Fox News anchor Will Cain went on a tirade about the new rainbow "Everyone Is Awesome!" Lego LGBTQ+ Pride set, which features 11 figures of ambiguous gender/personage in all the colors of the inclusive Pride flag to promote trans and BIPOC inclusivity within the spectrum of Pride.
The 2018 redesign—seen below including BIPOC and trans pride stripes—addressed issues of exclusion, racism and transphobia in traditional Pride events.
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The updated Pride flag was designed by Portland, Oregon artist Daniel Quasar after being funded through a Kickstarter campaign.
Many called for the updated flag to become the new symbol of the LGBTQ+ community.
#PrideMonth starts today. The flag below is the Progress Pride Flag, designed by Daniel Quasar in 2018 that explici… https://t.co/bpqw8b1NZJ— LGBTQ+ STEM (@LGBTQ+ STEM) 1590992140.0
Cain's Fox News rant didn’t include any of this information however.
Instead, he alleged, among other things, the Lego minifigures bore some link to the Ku Klux Klan.
You can see Cain's tirade here:
absolutely losing my mind watching this https://t.co/5yGyfItayc— John Whitehouse (@John Whitehouse) 1621640592.0
@existentialfish @mmfa Really !?!? These are the things they are making BIG deals about !?!?— Marty Hemsley (@Marty Hemsley) 1621641881.0
@existentialfish The Right is very concerned about what MLK would have thought about Gay Star Wars Lego people P.S… https://t.co/wkfYVJ3Ntc— White Salamander (@White Salamander) 1621643956.0
@existentialfish @Acyn I forgot, what’s the stereotype about green people?— kdunnez (@kdunnez) 1621640896.0
@existentialfish @Acyn dude is going to lose his mind when he sees a box of crayola crayons— Dad Jokes Panda (@Dad Jokes Panda) 1621640792.0
"This separation into color-coding, living up to every stereotype from hairstyle to skin color," Cain ranted, "looks like it could have been designed by David Duke."
David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is a renowned racist and neo-Nazi who endorsed former President Donald Trump for re-election in 2020 and re-registered as a Republican in 2016, after holding no political affiliation for close to 15 years, in order to vote for Trump—a noted darling of Fox News.
Fox News—a network with one of the worst diversity ratings—lecturing about racism wasn't quite the slam dunk Cain thought.
Lolz. Fox News freaking about queer pride Legos? Yup. That was definitely in the bingo card. 🏳️🌈 https://t.co/e1V1DpIXgF— J. Anton Aiello 🚇 (@J. Anton Aiello 🚇) 1621875210.0
They think these are supposed represent skin tones? These are pride colours. The green, and purple people really s… https://t.co/Q4nvemSiLn— 🏳️🌈Social Justice Paladin💖💛💙 (@🏳️🌈Social Justice Paladin💖💛💙) 1621773878.0
Probably not an accident that his tone, cadence and word choice sounds exactly like Tucker Carlson. https://t.co/4dvyo8uK1z— mageuzi 🌈 (@mageuzi 🌈) 1621701459.0
Didn’t David Duke used to be all on Fox News https://t.co/0FPWEEWnSh— Dread Clampett (@Dread Clampett) 1621696513.0
Exhibit no. 372527295 of white men hearing “assimilation” when everyone else says “equality.” https://t.co/fOqoi0yDfl— Mike Yarbrough (@Mike Yarbrough) 1621695194.0
"This is the opposite of Martin Luther King's dream for America, or the American constitutional ideal that every man is created equal," Cain continued.
The minifigures, which are pieces of plastic and not actually real people, stand side by side on a color palette.
The implied message of people of all shapes, sizes, stripes, colors, genders and persuasions having an equal spot is not even subtle.
Sure. What’s more emblematic of division than a bunch of people who look different being together. 🙄 https://t.co/PO9JPuTxHy— Kim Siegel (@Kim Siegel) 1621691424.0
Fox News hosts, the people that know 3 quotes from Dr King (mostly taken out of context) but will tell you exactly… https://t.co/Tgp07FHrUB— jrsyjess (@jrsyjess) 1621689155.0
Farbige Lego-Figuren = Ku-Klux-Klan. Fox News at its best https://t.co/AuQxMhcuCv— Ibn Karim ( إلياس بن كريم ) (@Ibn Karim ( إلياس بن كريم )) 1621689143.0
These are the same people that think affordable healthcare makes you sick, and affordable housing makes you homeles… https://t.co/FtRLjYCQro— Mr. Oldman (@Mr. Oldman) 1621688722.0
Fox News spends its time inviting chicken enthusiasts on air to bash the CDC warnings about salmonella and railing against children's toys.
It's a good thing nothing else is happening in the world, otherwise Fox News viewers would be extremely uninformed.