US School Board Candidate Uses Nazi Imagery To Attack Pride Flag

A rightwing school board candidate in Michigan posted an image of four Progress Pride flags arranged so that the sky blue, brown, and black stripes create a swastika.

Craig Ladyman, who is running for school board in Rockford, Michigan, posted “Like my new Pride flag?” on Donald Trump’s Twitter clone Truth Social.

The image drew criticism from the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.

“It cheapens the Holocaust,” Rabbi David Krishef of the Ahavas Israel congregation in Grand Rapids told Fox 17. “It cheapens the suffering that their families went through.”

According to LGBTQ Nation, Rockford Public Schools Superintendent Steven Matthews also denounced Ladyman. “It’s a symbol that I don’t think represents who we are as a community and anybody who would use it I don’t think represents who we are as a community,” he said. The post has since been deleted.

In a statement, Ladyman said that he didn’t create the image but wanted to share it so that people would “do their research into this flag.”

“This movement is hostile towards gay people, it doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of women, it encourages and promotes the mutilation of children and experimentation on children,” he said the creator of the image told him. “It hates free speech! It will ruin your job and it will remove you from your job if you don’t bow down and worship to it.”

This isn’t the first time he has made controversial statements. A campaign slogan on his fundraising website says: “Vote Ladyman: He knows what a woman is!”

The LA Blade found other social media posts from Ladyman showing his opposition to LGBTQ+ rights. “I like exercising my liberty like a drag queen exercises their sexuality,” he captioned a picture of himself holding a rifle in front of a state government building.

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