I feel like this comment section is split by (1) people who assume that an app icon on a phone is a reasonable place to make political statements and (2) those who don’t.
I’m not against a cause just because I prefer my app icons to not change colors with the political season.
As someone said much better than I ever could, I don't want to impose my values upon others, but I want to show others who have the same values I do they are not alone.
Saying that you're changing your logo to "show others who have the same values I do they are not alone" implies that you're expressing some very exceptional values. I struggle to imagine what values are best at connecting to lonely people through their phone homescreen.
What this really is, is showing political compliance. Just like what Italians had to do in the late 30s to prevent their businesses from being destroyed.
How would you feel if most apps all over the App Store for one whole month used right wing political symbology to signal their compliance? I’m sure you’d get pretty angry about it. Try to put yourself in other’s shoes, and stop participating in this low-effort fascism.
Positioning your identity around sexuality (what pride month is essentially) is a left issue, sexual orientation or preference in general is not. GLBT people have allowed themselves to be used and abused by the system and the corporations unfortunately.
Claiming that hard left politics isn't really politics at all, is a silly and transparent tactic which fools nobody.
Imagine if half your app icons suddenly changed to incorporate dollar signs in celebration of Capitalism Month. Every day a new CEO is celebrated for their job creation prowess and you can't avoid it because it's everywhere. Would you simply shrug and say, well, we live in a capitalist country so it's not political? Of course not. The craziness that would unleash would bea sight to behold.
Luckily for you, people elsewhere on the political spectrum don't share your need to constantly sealion every conversation and space.
> Imagine if half your app icons suddenly changed to incorporate dollar signs in celebration of Capitalism Month.
Why would that be? Every month is "Capitalism Month". Also, I can't remember the last time capitalists (the ones with the capital, not their workers who aspire one day to have capital) were oppressed.
I knew someone would give this sort of thought terminating cliché as a reply. At least you aren't denying that these things are hard left politics.
Nobody ever overtly celebrates capitalism. It isn't true that there is such a thing as "capitalism month" in the same way there is pride month, with explicitly named events, flags suddenly popping up everywhere and so on. Communism has May 1st but capitalism? No. There never has been. You know this full well, which is why you have to lie to try and distract from the point - if there was such an event you'd hate it.
LGBT people aren't oppressed anywhere that celebrates pride day/week/month but at any rate, the obsession with dividing society into oppressed and oppressors is pure hard left ideology. Always was, since the days of Marx or even the French Revolution. It has no place being forced into people's lives via every possible angle - that is and always has been the strategy of highly destructive people.
