r/vexillology May 29 '25

Identify Help identify this flag in Germany

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Found this flag cut out sticker in the small German town of Irrel. Can someone identify this flag?

Irrel: https://maps.app.goo.gl/NgVkz7ow3FFwUmX3A?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

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u/[deleted] May 29 '25

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u/MATHIS111111 Jun 01 '25

I never understood what's wrong with the word "Stolzmonat", it's literally just the translation of "pride month". They can make fun of the concept all they want, but the word itself isn't any more derogatory than the English one.

As if "Vatertag" is somehow more far right or nationalistic than "father's day".

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u/Shiros_Tamagotchi Jun 02 '25

I never understood whats wrong with the word "Nationalsozialismus", it is literally just the combination of nationalism and sozialism.

Because it was/is used by Nazis and symbolizes their inhumane worldview. The word is a symbol, not only its literal meaning.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '25

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u/MATHIS111111 Jun 01 '25 edited Jun 01 '25

And I can tell you that the word "independents day" actually describes the overtaking of the government by lizard people and how they convinced us that the earth isn't flat. Doesn't make it true though.

Words are what people define them as and hundreds of millions of people define "pride month" as the celebratory month for queers. Just because you put that in Google translate it doesn't change its meaning.

And why are you even trying to grant these people that they own the word "Stolzmonat"? That doesn't make sense to me. Just use the word like it's English counterpart and they will stop using it.

Besides, I'll never understand why people have this need to lend words from other languages when there are direct and fitting translations. Sometimes it makes sense, oftentimes it clearly doesn't. Especially if people can't even correctly pronounce them. "th" is everything but intuitive for most non-English natives and having something like "nth" doesn't help. And if you just take the "pride" it becomes a chopped together mess. Neither "Pridemonat" nor "Pride Monat" make any sense.

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