This is shaping up to be the thing right wing nuts get outraged about this upcoming week. I feel like this is a good litmus test… anyone who gets angry about this is probably way more of a white nationalist than they are letting on. You think these same people who be angry about a blue/white/orange tricolor, saying it’s too close to the Dutch flag?
The original tweet is not even correct in any way. Ilhan Omar is not from Puntland, she’s from Mogadishu. Her father is from the area of Puntland. But Puntland didn’t even exist on a map until 1998 - when Ilhan Omar was 17 years old. No one in her family, including her, ever lived in a place called “Puntland.” Her father was basically from the area that became Puntland, but never lived in it at any time it was referred to as “Puntland.”
Furthermore, the Puntland flag is from 2009 - 14 years after Ilhan Omar’s family was in the United States. Not even her father has any ties to that flag, its extremely modern. Chuds will just find anything to get worked up over.
edit: Puntland didn’t even exist until 3 years after Ilhan Omar’s family was in the United States
edit 2: furthermore, I’d love to see EndWokeness’ source for “largest Somali population in the west” because I don’t think that’s true either. I’m pretty sure London has more Somali people than Minnesota.
I guess this dude is counting on nobody outside Minnesota looking into this at all, because even the Wikipedia page on their state flag has a subsection for the North Star Flag design from 1989 that most of the redesign finalists are based on.
that’s cool I didn’t know they were getting rid of the shitty old racism one.
Mostly performative, but still cool.
I do dislike this trend towards minimalism in flags, though. Flags should have weapons and fantasy animals and weird symbolism. There was an alternative proposal that I think was like a loon firing laser beams at Wisconsin from its eyes or something.
Edit: The flag should have just said “HA HA FUCK YOU VIRGINIA WE’VE STILL GOT YOUR FLAG” in comic sans.
I do dislike this trend towards minimalism in flags
I blame map gamers and r/vexillology, and I’m probably not even wrong.
Old flag is so ugly
First off it’s way too busy, at a distance it doesn’t look like anything
Second, racist as hell
Third, not symmetrical
Just awful, one of the worst flags I’ve ever seen
Yeah, that first one is classic US state flag design, incomprehensible and fails at everything a flag is supposed to do. The new one works quite well as a flag.
I think the new one is… fine. An improvement. But it’s still more of just stars and tricolors.
Yeah, it’s functional, that’s how I’d describe it. If it were a country’s flag I would not be able to remember which country 5 minutes after I saw it.
Oh no, Somali immigrants getting some acknowledgement, the horror!
Something tells me the people who have a problem with this wouldn’t have a problem with a flag that acknowledges the Norwegian or Swedish settlers who were there.
Yeah, even if this were true–which it almost certainly isn’t–how is this a problem (or “woke”)? The state flag design paying homage to something demographically unique about the state seems pretty reasonable to me.
They made a better flag, it’s joever, I can hear the red judeo-bolshevik army stomping in the streets already.
