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That's just wrong. The Rainbow Flag represents LGBT Pride and does not include BIPOC.
I don't know why you don't like the progress flag, but it's not racist and it's not transphobic and it's not segregating. It highlights the diversity of human rights movements and points out that all human rights movements have the same goal and should work together.
There is no racism against whites, idiot. You aren't being denied jobs, getting houses, being shot by the police for no reason, or being harassed on the streets openly because you're white.
Stop bitching around and deal with the fact that you're not a king/queen/monarch anymore you absolute moron.
Sorry for the tone, but this shit pisses me off.
As a trans person who's been harassed and excluded at an LGBT event, I don't feel represented by a rainbow at all anymore. Go do your thing LGB, since I'm not welcome I'm doing mine. If you show me that I'm allowed to be part of you (by putting my thing back into yours) I'm coming back.
Humans (individually and otherwise) and humanity are constantly growing and developing and changing. There's never going to be an end to where we can go and what we can be, so why would there be an end to our attempts to include and support everyone?
Reminds me that lots of people act like there's some point at which they're done, like they've reached good and can just sit there without any further effort. This is wrong. There is no end. Good is a way of life, not a mark on some paper. We must carry on our efforts, always, never imagining we'll complete the task of "good."
My point being, why not try to evolve a flag? We evolve, the flag evolves. Maybe some time we need a new new one that includes everycritter. We'll always be changing so our expressions of ourselves and our communities will also necessarily change. This isn't a matter of solving an engineering problem once; it's a matter of endlessly varying human nature and expression.
Really hoping I managed to express some of that well 😅 Bit repetitive I guess but I struggle with concision 🤷
A minor point to bring up here, but being transgender is about gender, not sexuality, and I think you unintentionally just highlighted a very good reason why including the trans flag can help make that statement of inclusion and unity.