Anti-Rainbow Keyboard Warriors
Anti-Rainbow Keyboard Warriors A Lesson for Those Who Lashed Out About a Sports Logo Photo by Mercedes Mehling on Unsplash My favorite sports team’s 100-year-old logo is red. For about half the games it’s white on red. For St. Patrick’s Day, it has been green. A small group of feisty, hardworking players who were fan favorites wore the logo in black and that apparel trended in the stands for a while. This June, the organization posted the logo on social media in the rainbow colors associated with Pride Month, the celebration of the LGBTQ community. The reaction was swift, angry, misspelled, and probably still raging . If you’ve ever put on a hazmat suit with a disposable vitriol shield and waded into the comments section anywhere, you don’t need me to tell you what it was like. I’m just surprised that the simple change of the hue of a sports logo would trigger the kind of anger that it did. Breaking it down: I t’s a logo. I’m well aware that people take gr...