Thu Jun 2, 2022 – 6:26 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – As happens every year with the arrival of June’s “Pride Month,” major corporations are signaling their fealty to the LGBT cause by adopting rainbow variants of their logos all over the world … with one conspicuous exception.
Across Twitter, various users have collected examples of companies across a variety of fields rebranding their social media accounts with unmistakable “pride” color schemes for western audiences, but not for their accounts targeting customers in the Middle East.
— Wintery Knight (@Wintery_Knight) June 2, 2022
Weird these companies aren’t embracing PRIDE month in the Middle East. pic.twitter.com/PXWia7uS35
— Tyler Bowyer 🇺🇸 (@tylerbowyer) June 3, 2021
Ok, do middle east now pic.twitter.com/MZYZUJyCod
— TechEpiphany (@TechEpiphany) June 1, 2022
The discrepancy reflects a persistent tension in so-called progressives’ dominant political strategy of playing to the perceived grievances of various groups based on ethnic, religious, or sexual identity, in that occasionally those groups’ dominant values can come into conflict.
In the United States, for instance, leftists regularly cast homosexuals, transgenders, and Muslims (among others) as ongoing victims of institutionalized discrimination and deep-seated cultural bigotry (despite the LGBT community
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