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Greg Evans
Jul 01, 2017

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A cynical campaign to mock the LGBTQ community on Twitter has spectacularly backfired.
The hashtag #HetrosexualPrideDay was started towards the end of June, the official pride month.
It was initially started as a vicious attack on LGBTQ people, trolling both them and those that support it.
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However, it was quickly picked up by the more progressive wings of Twitter who used it to highlight the social inequalities that LGBTQ people face everyday.
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The LGBTQ community also had some hilarious comebacks to the controversial hashtag.
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In an unwise move, Markus Persson, also known as Notch, the man behind popular video game Minecraft tweeted that anyone opposing #HetrosexualPrideDay deserved to be shot. He has since deleted the Tweet but it didn't stop others from capturing it.
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Whilst it was fun to mock this ridiculous idea, tweets like the following really exemplified just how idiotic something like #HetrosexualPrideDay truly is.
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HT Guardian
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