This article demonstrates how discourses create contrasting meanings of the Star of David in queer contexts, indicating deeper moral beliefs amidst nationalist tensions.
This article examines how political conflict arises through discourses constructing contrastive social meanings for the same sign, conceptualizing controversy over the 2019 DC Dyke March ban of the Jewish LGBTQ+ pride flag as a case of indexical misrecognition. Through multimodal digital discourse analysis of Facebook posts and comments, I analyze how interactants construct a contested sign—the Star of David—as a component of two separate bricolage constructions: the Jewish pride flag and Israeli flag. The article demonstrates that semiotic investigations of conflict over sign use reveal complex beliefs about moral ways of navigating the world and interacting within (anti)nationalist political systems.
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