Pride： A Flag of Conquest ｜ 6⧸12⧸23
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Summary
We're celebrating Pride Month, and in honor of the holiday, we thought we'd take a look at what companies are doing to promote Pride Month in America, and why they're doing it the way they do it. And what does it have to do with the flag?
Transcript
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we're not really supposed to care very much about symbols.
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Sure, a symbol might stand for something we kind of care about.
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But the idea that the cloth of a flag or an engraving or a drawing somewhere really means something significant, something sacred.
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But when we look at the world around us today, it's getting harder and harder to pretend that this is the case.
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I think that's why people like Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Peugeot have created such large audiences.
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Because they're speaking to something that is still deeply true about the human experience.
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The symbolic nature of the world around us is real if it's into a narrative that gives us identity and purpose, meaning, orients us towards a vision of the good.
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And when we ignore those symbols, we don't understand important parts of the world.
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That's why even though this has been labeled low status, where people aren't supposed to understand these things, they're not supposed to notice these things, you still get people like Peterson with large audiences because they want to know more, because they recognize that they still care about these things.
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And the people around them care about these things.
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And ignoring them has a real detriment to your understanding of the world around you.
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But again, we're not supposed to care about symbols.
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We're not supposed to acknowledge any higher meaning that could be behind these symbols.
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It's not a specific place or a specific people.
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And by burning the American flag, you're not desecrating that flag.
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You're actually enjoying the freedoms behind that flag.
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But we see a very different approach when it comes to other symbols.
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People today like to paint pride flags onto sidewalks or onto roadways, crosswalks, where
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people walk across and cars drive across on a regular basis.
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But if someone drives across these crosswalks and leaves a tire mark, they can be investigated
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All of a sudden, it turns out that that symbol really means something.
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And desecrating it is a direct attack on them and their existence.
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It's funny how quickly those things can turn around.
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Now, of course, we're in the middle of Pride Month, American Ramadan.
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And at the beginning of this Pride Month, it looked like things might be a little different.
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A lot of corporations, after watching what happened to Bud Light and Target with boycotts,
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decided that maybe they should sit this one out or dial it back a little bit.
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And they didn't rainbow everything quite as much.
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They didn't do the big, huge statements of loyalty as much as usual.
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But it was noticeable that it was a little toned down, at least at the beginning.
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But it was interesting that there were two types of organizations that weren't toning
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First were those that targeted children, companies like Sesame Street, Peppa Pig, Play-Doh, Little
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These organizations all had Pride messaging out front.
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But another interesting organization that didn't avoid Pride Month messaging was the American
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Very interestingly, the Air Force put out a silhouette of a female airman saluting the
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Now, why would they be saluting the Pride flag, you might ask?
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That the United States military is honoring a flag that is not the flag of my country, or
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Now, a lot of people look at that kind of language from someone like me and say, well, that's
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No one would ever actually replace the American flag with something like the Pride flag.
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It's not really something that conveys values and orientation towards a particular understanding
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But then, last week, we saw that that wasn't true at all, because Joe Biden delivered a speech
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at the White House talking about how important, of course, Pride is to America.
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And the flag that was given the position of primacy over the White House, where the executive
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who leads the United States and its military resides, was not the American flag, or at least
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Instead, it's what's now called the progress flag, the pride flag.
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You'll notice in this picture that it sits over the presidential seal.
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That's conveying something true, whether the people who are looking at it would like to
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Now, plenty of conservatives jumped online and rightly pointed out that this violates
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The pride flag is not supposed to be placed in a position of primacy.
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It's not supposed to be equal to or above U.S. flags.
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And it's certainly not supposed to be dead center behind the president and above his seal.
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And, of course, that placement was entirely intentional.
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The people who put it there weren't confused about what they were doing.
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Now, during that speech, of course, Joe Biden talked about the importance of pride.
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He specifically talked about, again, how trans children are the soul of our country and need
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Just a few months ago, we were told, you know, six months ago, a year ago, that these procedures
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don't happen to children, that this stuff wasn't targeted at children, that they would
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never, ever take this propaganda and force it onto kids.
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Now, not only is it very obvious because we have all of the receipts from like libs of
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TikTok and Chris Ruffo and all these other sources, just anyone with a cell phone camera
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at this point can capture what's really going on, not only do we know that's happening, but
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now the president of the United States, the chief executive, routinely goes out and defends
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And not only defends this stuff, it says it is the goal of the United States to advance
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And so, of course, it was a lie from the very minute it was said that this was not about
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A nation of this, the celebration of this lifestyle, the celebration of this being done to children.
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The president of the United States, with this flag flying over his seal, replacing the American
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This is what the federal government is going to fight for.
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It's really hard to ignore what's being communicated with this symbol.
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Of course, you're going to have the MSNBCs and the CNNs and the New York Times talking about
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The right wing, once again, scaremongering about this stuff.
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It's comically obvious what's being advanced here.
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And this tactic of screaming, why are you complaining about this thing, while pushing it relentlessly
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Eventually, what's happening becomes too clear.
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That this is actively what America is being transformed into.
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This is the flag of the global American empire, which is wearing the historical American nation
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like a skin suit to advance its goals, its agenda.
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We're told this is now what America fights for when it's fighting overseas.
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We used to at least get to pretend it was democracy.
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This is what America sends troops to fight for.
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And obviously the fact that they're posting a military member saluting that flag means that
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This is a flag meant to be flown to show that there's something else that is higher than
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America, that is different and better than the American identity.
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As this flag was being flown, the statue of a Revolutionary War soldier was being pulled
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down because, you guessed it, an attachment to slavery.
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In every instance, we were told this would just stop with Confederate statues, right?
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Even Republicans started saying, oh, well, of course, we should take down the Confederate
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And so conservatives got on board with moving these statues to museums, or that's what we
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Most of them probably just got torn down and thrown away after being desecrated.
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But we were told that this was just about getting rid of the Confederacy, this connection to
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This backwards time in our history filled with people who fought against the United States
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That was the cartoonish representation of what was happening.
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But many people warned that it would not stop here, that this would continue unabated until
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every part of America had been replaced, every part of American identity.
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And again, we see this over and over again, right?
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This is what happened with the censorship of somebody like Alex Jones.
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Maybe you don't think Alex Jones should have had a platform.
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But the removal of Alex Jones meant that the next person would be easier and the next one
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and the next one until it became impossible to talk about things that were entirely true
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about things like a pandemic or about riots that were happening or elections that were
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happening in the United States because censorship was now fine and you removed anybody you
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This is the same tactic here when it came to America's history.
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They've already talked about they're getting rid of Abraham Lincoln.
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They're getting they're canceling all of these founding fathers, revolutionary war heroes who
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happen to have any distant connection to slavery.
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It didn't you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what was going to come next.
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And now we get the full realization of that project.
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The American flag is replaced by the new flag, the flag of progress, the flag that's actually
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supposed to represent what America is going to be about going forward.
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People need to understand that these symbols mean something to the left, too.
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They'll still say, oh, how could you really care about this?
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How could a piece of cloth really mean anything to you at all?
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You know, they're lying because the minute something happens to their symbol, they react
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And we have to understand that when the United States is replacing its flag with a different
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flag, you don't, again, have to really be a rocket scientist to understand what happens
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This is a separation of the government from the American nation.
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This is a separation of the state security apparatus.
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This is a removal of the American identity from the loyalty of all of those organizations.
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And that's a really scary place to be, because the only reason to separate those organizations
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from the people is because at some point you plan to use them against those people.
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You're making them loyal to something separate, not America, not the nation, not the people,
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An empire that flies a very different flag and has a very different set of values.
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And when your state security apparatus and your military is loyal to that and not to the
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historic American nation, nothing good follows.