When I started working on this project and saw that a visual piece was needed, I was dead set on using the thumbs up of a game mascot. This was meant to bring greater relevance to the piece as this particular mascot is very well known and even famous, so people would be adpt to look at it. It also helps with the quote that will be explained later. When looking at the background you see the very clear rainbow and black bar. The rainbow is the icon of the LGBT community, and the black bar is for Black Lives matter, two normally calm and peaceful activist groups. Both of these groups, though noble to an extent, are known for trying to enforce what they want to see onto the population, and trying to make people stay quiet when someone says anything against them. This brings me to the quote, which is frankly the most important. The quote is one I thought of to summarize the way that these and other groups are when they speak. Many people in the world are often easily offended by even a hello, sadly. The particular sad part is how they go as far as saying not only are you completely wrong and are invalid, but they go as far as to say that you should die just for existing. Gladly, this is not always the case.
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