The Pride Flag is Terrible (And Here's Why)

The Pride flag is an aesthetic and philosophical mess. Rich Lowry explains its history and why it is destined to fail at its own goals.

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  • @cmyk8964
    @cmyk89642 ай бұрын

    Adding the trans colors to the LGBT flag implies that trans people aren’t LGBT, which is clearly absurd. The rainbow flag was enough and, frankly, perfect for its inclusive symbolism.

  • @stechuskaktus8318

    @stechuskaktus8318

    7 күн бұрын

    I hate this because the more you try to 'include' by explicitely mentioning it, the more you actually exclude by shining light on this and that group, but not on three dozen others. "Everyone" is tons more inclusive than "everyone and black and hispanic and gay and trans and introverted and overweight and anarexic and autistic and homeless and wealthy and catholic"

  • @ZephaniahNoah
    @ZephaniahNoah11 ай бұрын

    The flag is having an identity crisis.

  • @johnandrews3434
    @johnandrews34347 ай бұрын

    The rainbow colour gay flag is been marred. I am gay and it is despicable that these other groups have leached on our flag. Shameful. All the work we did to move forward with rights, etc. Do not leach onto our flag and drag us down with your issues. An added note the government has done everything to split groups out against each other in the country

  • @stubbyfoamz1

    @stubbyfoamz1

    2 ай бұрын

    Why do you need a flag in the first place? Do I get a flag? Say another guy wants a flag and he does not want your flag or my flag? Do we just make another flag to make him happy?

  • @davidmartin2631

    @davidmartin2631

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@stubbyfoamz1 make a straight flag!

  • @stubbyfoamz1

    @stubbyfoamz1

    Ай бұрын

    @@davidmartin2631 why do I need one?

  • @KGTKK

    @KGTKK

    27 күн бұрын

    ​​@@stubbyfoamz1 You are not understanding the bigger picture here. The LGBT community has fought for decades in order to secure their rights and to win their rightful place in society. It was to celebrate this victory that we have achieved and as a symbol of freedom that the pride flag was created. Almost all groups and minorities within the society have their own symbols to represent themselves, not just us (Eg:- The clenched fist for feminists) and I have never seen a person question them about anything related to it. So it is your pure hypocrisy that you're expressing...

  • @stubbyfoamz1

    @stubbyfoamz1

    26 күн бұрын

    @KGTKK you didn't achieve anything. You have infact done nothing but damage your image to the rest of society. There was no problem before this new generation of radical do nothing's showed up and forced your nonsense down our throats. It's been tolerated long enough to try and be nice but you are over stepping boundaries and we are waking up to what is really going on now. The pendulum is swinging and it's time for you all to grow up and put the flags away. Your just hurting yourselves.

  • @thesunflowchannel1995
    @thesunflowchannel19956 ай бұрын

    The problem with pride flag is that there are no rules, so therefore it can be changed. It’s followers can be manipulated. Someone could say oh pride is about sacrificing your favorite pet once a year. Pride is about burning down churches to free you from oppression. Anyone can join. The pride flag keeps changing. None of the colors are set in stone. A powerful influencer could put a goat head on it and everyone else would follow. The purest children can easily be manipulated into joining LGBT. That’s why it’s dangerous. A 6yr old kid who would’ve been the next president gets tricked into thinking he’s a girl. The teachers and his parents tell him oh you would look so pretty in a dress. You show signs of being a “she”. By the times he’s 13 he would realize he’s actually been a boy this whole time and his whole identity would be baseless. He’d be too afraid to speak up, too shameful having to keep dresses in his closet only to wear them in his sleep, and put on work clothes in the day.

  • @hwy27west
    @hwy27west8 ай бұрын

    It is a counterfeit of joy, the enemy has nothing original.

  • @christinabucheger6410
    @christinabucheger641011 ай бұрын

    They will never agree....

  • @dyenahh
    @dyenahh4 ай бұрын

    Mix all the colors together and you get fecal brown.

  • @moonlitequimby847
    @moonlitequimby84711 ай бұрын

    I Missed The Old One --> 🏳️‍🌈

  • @123duelist

    @123duelist

    11 ай бұрын

    I miss the time when there none and everything was sane.

  • @darlingtondeathbeam

    @darlingtondeathbeam

    2 ай бұрын

    @@123duelist Like back in the days of Jim Crow, right

  • @123duelist

    @123duelist

    2 ай бұрын

    @@darlingtondeathbeam lol if you remember Jim Crow. Lad I'm talking about the time when people weren't always trying to be victims.

  • @hifijohn
    @hifijohn7 ай бұрын

    The original pride flag was quite nice,this flag is a mess, pretty soon they will need two flags to hold all the different colors.

  • @StarTeddyy

    @StarTeddyy

    7 ай бұрын

    I know 🗣️

  • @moonlitequimby847

    @moonlitequimby847

    6 ай бұрын

    I prefer the original one --> 🏳️‍🌈

  • @Heretic-007
    @Heretic-00711 ай бұрын

    Prejudice Flag

  • @veronicamalsi266
    @veronicamalsi26611 ай бұрын

    Wokeness Flags💀💀💀

  • @erinwalker711
    @erinwalker7116 ай бұрын

    I believe they are going to add more colors to the Alphabet Agenda flag to the point where the original rainbow 🌈 colors are losing space!

  • @rorypotatochip1373
    @rorypotatochip137311 ай бұрын

    It says us against you

  • @antiqueandroid
    @antiqueandroid26 күн бұрын

    The black and brown stripes are not necessary at all.

  • @oserus999
    @oserus99910 ай бұрын

    The star and stripes... you mean the flag that has evolved over time to include more people than the original?

  • @sockylogic2014

    @sockylogic2014

    7 ай бұрын

    Now it just needs 3 more stars for Guam, US virgin islands, and Puerto Rico.

  • @Business_Ape

    @Business_Ape

    5 ай бұрын

    The big difference to me is that the newer pride flag did it kinda wrong, it looks a little ugly. That was a very solid point though.

  • @ilyachap
    @ilyachap11 ай бұрын

    Fully agree. Never liked the “new” flag, always been using the og one

  • @moonlitequimby847

    @moonlitequimby847

    11 ай бұрын

    🏳️‍🌈

  • @Balls1414

    @Balls1414

    11 ай бұрын

    Can’t believe their are actually “queer” people here.

  • @Amanda-Meme-Witch

    @Amanda-Meme-Witch

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Balls1414queer is a slur no one actually gay uses that term for themselves. It’s only “spicy straights” that are claiming “queer” as an identity.

  • @Balls1414

    @Balls1414

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Amanda-Meme-Witch What?

  • @octogonSmuggler

    @octogonSmuggler

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@Amanda-Meme-WitchThe term queer actually means weird. It's been bastardized by the West. If you go to Europe, they still use it to mean weird. The same way the term fag is supposed to mean kindling or cigarette. It was bastardized.

  • @GlennGoryl
    @GlennGoryl9 ай бұрын

    The only true "splinter group" is The Individual. There is only ONE minority: The Individual. #Individual

  • @KGTKK
    @KGTKK27 күн бұрын

    The LGBT flag should be to represent all of the community. What has happened is that other external groups have attached themselves to the community and have started spreading their own ideologies under the shade of it so that if a person is to speak against them, it would be considered as homophobic. This itself has placed the entire community under a bad light. The original rainbow flag is to symbolise all of the suffering that our community went through for decades fighting for our rights and to receive our rightful place in the society and as a symbol of peace. My belief is that the original rainbow flag is what truely represents our community and that no alteration should be done to it. 🏳️‍🌈

  • @kyokugenryudisciple9349

    @kyokugenryudisciple9349

    24 күн бұрын

    I may be straight. But I always viewed OG Flag as a sign of change and unity. I’m glad people like you are calling this out. We need voices like you. 👍🏾

  • @KGTKK

    @KGTKK

    24 күн бұрын

    @@kyokugenryudisciple9349 Thank you!❤️

  • @KRhetor
    @KRhetor11 ай бұрын

    Hey Rich, when are you going to respond to H. Holden Thorp?

  • @pvs6464
    @pvs646411 ай бұрын

    Glad to see a couple of Paul Johnson titles on your bookshelf, Rich.

  • @kerbygator
    @kerbygator11 ай бұрын

    Nobody cares

  • @Numbll
    @Numbll11 ай бұрын

    apparently they have one for normalizing sex work is work

  • @tmastersat
    @tmastersat5 ай бұрын

    It now has 6 stripes going 3 ways 666. The last one was 655....

  • @em-dy3hn
    @em-dy3hn9 ай бұрын

    In Canada, we have "PRIDE SEASON", which is essentially, Summer. It's horrifying. #trudeaumustgo

  • @MedicineDisgusting

    @MedicineDisgusting

    6 ай бұрын

    True, and no Remembrance day season? Pathetic shame celebrators.

  • @leanuchi674

    @leanuchi674

    3 ай бұрын

    I thought it was a hunting season.

  • @alexvineyard3045
    @alexvineyard3045Ай бұрын

    I honestly don’t know how someone can take one of the most beautiful things in nature and turn it into the ugliest design I’ve ever seen. It’s so loud and all the colors clash with each other

  • @notinmyUSMC
    @notinmyUSMC11 ай бұрын

    It should be named the Shame flag.

  • @victormalyar9200

    @victormalyar9200

    8 ай бұрын

    Ain't that a shame, you are to blame!

  • @Ailacutie

    @Ailacutie

    8 ай бұрын

    … I hate you all that hates the pride flag it hurts…

  • @StarTeddyy

    @StarTeddyy

    7 ай бұрын

    At the end of the day, there are only two genders 🗣️

  • @user-lf2ok8ue5p

    @user-lf2ok8ue5p

    5 ай бұрын

    It's a Gorgeous flag we should make the pride flag An American Flag it would be awesome to make an American flag with the gay pride flag in it as well that would look so cool

  • @user-lf2ok8ue5p

    @user-lf2ok8ue5p

    5 ай бұрын

    I think it's pretty I love the gay pride flag it's adorable

  • @KeithCindyPanama
    @KeithCindyPanama11 ай бұрын

    Heard that the stripes on the national flag in non inclusive so the rainbow will replace it ;(

  • @barbabietolafabi8261
    @barbabietolafabi82612 ай бұрын

    Is this some sort of… I don’t know… fascism things but with colours?

  • @Earle.
    @Earle.11 ай бұрын

    if they include people of colour wheres the strips for the asians

  • @Gitn2it

    @Gitn2it

    11 ай бұрын

    The emphasis is on sexual identity more so than race. I don't want to be represented by a flag that was conceived to show pride in having sex with someone of your same sex. Don't let this "who you love" business confuse you, you don't have to be in love with someone to have sex with them.

  • @Earle.

    @Earle.

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Gitn2it chill

  • @tchristianphoto

    @tchristianphoto

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Gitn2it Except that one's orientation, whatever it may be, is not based solely on sexual attraction, but on every kind of human attraction.

  • @markrobinson891
    @markrobinson8919 ай бұрын

    There are just not enough colors in existence to please everyone.

  • @thinkplease7114
    @thinkplease71149 ай бұрын

    The progress pride flag is the proletariat flag. The original pride flag is fine.

  • @carsondyle1793
    @carsondyle179311 ай бұрын

    I live in Portland and this crap gets jammed down your throat by every business. My tolerance is done.

  • @Balls1414

    @Balls1414

    11 ай бұрын

    Bro you live in PORTLAND you have more pressing issues than people wanting to express that they are gay 💀

  • @carsondyle1793

    @carsondyle1793

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Balls1414 that’s the point, politicians and business leaders ignore big issues. Instead they focus on Pride because it’s easy. Effective policies take work, coloring the town in rainbows is just masking the problems

  • @greenteagod

    @greenteagod

    8 ай бұрын

    I think you have bigger problems if something like that bothers you. How can something be done when it was never started?

  • @ishaangupta6173
    @ishaangupta61737 ай бұрын

    They should not made a rainbow there pride flag ,there are many people who love rainbow colours but because these people put those on there flag to indicate them they should use any special symbol to indicate them instead of rainbow

  • @LessTalkingMoreWalking
    @LessTalkingMoreWalking8 ай бұрын

    So were is the heterosexual flag.

  • @moonlitequimby847

    @moonlitequimby847

    6 ай бұрын

    Let's Make One

  • @tchristianphoto

    @tchristianphoto

    6 ай бұрын

    One actually exists: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_flag

  • @Yahsbsuq

    @Yahsbsuq

    2 ай бұрын

    Black and white flag lol

  • @marty7442
    @marty744211 ай бұрын

    It's more of a petal-file flag anyways, and there's the opposite of pride attached to it. It is an international embarrassment.

  • @jsv438

    @jsv438

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes. It's starting to remind me of the symbols that gained notoriety during the whole pizza-gate scandal. ~JSV

  • @greenteagod

    @greenteagod

    8 ай бұрын

    I think you're thinking of the american flag with the blue stripe on it.

  • @user-xy3jk9nq9n

    @user-xy3jk9nq9n

    8 ай бұрын

    @@greenteagod the dummycrat flag? lgbtq flag is the petal-file flag

  • @tchristianphoto

    @tchristianphoto

    6 ай бұрын

    Unlike the Republican Party, not one LGBT+ group endorses pedophilia.

  • @WernerRachtman
    @WernerRachtman11 ай бұрын

    F all the rainbow flags

  • @Peyton-gk9ts
    @Peyton-gk9tsАй бұрын

    Who are you to question our flag

  • @paulblart7378

    @paulblart7378

    7 күн бұрын

    Free speech. Ironic that you don't like it since your alphabet people love to abuse it

  • @edwardganio2699
    @edwardganio269911 ай бұрын

    The idea of a flag is to provide a symbol of a common cultural identity around which people can join each other in solidarity. The "pride flag" is the opposite: it is a symbol of defiance against a common cultural identity; a symbol of the rejection of tradition. It will constantly change and will never have permanence because at its root is an ideology of self-centeredness, contempt, and discontent.

  • @robert-brydson-1

    @robert-brydson-1

    7 ай бұрын

    sucked in

  • @Fin-gj2th
    @Fin-gj2th21 күн бұрын

    What a great marketing technique to sell more flags! Haha, genius! Buy! Buy! Buy! Consume! Consume! Consume!

  • @MarxistClownism
    @MarxistClownism28 күн бұрын

    Love to see your update to this new 2024 one.

  • @estariellesidneysdottir

    @estariellesidneysdottir

    8 күн бұрын

    That one was a joke... It's not real

  • @brianlindee4397
    @brianlindee4397Ай бұрын

    I stopped eating lucky charms because of these people

  • @_Solaris
    @_Solaris11 ай бұрын

    This I like 👍

  • @LordEmperorBoss
    @LordEmperorBoss11 ай бұрын

    The pride flag is the only flag that tells you what a certain people’s browser history looks like. It should be called the Rule 34 flag.

  • @Shamrock299

    @Shamrock299

    11 ай бұрын

    😂 I’ll use that

  • @metaljacket8128

    @metaljacket8128

    10 ай бұрын

    Got em

  • @jebby16
    @jebby1611 ай бұрын

    Divide and conquer.

  • @markc-ru4qz
    @markc-ru4qz11 ай бұрын

    Amen!

  • @jsv438
    @jsv43811 ай бұрын

    "All the visual appeal of a television test pattern." ROFL!!! Classic! ~JSV

  • @hifijohn

    @hifijohn

    7 ай бұрын

    Actually, the color test pattern has a very specific technical purpose every color even the order they are in is important in calibrating tv equipment.

  • @jsv438

    @jsv438

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@hifijohn Well yes, we know this. I worked in the music biz' my whole life, built studios, and had friends in audio for video post production and in broadcasting studios. I clearly understand the usage in calibration. The "joke" (I was quoting btw, not MY joke) was about its "visual appeal" or lack thereof. Did you "get" the "joke"? Are you devoid of a sense of humor? Did the joke or the comment mention that the "test pattern" was useless or had no purpose? Are you one of those extremely rare individuals that actually finds "visual appeal" in the broadcasting test pattern? Why is it we can't even f**kn joke with each other any more? wtf...? That's it... I'm going to that other planet that still has the humor on it... where was that place again..? Oh wait, I have this great bit about turtle wax.. nah, never mind. This place is loaded with hecklers tonight. Tough crowd, Tough crowd! Hey! I don't go to where YOU work and knock the license plate outta' YOUR hands! 🙄 Speaking of which... Yeah y'now I really don't think Martha Stewart should've gone to JAIL! That really was not the right thing to do. I noticed something though.. for the time she was in there, I really was getting to like that floral trim around the license plates! And I had lovely doily for my shiv! ...what? ...too soon? 🤣🤣🤣 ~JSV

  • @hifijohn

    @hifijohn

    7 ай бұрын

    @@jsv438Goodgod who shoved a broom handle up your rear end?? All I did was make a comment and your giving me a 10 page unhinged tirade and personally I dont give a monkeys ass about your illustrative careen in the A/V business, maybe you should be writing for the national mental health review.

  • @kytekuttertv
    @kytekuttertv11 ай бұрын

    Preach it!!!

  • @sockylogic2014
    @sockylogic20147 ай бұрын

    Are you also opposed to state flags? many of those are horrendously ugly and an affront to the stars and stripes. Why would a state need its own divisive flag when we have one flag for all of us?

  • @Dave-if5qj
    @Dave-if5qj8 ай бұрын

    Folks who know the p fesinger Of the pride flag have stated He would be disgusted By whats been done to It

  • @jb-vb8un
    @jb-vb8un10 ай бұрын

    see article from MANHATTEN INSTITUTE re: " Oregon's castration machine "

  • @FrJohnBrownSJ
    @FrJohnBrownSJ11 ай бұрын

    That American flag doesn't represent all US citizens. What about Puerto Rico? Guam? the U.S. Virgin Islands? American Samoa should count...and the Northern Mariana Islands? No one ever remembers them! Just kidding. I love our flag. But more stars would look awesome.

  • @Gitn2it

    @Gitn2it

    11 ай бұрын

    They are not states. If they do become states, they will have their star added to the flag.

  • @FrJohnBrownSJ

    @FrJohnBrownSJ

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Gitn2it but... but... you're erasing American citizens! (You know I'm kidding)

  • @SlavicUnionGaming

    @SlavicUnionGaming

    29 күн бұрын

    No in hell's way will anybody want Puerto Rico to become a USA state, they will vote Democrat which is bad.

  • @blaiseaimee7098
    @blaiseaimee70988 ай бұрын

    When I was living in San Francisco in the 90's, the Rainbow Flag was only flown in the Castro (the "gay" neighborhood). Fast forward 30 years and it is being hung at the White House. So sad.

  • @Aqua_bubbles
    @Aqua_bubbles7 ай бұрын

    i dont understand why you call pride a splinter group when the usa WAS A SPLINTER GROUP

  • @johnray5568
    @johnray556811 ай бұрын

    How's about a Christian month?

  • @ilyachap

    @ilyachap

    11 ай бұрын

    Every other month is that.

  • @octogonSmuggler

    @octogonSmuggler

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@ilyachapThat's the same as saying every other month is white people month, when it isn't. That's wrong. In fact, the amount of people who identify as Christian has gone down since the 80s.

  • @knrdvmmlbkkn

    @knrdvmmlbkkn

    8 ай бұрын

    "How's about a Christian month?" Yes, please. One a month. Not one a year.

  • @markr1550
    @markr155011 ай бұрын

    Crayola currently makes 120 colors

  • @octogonSmuggler

    @octogonSmuggler

    8 ай бұрын

    They also renamed my favorite one to 'midnight blue' because some idiot teacher didn't know how to tell her students what a Prussia was. Instead of using the color as a teaching moment, she decided that it wasn't important enough to remember history and petitioned for the color to be changed.

  • @markr1550

    @markr1550

    8 ай бұрын

    @@octogonSmuggler I remember Prussian Blue, just barely, but you're way to young.

  • @octogonSmuggler

    @octogonSmuggler

    8 ай бұрын

    @@markr1550 It's my favorite color. 😊

  • @markr1550

    @markr1550

    8 ай бұрын

    @@octogonSmuggler It is a good one. Look at Blick art supplies, you can find some there.

  • @joejackson4627
    @joejackson462714 күн бұрын

    The first one was ugly. It's only got worse.

  • @P455w0rds
    @P455w0rds4 ай бұрын

    When genderfluid becoms gender solid?😮 Chemistry is facinating😅

  • @paulblart7378

    @paulblart7378

    7 күн бұрын

    I'm still waiting for gendergas to drop

  • @elizabethhunter107
    @elizabethhunter1079 ай бұрын

    Hey @richlowry why do you look like a guy that ALMOST punched his wife but went up to the attic to play with trains instead?

  • @tomeye3111
    @tomeye31113 ай бұрын

    it shouldnt even be a flag

  • @christinabucheger6410
    @christinabucheger641011 ай бұрын

    Proud to to be the 69th to like this video.

  • @iron_pickaxe
    @iron_pickaxe6 ай бұрын

    we should get rid of state flags too most of them are ugly and we already have the stars and stripes for everyone

  • @jcgoldstrom
    @jcgoldstrom7 ай бұрын

    Never let someone NOT a member of the LGBT how to define our symbols…

  • @StarTeddyy

    @StarTeddyy

    7 ай бұрын

    Can’t even have opinions in 2023 anymore 🤦

  • @darlingtondeathbeam

    @darlingtondeathbeam

    2 ай бұрын

    So go back to the original. Whoever designs the new flags is always, for all intents and purposes, bi-curious sexually at best but still straight romantically

  • @paulblart7378

    @paulblart7378

    7 күн бұрын

    Freedom of speech buddy! Your people love to abuse it, so we'll do it too

  • @robert-brydson-1
    @robert-brydson-17 ай бұрын

    LOL at "destined to fail,,, been going strong since 1978 . ORIGINAL Color meanings = red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.

  • @tchristianphoto
    @tchristianphoto6 ай бұрын

    The Philadelphia and Pride Progress flags were meant not to indicate any kind of deficiency or non-inclusion by the regular Rainbow Flag, but to give special emphasis to first people of color, and then to transgender and intersex people. It's not a contest, and the regular Rainbow Flag remains perfectly fine. As for the number of stripes being reduce from eight down to six, that was a change done by original Rainbow Flag designer Gilbert Baker back in the 1970s. He eliminated a couple of fabric colors that were not as easy to find. It didn't affect the intended meaning of the flag at all. If the U.S. flag truly represented everyone, then anti-LGBT+ discrimination would not continue to exist, and the Republican Party would not still be refusing to pass the Equality Act.

  • @ginb1289
    @ginb12898 ай бұрын

    This guy doesn't know what he is talking about.

  • @user-iv7fk3zo7t
    @user-iv7fk3zo7t6 ай бұрын

    the demon now is coming to to town

  • @user-iv7fk3zo7t
    @user-iv7fk3zo7t6 ай бұрын

    youre the one who unlesh the the demon