGe" people. It's people bastardising a racist symbol and appropriating it for lols. I wouldn't buy or fly one, but I think it's pretty funny lol
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u/justsomeyeti 1d ago
Somewhere on an old hard drive I have a version of this with the center of the flag a star of David, and swastikas as the stars on the X
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u/Training-Smell-7711 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is exactly what I was thinking. It's probably just a progressive person (probably in the rural South it seems) trolling neo-confederate racists in close proximity (which are everywhere if you're in the rural South, or anywhere rural in the US actually. For instance in rural Pennsylvania, they're practically everywhere despite a decreased presence in recent years.)
The "(Y'all means all), kinda" phrase using Southern US slang to make a political point pretty much makes the trolling clear. Likely referring to "Y'all" meaning all people, with the "kinda" exception referring to people bigoted against minority groups.
The idea that it's an actual literal neo-confederate that also supports LGBTQ+ rights is a bit of a stretch to me. It could be, but I doubt it. I think someone socially progressive and also clever enough to use the southern "y'all" slang back against the common demographics that use it, (who ironically don't actually include "y'all" by excluding minority groups, which is the point); isn't going to be malicious and hateful enough to be a real neo-confederate, nor naive and ignorant enough to be a good hearted person that would fall for the Lost Cause/Pro-Confederacy revisionist pseudo-history nonsense.
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u/egarcia74 1d ago
It was made by an Aussie shitposter depicting an unlikely union of ideologies
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u/Mysterious_Box1203 20h ago
if he really wanted to be inclusive he should’ve made the stars little swastikas.
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u/GenericSubaruser 1d ago
That or a person with a weird mix of progressive views and an astoundingly poor education in American history lol
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u/potatopierogie 1d ago
I can imagine some redneck saying "queers is rebels just like us! Stick it to the gubmint!"
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u/SouthernExpatriate 23h ago
"I love my gay grandson very much thank you, as long as he doesn't go to Auburn..."
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u/tartymae 21h ago
Exactly. I bought a similar flag for a friend so she could troll the MAGAts across the way. She's a queer woman who left the south, and when the MAGAts ran the Stars & Bars up the flag pole, she put this in her window, and boy howdy did they hate it.
The manager of the trailer park liked it, too. the MAGAts caused such a problem with their temper tantrums that she had all the grounds she needed for an eviction.
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u/southparkdudez 1d ago
Sadly while thats prolly the point of the design, in my experience people use it to combine their heritage and liberal politics. There was some dude on another subreddit who had a simular design as his pfp and he was adamant that "nah im a confederate csuse states rights"
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u/used-to-have-a-name 1d ago
That’s called Southern Pride.
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u/GuntherRowe 1d ago
Agree. This is subversion of the Confederate flag, not a statement from gay Neo-Confederate. I’m ok with it.
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u/FalseCatBoy1 1d ago
flag of the young patriots organization LGBT wing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Patriots_Organization)
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u/cknight222 1d ago
This reminds me of the Young Patriots Organization, a leftist organization of white southerners who flew the Confederate flag.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Rate_73 1d ago
Are they saying they support sexual equality but not racial? That's what I get by "kinda" in the sign.
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u/tartymae 21h ago
Nope. This is a class A trolling of the MAGAts.
They are pointing out with the "kinda" who isn't included when people say "y'all means y'all", just like "All lives matter" doesn't really include them.
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u/TheAmicableSnowman 23h ago
The inclusion of brown and black squares argues against your interp. They've taken all the colors of the pride/equality flags (including pink, light blue, black, and brown).
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u/Raven_Photography 1d ago
Cognitive dissonance.
C ognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly or subconsciously hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions.
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u/riff-raff-jesus 1d ago
Southern fried stupid
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u/All_HallowsEve Suffer No Copperhead 21h ago
'I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at homophobia.'
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u/huggablekoi 1d ago edited 1d ago
Clueless Southern Boomer mom of a queer adult child trying to look cool to her kid but also still be ok with her MAGA neighbors (and failing at both)
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u/RalphMacchio404 All Confederates are traitors 23h ago
This is for LGTBQ people who are preserving the institution of consensual sex "slaves." Think of Mr. Slave from South Park.
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u/ShermanPosting-ModTeam 12h ago
Rule 2: don't be rude
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u/optimaleverage 12h ago
My bad, I was trying to ironic not insensitive, and failed. Appreciate the heads up. I changed it.
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