it's a "german pride flag" used by the AfD as a way to mock LGBT people. not sure why they added prussia but it's probably just more german nationalism. here's an AfD poster doing the same thing:
to think somebody getting in a horrible car wreck that leaves their body mangled beyond recognition and the last thing they see is a soyjack pepe vexiology billboard
Even better, the Pepe is even listed on a long document of nazi symbols and phrases as an example of far right memes as published by the German Verfassungsschutz. They know what they're doing.
It's a bit of both in Germany's case. because the open display of most Nazi symbols like the Swastika, SS bolts etc. is banned in Germany, German Neo-Nazis (including those associated with the AFD) has co-opted the old symbols used during the Kaisserreich, like the Prussian eagle and Empire's Black-white-red flag etc. and use them as a sort of loop-hole to get around the Anti-Nazi laws.
I'm quite aware, I was just saying that even if that wasn't the case, Prussia belongs in the dustbin of history by its own (de)merits, and its symbols should not be celebrated
Not completly disagreeing, but frankly, Prussia itself gets a bit more bad rep then it propably deserves. During the time of the enlightenment it was, comperativly, progressive, which was arguably its hayday.
I would argue that it really is the way people saw and see Prussia that does it a lot of disservice. Even in the Empire, Prussia was already somewhat of a meme. Prussia is a prime example of projection of negative and positive stereotypes.
Peoples view of Prussia was really quite influenced by the fact that it came to represent german militarism and, even after the time where it was a singular politic entity, and that Prussia was seen in a lot harsher light than, for example, Britain or France.
The example a professor of mine gave for that stuck. He said that, if something like the Irish Potatoe Famine would have happened not in british-Ireland, but in prussian Poland, there would propably be no debate about calling it a Genocide.
But yeah, in essence, you are right. The point is not that we should gladly slap the Prussian eagly on everything, because all the other european powers did bad shit too, and there is no problem with unian-jacks, danish lions or the french or spanish flag on anything. Maybe the "prussian" approach is the right one when it comes to dealing with this.
The argument could be made that you shouldn’t use the Coat of arms of Denmark (Danmarks rigsvåben) because of what they did to the Inuits on Greenland, the Faroese people, the Norwegians and all the other people in their former colonies.
Comparing Greenland to the Faroese Islands, Norway or Iceland is wild. Greenland is more comparable to the Danish West Indies and such.
Also, not wanting to celebrate the symbols of an extremely militaristic state is more than understandable.
It's not confirmed that he was gay, but the situation with von Klatte and some documents heavily suggest it. So much that most historians would agree that he was most likely gay.
He also had a relationship with a page that his sister Wilhelmine said was “too personal for a man of his stature”. When his father found out, said page was transferred.
And she's a German nationalist who...lives in Switzerland. She reacts quite peculiar if asked about it and specifically when it comes to the tax aspect of her living situation.
In fairness Ernst Röhm (leader of the nazi Sturm Abteilung) was also homosexual. But he claimed that his form of homosexuality was the "good kind", a warrior's homosexuality among brothers in arms, and not a decadent type of homosexuality among degenerates (which was the "bad kind").
The main reason he got killed because he was part of the left wing that wanted a violent social revolution and was in control of the largest militia by numbers at the time. But him belonging to a social group the right wing of the Nazi party (which was in control after the purge that killed him) wanted to exterminate didn‘t exactly help his case.
Yeah, it was more because he was a rival for power that Hitler needed to get rid of to be the unquestioned leader of the nazi party, than his homosexuality, but it certainly didn't help.
It's a more "respectful" way to say "I might like women but I'm not a f*ggot", you saw similar things with Ernst Rohm and other Nazi gays
Basically for fascists, "queer" has a specific connotation as "effeminate, progressive, degenerate, weak, artistic, and mentally ill", or specifically for lesbians "masculanized, dominant, progressive, and a man hating feminist"
What she's trying to do is separate herself from that image by claiming that while she's into women, she is not part of the queer community her party attacks
I am as leftist as they come, I have been to Germany several times but not since 2013. I, with 100% honesty want you to know, i had no idea...
I imagined it could have been a pc gaming thing or a Soccer team insignia. But neither felt right.
The fact that it was over a anti-fascist sticker that i do recognize kept me intrigued but also didnt think much of it because lots of streets in Germany are covered with them.
I mean guessing the general vibe doesent mean you instantly understand what exactly something stands for, they probably just wanted to know specifics about It
Definitly a neo-nationalist flag and the owner was probably a fascist-sympathizer when you look at what was under this sticker. Somewhat weird to put the prussian eagle and the german tricolor together as historically those were symbolic for opposed positions but together they are defiinitly supposed to show pride in German history (even if you don't know it well yourself)
It is a new flag from the neonazis in Germany. New as in literally just 2 years old. At the beginning of 2023 a far-right German YouTuber and his friends tried to recapture the pride month and make it a nationalist thing, calling it "Stolzmonat" and this gradient German flag became the symbol of it. Goal was that instead of pride content, the public discourse would be flooded with an organized barage of homophobic and transphobic postings. Some of the more edgy and radical ones added the black and white triangle with the Prussian eagle you can see here. It was pushed extremely by Twitter's algorithm and especially the AfD instantly jumped onto it, high-profile politicians posting this flag and including it in their profile picture. In the end, it had just a limited success and it mostly just stayed in this far-right echo chamber.
You'll probably find older versions of it which predate 2023 because the concept isn't that creative, but it only became wide-spread after this. It is fascinating though, that the person who made the sticker didn't even attempt to cut it out cleanly.
I think this exact design is from 2023, because I found a Reddi post with this exact design from the first of June 2023, that also includes versions for GB and France in the Post and Versions for Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Portugal and others in the Comments, so I think, that the user from this Post created them, because the ones in the comments seem to be made after someone asks for them, but I can't guarantee it is the case.
The beautiful part is that someone not connected to the neonazi pricks was able to trademark the term and sold pro queer stuff under it (and might've been able to c&d the neonazis, but that part's a bit foggy)
I was so dissapointed to hear this was a neo-nazi flag, i saw it and thought haha funny german version of the pride flag before hearing it was associated with nazi-ism
I'm no expert but given that it's got an eagle and is placed over an anti-fascist action sticker, I'm guessing it's probably got something to do with liking fascism.
its an anti-lgbtq neo royalist flag. „for the emperor!!!!“ (the emperor is a 49 yo neckbeard called günter, who has his own handmade passport, and collects nazi merch)
Oh man, we've come a long way. These guys were "If you're gay, vote AfD" and now they're going all out.
It's understandable that it's plastered on an Antifa sticker, since Antifa is heavily left leaning and very anti nazi/anti fascist (the name is Antifaschistische Aktion, I mean... duh) but now they had the Prussian Flag on top of German flag in the very same way pride flag is made.
So I guess the joke here is "Our country is founded by Prussia, it united all germans and we are proud of it/being German" but I still have no idea why it had to be like the pride flag. Are these guys not in support of LGBT movement? They also suggested "hey, how about we get rid of the pride month and celebrate Stolzmonat instead" (as in "I'm a proud German") The political landscape is shifting faster than I can follow.
It's one of the campaign flags of the "Stolzmonat" (translation of "pride month" by the letter into German), which was/is a AfD (German MAGA-equivalent, Putin-admirers) anti-LGBTIQ hate-campaign.
german nationalism in the most offensive way possible to both lgbt and people who love their country. afd shooting itself in the foot like it always does and should.
this is definitely white supremacist shit. the horizontal lines are clearly to represent the flag of germany, and the other lines are scaled from white to black. its using the same style as recent LGBTQIA + flags of which the non-horizontal lines are supposed to indicate progress forward. the message seems to be that germany can only progress forward only under the guidance of straight white men. also, the flag is clearly attempting to cover up an anti-fascism message which clearly tells us that these assholes are fascist
Called "Stolzflagge" literal german translation of "pride flag".
Its used by patriots and nationalists on the political right in Germany to push back against LGBTQ.
They usually start appearing around pride month to symbolize that you don not support the LGBTQ movement.
It's the symbolism of some campaign by the AfD (german fascist party) to spread national pride and mock people of the LGBTQ community.
It's called "Stolzmonat" wich litteraly translates to pridemonth. Also their are often sentences like "Schwarz, rot, gold ist bunt genug" (Black, red, gold is colourful enough) along with it.
It's mostly on the internet and a lot of german Nazi accounts engaged with that flag.
It also is frequently used as PfP often with some sort of "🇩🇪🦅✝️" along it.
Anyways: it's fascist crap, and please be careful should you do the right thing an remove it: Some of these fucks put razor blades under their stickers.
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