The picture on the left is a common sight in San Francisco (and, I'm sure, in an ever-increasing manner in other places as well). The "rainbow flag" used to mean something relatively innocuous, yet day by day it is changing its symbolic meaning, and becoming more and more a symbol of totalitarianism. More and more alike the flags on the right. (Yes, the left-right arrangement of these two pictures was intentional on my part.)
This is, once again, the so-called "horseshoe theory" in action: The more you go to the extreme left, the more the ideology starts resembling the extreme right. The more similar they become.
The symbol on the left is changing from a symbol of tolerance and positivity into a symbol of totalitarianism. It's changing from a symbol that says "we are not ashamed of who we are", into a jackboot on the throat of any dissenter. Into a symbol of oppression and totalitarianism. Into a symbol that says "either you submit to our political views, or there will be severe consequences". These consequences being harassment, shunning, threats (including threats of violence and death threats), discrimination, deplatforming, and psychological and physical violence.
The exact same people who put up those flags on the left are then acting like the people who put up those flags on the right. Political dissent is not tolerated, and everything, every single aspect of society, and every person, must be forced into the political ideology, and any dissenters must be destroyed.
It's quite ironic that they claim that they oppose fascism, when in fact their ideology and methods are extremely fascist.
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