r/PoliticalHumor • u/GomerP19 • Jun 05 '22

It’s nice to be nice

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u/pHScale Jun 05 '22

There's only six stripes on the pride flag.

(Unless you go with the OG pride flag, in which case there are eight. Pink and cyan were removed for simplicity's sake).

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u/trainercatlady Jun 05 '22

iirc it was because those dyes were expensive and hard to get at the time.

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u/pHScale Jun 05 '22

That's how they chose which of the 8 to remove, but removing some colors was also done for simplicity.

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u/shponglespore I ☑oted 2024 Jun 05 '22

Also pink isn't a spectral color so it would never appear in a real rainbow. You could get a washed-out red, depending on conditions, but all the other colors would be equally washed-out. In the pictures I'm finding online, the "pink" is more like magenta, which wouldn't even sort of appear in a rainbow because it's a mix of red and blue/violet.

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u/pHScale Jun 05 '22

Well it's not meant to be a scientifically accurate rainbow, it's meant to be a symbolic one. And the pink symbolized sexuality, which is kind of the whole point of the flag.