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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AnonCoward42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:28PM (#36299596)
It's meant to protest the current conception of pride month. On the outside the rainbow flag is replaced by a gradient flag of the national flag. Of course it started with Germany, but every nation is invited and many followed with their own gradient flag. On the inside it's a protest against wokeness and the associated contradictions of excluding most people, while everyone is supposed to celebrate it (or they are <smear word here>). In contrast everyone is invited to #Stolzmonat.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by strato-cumulus on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:07PM (#36300196)
I'd be all up for an initiative that attempts to burst the liberal bubble which seems to reject the possibility that people have other things to do than follow the latest inclusivity trends online, but come on. You know well what this is about. Had to scroll like 3 posts down to find out that this panders to reactionary clowns[0].

If this were a protest I would expect polemic discourse, yet the "official account" is just throwing shit around and screaming with excitement when someone "gets offended"[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/BjoernHoecke/status/1664190277282611200 [1] https://twitter.com/stolzmonat

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AnonCoward42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:13PM (#36300294)
Note: If the wrong people take part, abandon ship.

More seriously: I don't care. If Hoecke proclaims the water is healthy, I don't stop drinking water. #Stolzmonat is honestly a good thing especially because everyone can take part. If we now start the game of distancing (and that never stops) we can also just use the old hashtag.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by strato-cumulus on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:47PM (#36300839)
Read the twitter bio of that movement's page and tell me your definition of "everyone" here.

If you don't support Stolzmonat's agenda, then you are probably not welcome - pretty much the same as with Pride. What's the difference then?

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AnonCoward42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:22PM (#36301344)
Who is not welcome? Wokies? Yeah, if you want to hate on people because of their race, sex, sexual orientation or such, you're likely not welcome. Happy #Stolzmonat.
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