thepigeondrivesthebus: vshamru:thepigeondrivesthebus:dailyaspecpositive:Demi and grey aspecs c
thepigeondrivesthebus: vshamru: thepigeondrivesthebus: dailyaspecpositive: Demi and grey aspecs can have complex orientations and explaining details is often exhausting and highly personal! I cannot even fathom how disgusting this is. Stop using the black fucking triangle. There is nothing more disrespectful to Holocaust victims. How dare you. How. Dare. You. Hey quick question. It’s in the wrong orientation, and the wrong color. Have you been requested by Holocaust victims to personally brigade against the demi flag? Where does your issue with it come from? I’m genuinely asking, because unless you’re banning every triangle ever, I don’t see why this one in particular is worth this amount of self-riteous woker-than-thou objection. Hello. I’m Romani, Polish, and Yukat. And I had entire branches of my family wiped out in the Holocaust. Aunts. Uncles. Cousins. Grandparents. All of them slaughtered wearing a black triangle. Because that is what the Nazis branded us with. Millions of my people were murdered during the Holocaust. We don’t even know the number because everyone has always hated us and just like the ones who wore the pink, they were glad to see us go. To this day the black triangle is used to identify Romani. For example it’s used in France, the fourth most unsafe place for Romani people. In 2020. So no. This is not me being woker-than-thou. Its not me banning every triangle ever. It’s one out of millions of Holocaust victims who have never and will never get justice calling out the ace community for creating a flag that is literally used by fucking Nazis. And if us lgbt+ Romani calling this disgusting fucking behavior out upsets anyone than congrats. You are a Nazi Sympathizer. @thepigeondrivesthebus Thank you for bringing this up. From here on, we will be using redesigned demi flags that do not include black triangles. It has been recognised in the aspec community for a while that the flags are problematic and many people have come forward to say they are uncomfortable with them. We were previously a semi-inactive blog waiting on the wider community to come to a consensus about a replacement flag but you have shown us that wasn’t the right approach to take, and so all future demi-related posts on this blog will feature one of these two replacements: [X] [X]I am sorry for any harm that has been caused by our use of these flags. It was never our intent to evoke nazi imagery in using these flags, but we are aware the impact of our actions is more important than the intent. Going forward, we will use and advocate for the use of the alternative flags in the hope that our reach on this blog may have enough impact to change flag preferences in the wider community.Note to followers:Read this link to learn the basics of the black triangle symbol’s origins: [X]. Though there has been talk in the aspec community of replacing these flags, I’ve seen a lot of misinformation about the black triangle given in explanations of why the change needs to be made. To clarify, for those who couldn’t read the link: the black triangle is a symbol from the Holocaust that was used to target Romani people primarily. School history classes often fail to mention that the Holocaust was a genocide of Romani people as well as Jewish people. Please read up on this if you were unaware: [X]- Mod Kricketot -- source link
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