by Olivia Murray
In the city of Arnsberg, Germany, on some steps at a local bus station, students of a nearby school had painted a “Pride” flag down the risers of the stairs, as part of a “diversity and tolerance project.” But then, as reported by Thomas Brooke at Remix News, someone changed it up—a dreaded and evil nationalist no doubt—effectively painting a German flag over the students’ “art” installation (photo above):
🇩🇪🌈 Someone painted over a rainbow staircase with the German national flag in the town of Arnsberg, and the local Green Party cried about it…
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 3, 2026
"This is an extreme right-wing statement. This means you are against diversity, peace, and freedom." pic.twitter.com/0IbfVOKd8C
When the leftists saw what had been done, outrage erupted:
Local Green Party council leader Verena Verspohl condemned the action, calling it a political statement directed against minorities. In a social media video, she said: ‘Spraying a rainbow staircase in black, red, and gold is not a political statement. That is an extreme right-wing statement. It can’t be misinterpreted. This means that it is against diversity, against queer people, against peace, freedom, and a colorful society, and in favor of nationalism.’
Painting your country’s flag in a public space is somehow not a completely reasonable political statement, but an “extreme” act of “right-wing” aggression against certain portions of the population? In a sane world, we’d call that insanity. And, if the motive of the patriotic painter(s) really were a statement against “queer” individuals, AKA queer leftists? To that I say, good. This morning, an AT reader sent us a story about how ten men in France had been arrested and charged with raping a 5-year-old boy they’d procured from the boy’s father; this child was the “entertainment” for their “chemsex” party, which is, apparently, where a bunch of gays get together, do drugs, and engage in obscene sexual behavior, either with each other, or in this case, a drugged child. So forgive me for not giving a flying rat’s rear about statements against “queer people” who are part of the gay crusade. (Let’s not forget who commits more than half of the sex crimes against children, while comprising just a fraction of the overall adult population.)
Verspohl also added that while she didn’t have a problem with the German banner being flown in private spaces, it “doesn’t work at all” in public spaces:
‘Paint yourselves in national colors at home, hang the flag in your garden, do what you want. But this is the public space. That doesn’t work at all. Incidentally, it’s a pupil’s work, a pupil’s star work, which is being trampled on here.’
Read that again: The German flag is an unwelcome sight in Germany’s public square. And it wasn’t just Green Party officials who had a problem with the banners of black, red, and gold, but other “city officials” as well, who filed a complaint with local law enforcement. In an an ironic twist, the complaints about the flag being a “statement” against peace and freedom are beyond asinine, as the colors literally represent a journey from servitude to liberty and prosperity: the black represents the darkness of oppression, thrown off through a bloody struggle (red), emerging into the golden age of democracy, unity, freedom, and peace. The “Pride” flag is inarguably, only representative of a small bit of the overall population, while the German flag represents every German.
Again, why do these idiots even have a say in the political process? Voting is a privilege (not a right!), and their privileges need to be revoked.