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Originally Posted by ThomasC

The flag doesn't look great, but not really the point.

The point is one community is showing another community support. What the hell is wrong with that?

It's not a hard concept to grab at all in my opinion.

OK so Ukraine doesn't recognise same sex marriage and non binary gender is not recognised , conversion therapy is not banned and adoption is illegal. All extremely wrong! However, the country is at war and many people have lost their lives so regardless it might be nice to show support and this is what this flag does.

They didn’t add the Syrian or Iraqi flags when we were bombing them back to the Stone Age. I don’t think people showing support is a “problem” but when that support feels like empty populism I think it’s perfectly fair to comment on that. The show of support is not for the benefit of Ukrainian people… it’s to demonstrate that that person “is the sort of person who shows support for stuff” - or virtue signalling, for those inclined to use the buzz terms.

I’m not just talking about it being added to the LGBT flag, I’m talking about everyone who sticks a blue and yellow flag on their Twitter profile picture “because everyone else is doing it”.