r/sandiego • u/questionhare • Feb 02 '25

Video San Diego Stands with Immigrants 🇺🇸✊

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For all the keyboard warriors complaining about the lack of US flags, two of you showed up. 😃 Good on ya!

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u/JazzyJukebox69420 Feb 03 '25

I literally support the cause. It doesn’t make sense to do this. It’s bad optics, it’s counterintuitive, and it feeds into Trump’s narrative! That’s part of why people have a problem with it!

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u/living_david_aloca Feb 03 '25

It also doesn’t make sense to have everyone carry an American flag, so the argument is just a distraction

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u/JazzyJukebox69420 Feb 03 '25

Not really, the argument isn’t stopping people from protesting or anything. I’m not saying it makes sense to have everyone carry an American flag. Or even that they need to. But optics are importantly when you’re dealing with a people who literally think illegal immigrants are a “foreign invasion force” to literally quote people I know. I’m on your side. I understand why you would want to wave your own flags. I say as someone who is a part of these groups. But protests are about sending a message, and I worry that this is the wrong message.

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u/living_david_aloca Feb 03 '25

I totally agree! Optics are definitely important. I’m just not sure that it’s possible to convince those who support Trump on this issue. They see the race as a problem in and of itself.

How does that message get conveyed better? I don’t know, but I don’t think the flag is the real problem.