Does anyone know what this flag means?

https://lemmy.ca/post/22555374

Does anyone know what this flag means? - Lemmy.ca

I saw a convoy of about 30 cars on the highway back in October. I looked it up and found nothing. Then I see a Reddit post in /r/vexillollogy with the same flag and no useful answers. It’s so weird that people bought like 100 of these flags and there is no info on them at all! I flipped the picture to make the flag the right way.

Please let it not be horrible, please let it not be horrible, please let it not be horrible…
With the trucker convoy sticker and the anti-trans save our children sticker, I’d say the ods are is horrible.
crazy that "#saveourchildren" is somehow anti-trans to these people
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Being trans, gay, understanding of the world, or empathetic is what they’re trying to “save the children” from, in that order of priorities.
Save the children from what?
I think it’s to save them from sexual orientation education in schools? Some people think teaching our kids about gender fluidity and acceptance will somehow make them gay.
Yeah that’s my point. It seems like the person is saying that it’s crazy to believe that the #savethechildren bumper sticker is anti-trans. It’s a really common right-wing ‘trick’. You make up a phrase implying gay or trans people are after kids and then go “it doesn’t say anything about that on the sticker, I guess that says something about trans people if that’s where your mind went” when called out on it.
cool ur jets buddy you have it backwards
Sorry, I’ve just seen nearly that exact wording from anti-trans people.
Genuine naive question, but why is it such an inherent problem being anti-trans if you’re not hurting anyone with that belief? Isn’t it even more “equal” to accept people’s right to have opinions you don’t like? I don’t think trans people shouldn’t exist, but that shouldn’t mean I have to like it.

If you genuinely think trans people aren’t being hurt by anyone who carries the anti-trans belief, then I recommend looking up some of the many news articles that details violence against trans people.

I’ve provided some for you, I genuinely hope that you take the time to read these.

…law.ucla.edu/…/ncvs-trans-press-release/

hrc.org/…/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-…

aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024

The last one I posted tracks all of the current anti-LGBT legislation that’s trying to pass into law. It’s not just physical or emotional violence trans and LGBT people face, it’s also people trying to enact laws that actively deny their rights as human beings. This isn’t exclusive to America either, I got results from all over the world during my search.

You may not be violent in your beliefs, but it doesn’t mean others aren’t.

Transgender people over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime

Williams Institute
That is why I qualified the statement with “if you’re not hurting anyone”

That depends on what you mean by not hurting anyone with that belief. You can believe in whatever you want if it honestly doesn’t hurt anyone else, but that’s not usually how it goes. Just leaving a comment saying you dislike trans people is hurtful. Imagine scrolling through a comment section and seeing random comments where people say they hate that you exist.

How can you reconcile believing they have the right to exist with not liking that they exist? How is that functionally any different?

Isn’t it even more “equal” to accept people’s right to have opinions you don’t like?

See the Paradox of Tolerance.

Paradox of Tolerance

Yes that’s exactly what I was referring to.

They should be tolerant of people that don’t agree with them, and vice versa. But that shouldn’t IMO mean we have to like it or be banned from a discussion just because of a difference of opinion… but I have been seeing a hair trigger on anyone even remotely disagreeing on this.

Genuine naive question, but why is it such an inherent problem being racist if you're not hurting anyone with that belief? Isn't it even more "equal" to accept people's right to have opinions you don't like? I don't think black people shouldn't exist, but that shouldn't mean I have to like it.

like what?

He’s got it right, took me a second to parse but in a vacuum “save our children” doesn’t have connotations with transgender individuals, but in our nonvacuum it lends plausible deniability as to what the true message is

Specifically, it’s to save their children (who are absolutely all straight and cis-gendered) from any exposure to others; except to ostracize, harm, and eliminate those others.

Here in Alberta, “Take Back Alberta” is a group of fear-mongering hate-based transphobic assholes who organized the “Save The Children” and other protests, and now are pulling the strings in our government. The leader is a contemptible home-schooled evangelical minister.

Ahhhh nuts… I didn’t notice the stickers…
Any weird flags you don’t recognize that don’t involve rainbows are either sexual orientation flags (biaexuals have the best by far!) or some weird right wing shit.
Sheldon would like a word
youre ok? you seem mentally unstable.
That seems uncalled for, care to explain?
Gemini didn’t know and Copilot was absolutely incompetent.
Beats me. Never seen it. Just deep dived for an hour trying to find it but no luck. Wonder if it isn’t some new splinter Green group. Or a local Green Party’s flag. Where was this?
I saw it on the 417 between Ottawa and Montreal. This picture is in Ottawa.
We sure have a lot of interesting people in Ottawa don’t we?
The Quebec plate I missed before. That and the trucker convoy sticker along with the green color suggest some sort of Quebecoise right winger.
It seems like it is 2 stock images put together by the person. So it could mean anything.
There were at least 50 of these flags across 30 or so cars that I saw. But yeah, those aren’t HUGE numbers so if they organized offline and distributed the flags among themselves it could be about anything.
That’s really interesting, sounds like it is made to identify a group.
It’s all the places in Canada where you can find maple leaves.
trees don’t grow up north
Not yet, but Edmonton is helping make that happen.
Who said anything about whole trees? If a car is there I guarantee there’s some maple leaves stuck to it somewhere. Look in that space between the windshield and under the hood 😁
You may not be familiar with Canada, it’s large and diverse. There are people who go their whole lives without seeing a tree, let alone a deciduous one.

It’s really hard to tell without more signage from that particular “protest”, but October seemed to be a month where the “Save the Children Convoy” was harassing the city of Ottawa. They’re a group of loonies who believe that queer folks are pedophiles, actual pedophiles are sacrosanct community leaders, and that flouride and 5g are mind control, and that everything fascists want to ban is child abuse.

So… Could be related to that.

The cut off orange sticker starts with #SaveTheChildren so it seems you’re on the right track.
Submerge America under the ocean and terraform Greenland to be the shape of a maple leaf.
I support this movement
As an American, me too. We’re a virus infecting the rest of the world.
Mostly corporations and lobbyists. It seems to me that they hold american people hostage.
Also, continue to deny the existence of mythical New Zealand.
Another map that doesn’t show New Zealand!
I’ve been to Atlantis, El Dorado, and Camelot however there is no way this place called New Zealand is real.
I’m pretty sure the movie industry made it up to dodge taxes.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

That will definitely work if your goal is to just kill American people.

Most american corpos have foreign offices, which would become their new HQs.

You’d be throwing the baby out with the bathwater and moving the problem onto your own doorstep.

I have to applaud these mental gymnasts. It must be exhausting to shift your identity from cult to cult.
Just be happy you don’t know… because it’s undoubtedly dumb shit, and move along. :)
No, but I'd bet it has to do with being a participant of some particular group or another which has been doing the far right the trucker convoys.
Especially as it’s being flown from a giant oversized pickup truck.

And they have some shit sticker with a transport truck and the word merci which is thanks in french.

100% some traitorous prick

From the color… the greens???
Switch to coal and uproot GE trees kind of greens?
The trucker sticker on the rear window is a clue though it’s too blurry to read other than “merci.”
It says #SaveTheChildren, safe to say these are bigoted and pro-convoy stickers
It looks like the map has removed the border between Ontario and Quebec?
Save us s’il vous plaît
Make Canada green again?