I don't think you'd find any bigots that could make the mental or physical effort to take it down.
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They'd probably shoot at it though.
Unfortunately I've met a few.
I was a search and rescue mountaineer/EMT for a decade. There are bigots in the field. You get a lot of "conservatives" with military or law endorsement backgrounds.
Also, to take something like this down, you'd start from the top and rappel down to it. It's how they do most rescues on El Cap (or any cliff for that matter)
I don't think you could make the physical effort to tear it down either
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They made the damn cliff gay. Because of woke
It's like that happy days episode where they ended world hunger by playing a song at pop's.
Rocky single handedly ended the Cold War in Rocky 4!
I can see why people who spend their lives, through no choice of their own, between a rock and a hard place, would find lifting themselves like magic up a massive rock face with only the sun and glorious air at their backs elating in comparison.
It takes only a cursory look at the strange, outcast filled history of rock climbing to see why the community might understand the importance of solidarity with people that just can't fit into the box.
Obviously we can never know if the first rock climbers were queer, but to wonder if maybe your heart desires to climb straight up a cliff into the sky and then develop the skill, knowledge and support to do so is certainly a queer thing to do.
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Love & Respect 🏳️⚧️
Anyone complaining about this because flag on cliff knows nothing of climbing history in Yosemite. Flags have been flown by people climbing el cap for a long time.
Ammon McNeely was a genuine legend of Yosemite and big wall climbing in general. He was known as the el cap pirate for flying a skull and cross bones as he climbed. One example.
So if this uniquely upsets you then ask yourself why. Admit it's probably a bigoted response. If this does not uniquely upset you... Then you better be making arguments against climbing el cap at all as it has been climbed for decades. And I better see you getting just as pissed in the comment section of any climbing blog.
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