{"id":1533798,"date":"2022-06-30T14:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533798"},"modified":"2022-06-30T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:49:55","slug":"the-many-colors-of-imperialism-where-this-flag-flies-intimidation-reigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-many-colors-of-imperialism-where-this-flag-flies-intimidation-reigns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Colors Of Imperialism: Where This Flag Flies, Intimidation Reigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-many-colors-of-imperialism-where-this-flag-flies-intimidation-reigns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533798&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>We\u2019re so accustomed to seeing flags, it\u2019s easy to forget they have deep significance.<\/p>\n<p>Who isn\u2019t able to bring to mind the indelible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/article\/joe-rosenthal-and-flag-raising-iwo-jima\">image<\/a>\u00a0of the U.S. Marines hoisting the American flag in victory at Iwo Jima. Or American astronauts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/flag-day-flying-high-the-stars-and-stripes-in-space\/\">planting it on the moon<\/a>? Or Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest against the Stars and Stripes and the country for which it stands? Flags are partly why those images are seared into our collective minds.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, flags are symbols that represent values and beliefs. More than that, they represent a claim on both the land and, in many ways, the mind. Flags represent jurisdiction. They say with quiet authority: this symbol, and its attendant beliefs and values, has preeminence here. Flags matter, in other words. We don\u2019t erect them for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why the photo (above), from London\u2019s kickoff of Pride month, has a menacing feeling. To me, it has an imperialist quality to it, like an occupation. All those beautiful rainbow colors can\u2019t change that.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not hyperbole to point out that the Pride flag is perhaps the only flag that truly knows no border. It\u2019s suddenly everywhere all at once\u2014in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and, indeed, the entire Western World. America, for the first time, is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USTreasury\/status\/1532437365775552512\">flying this flag above the US Treasury<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/06\/01\/major-corporations-donate-anti-lgbtq-legislators-pride\/\">Fortune 500 brands<\/a> are awash in pride colors, bathing their logos and packaging in the now familiar colors. Even the Boy Scouts now salute this ubiquitous symbol. The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2022\/06\/03\/us-marines-pride-rainbow-bullets-lgbtq\/\">Marines<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/247931\/serving_with_pride_lgbtq_soldiers_celebrate_diversity_speak_their_truth\">Army<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/Press-Office\/News-Stories\/Article\/2676572\/cnp-pride-month-honors-lgbtq-perseverance-in-the-navy-and-nation\/\">Navy<\/a> all celebrate pride, even though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/pride-flags-remain-banned-military-bases-pentagon-says-rcna1130\">Pentagon banned<\/a> flying flags at military bases in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Western world now celebrates Pride for one month straight. Yet by contrast\u2014in America\u2014Christmas, Veteran\u2019s Day, the Fourth of July and Memorial Day are allotted but one day.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Pride flag seems to be rising in direct correlation to our lowering pride in the American flag. I don\u2019t think this is unimportant. Societies need cohesion. If we take down the American flag because it\u2019s supposedly \u201cdivisive,\u201d some other flag\u2014with its own symbols and meanings\u2014will inevitably rise to take its place. One could argue that that replacement symbol is the Pride flag.<\/p>\n<p>Yet what exactly does this Pride flag stand for? In 2019, GLAAD\u2019s President and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oprahdaily.com\/life\/a27789288\/rainbow-pride-flag-meaning\/\">told<\/a> Oprahmag.com, the rainbow flag essentially stands for unity:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAt such a divisive time in our country, the rainbow \u2014 an iconic symbol of the LGBTQ community \u2014 aims to celebrate inclusivity, diversity and unity.\u201d She then added, \u201cBy teaching young people about the importance of every color of the rainbow, Our Rainbow aims to encourage awareness, kindness, and acceptance for all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But is the Pride flag really inclusive? Additionally, as the Pride flag becomes ever-more dominant, can we honestly say America is growing more united?<\/p>\n<p>After all, the rainbow flag doesn\u2019t mean what it once did back in that distant past of 2019. The original rainbow flag is now quite antiquated, replaced by a plethora of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pride_flag\">new Pride flags<\/a>. Where the rainbow symbol once represented gays and lesbians, it now represents a sweeping queer, hyper-politicized ideology that asserts radical, societal-changing ideas about sexuality and gender.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the number of queer identities seems to grow daily just as the movement\u2019s acronym is ever adding letters, with no end in sight. First, it was LGB, then LGBT, then LGBTQ, then LGBTQAI+ and now, today, there\u2019s LGBTQ2S+. I could explain what all these letters\u2014and now numbers\u2014mean, but it\u2019s impractical, complicated, and unusable. Just like those endless \u201cpreferred pronouns\u201d we\u2019re also told we should use.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the main purpose of the Pride flag today seems to be both to confuse and destroy our thousands-years-old understanding of the sex binary. Even homosexuality, which also affirms the binary reality of gender, has been relegated to the ash heap of yesterday\u2019s antiquated views on sexuality. Society, it seems, is being shattered into hundreds of ever smaller shards of queer identities whose one common enemy is the binary understanding of sex.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Pride Flag, which comes in new ever-more <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quartzy\/1303522\/the-new-rainbow-pride-flag-is-a-design-disaster-but-a-triumph-for-lgbtq-inclusiveness\/\">complicated iterations<\/a>, appears to be quite literally consuming itself. Each stripe represents yet another identity that competes for space on the finite flag. Increasingly, the symbol and its meaning feel like something akin to chaos and division, like something meant to estrange Americans from each other. Indeed, radical gender theory is doing exactly that, creating ideological fissures through families, communities, churches, corporations and government institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Yet if you challenge radical gender ideology, prepare to have your life turned upside down. I\u2019m not just talking about conservatives either. Ask tennis player, feminist, and lesbian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dawnstaceyennis\/2021\/09\/27\/martina-navratilova-wants-you-to-believe-shes-not-a-transphobe\/?sh=d2d40ab5b2c6\">Martina Navratilova<\/a>, author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy\">J.K. Rowling<\/a>, comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/arts\/chappelle-special-draws-critics-boosters-to-netflix-walkout\">Dave Chappelle<\/a> or liberal journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/what-is-a-woman-a-movie-that-should\">Matt Tiabbi<\/a>\u2014the list could go on. To question any queer theory assertion, no matter how ridiculous or how unscientific, is to assure one\u2019s destruction. As Dave Chapelle once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/08\/28\/dave-chappelle-one-rule-of-hollywood-is-to-never-upset-the-alphabet-people\/\">said<\/a>, Hollywood\u2019s one unwritten and unspoken rule is to never upset the \u201calphabet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re so accustomed to seeing flags, it\u2019s easy to forget they have deep significance. Who isn\u2019t able to bring to mind the indelible image\u00a0of the U.S. Marines hoisting the American flag in victory at Iwo Jima. Or American astronauts planting it on the moon? Or Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest against the Stars and Stripes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":858,"featured_media":1533801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}