Subversive? Eh, maybe not the best word choice. We could go with “provocative” and it doesn’t change anything about my point.
The pedantry about the nature of gay pride parades doesn’t change my point either. No matter how “outré” the event, people can still notice something that was, in fact, discordant with the event and intended to confuse.
I’d expect the same reaction if an NAACP march included a Confederate flag with the stars made of, I don’t know, pictures of MLK or something. People would see it and say, WTF? CNN was basically saying WTF.
But CNN took it seriously and talked about Isis existing even in the middle of a gay pride parade and what that signified. You’re being far too generous to them.
Still the flag was recognizable as what it was only if you gave it more than a mere cursory look. And there’s some things on it that I don’t easily recognize, and fear to know how they would be used:o .
Yellow card anyway to the reporter for not bothering to figure it out. Maybe someone with the mentality that ISIS is something you don’t joke about. Or, as someone else said, once they realized what it was, they went “Holy crap, now we can’t SAY on the air what it IS!”
Wouldn’t you expect someone to give more than a cursory glance at something before making a whole news segment about it? It seemed unlikely that a real Isis flag would be used at a gay pride parade, so examining it a little more closely would have been sensible.
Red card, not yellow card. Off the screen and not allowed to play for the next three editions.
