[Social Media] Twitter uproar over "symbolic" LGBT photo

[e-maxx]

^i also agree with those above 3 posts

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[IkeTheGeneric]

and to add to that its just hard to tell considering how political lgbt has become

Yeah, unfortunately. I can definitely understand the controversy here, and honestly think the image just wasn't that great of an idea to begin with.

[Karl Marx]

It's not a coincidence that the same people who have to persuade other people into believing they don't hate gay people are the same people who are unreasonably angry at this.

[Køtt]

Yeah, unfortunately. I can definitely understand the controversy here, and honestly think the image just wasn't that great of an idea to begin with.

i personally think they would choose a better image to strive it off of

[IkeTheGeneric]

The idea seems that the original image is a symbolic icon of struggle, more so struggle in a war time, but struggle nonetheless. I can see where they were coming from, with the raising of the LGBT flag after generations of social progress during a time of struggle. It's just the message won't resonate well with a lot of people, who are reasonably upset that the image was, in their eyes, made in poor taste.

[Headcrab Zombie]

The struggles of the LGBT community, especially in the US, definitely pale in comparison to those of soldiers.

However, reducing it down to "today someone called me a mean word :(" is just plain dishonest.



Both sides of this argument are stupid. It's just a photo, stop getting so wound up over a photo.

[SeventhSandwich]

This is a dumb argument and both sides are wrong for their own reasons. Being gay and being a soldier are two struggles that are incomparable because one of them is being a soldier and one of them is being gay. Trying to argue over which one has the 'worse' experience is basically the textbook definition of a pissing contest.

That being said, the image here isn't positing that soldiers and gays struggle on equal levels. It's a visual metaphor for the fight for equal rights - one that isn't literal and shouldn't be taken as such. When you tell your friend to 'soldier on' while studying for a test, you're not making some broad statement that preparing for an algebra exam is worse than active duty; you're just drawing a thematic similarity between the two. If this image really bothers you, consider chilling the forget out.

[gr8dayseth]

boy people will complain about anything won't they

[Red Spy]

boy people will complain about anything won't they

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

^i also agree with those above 3 posts

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[NotBomberguy]

we gotta make the queers disappear

[Red Spy]

like the rooster get the shock

[Master Matthew²]

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[Ipquarx]

I think it's a very bad image that they chose... I can very much understand people thinking this was trying to be compared to the original, but I feel like it's much more likely that it was either comparing it to the original sort of meaning like Ike said,

or a reference to the LGBT struggle in certain other areas like Germany, where they went from full-on genocides in the 1940's (which a lot of people didn't know included gay and biloveual people) to now-legalised same-love marriage just recently (hence the metaphor of pushing up the flag). I seriously doubt it's trying to compare LGBT struggles in the US to war.

[Nonnel]

that's from iwo jima (japan), not germany, tho

the image is about success over struggle, not war.