In the video I watched it was made very aware to me that the event was organised by the Monzonauts not the company itself. This is a very important stance to take.
I’d disagree that the 1% even benefit a lot of banking at the moment is for the bankers themselves and this unhealthy idealism that money is the most important thing.
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Good Lord it’s a rainbow.
If this bothers you so much then congrats; you have few things to really worry about in your daily life.
Just. Blooming. Relax.
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Yea, I like the rainbow being shown. Personally would love to see more awareness shown for other “days” as well, like Chinese New Year (as normal New Years gets emojis if I’m not mistaken) or St David’s day. (100% didn’t just lost those because I’m half welsh, half Chinese 
No need to even argue that point it’s a fact. A company just by itself is nothing it’s the people inside it that makes it what it is. (For good or for bad.) For example Sports Direct and Greenpeace. Two very different companies which to me elicit two different responses just from reading their names.
made me smile and pause and think about all the inequality in the world that still exists.
Then I went about my day (because I’m privileged enough to be able to do that).
Thank you Monzo for taking a gentle stance for this, and celebrating other things in the past (and the future) as well. A few changes to icons to raise awareness of things is a wonderful way to make a gentle but firm point. More of this please you lovely people you!
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No one got offended when the leprechaun was using the rainbow for hiding pot of gold at the end of it tho 
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I’m not sure (from memory) that anyone is offended by the rainbow emoji. I think that some people have expressed the view that they’d rather not see emojis which celebrate what they may see as political or religious events in notifications.
While it’s not my view, I think it’s a perfectly reasonable view to express.
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It is a perfectly reasonable view to express if done so reasonably.
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I can get where people are coming from with saying Pride is political but only in so far as it has political goals that are part of it as a movement. A subtle distinction but important nonetheless.
I’m ‘cautious’ (for want of a better word) of the rainbow emoji (and others) for a different reason - so far we’ve had Eid and Pride related emoji on transactions, which over events/movements/cultures etc will also be reflected in emoji? Will people take offence if an England flag is used should we win the World Cup or fireworks for Diwali but not bonfire night? It shouldn’t be a slippery slope but it feels like it could become one.
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I get that, but generally everything can be viewed as a political or religious act if you try hard enough. I had people get offended/angry when I had long hair and viewed it as some kind of political or social stance on my part…so people will get offended even if the intent of stating political/social/religious/etc affiliation is not there.
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It’s almost bound to be. There’ll always be someone who’s annoyed that Monzo celebrates this event, but doesn’t celebrate that event.
I’m sure they were aware that there would be criticism, and that they would occasionally get it wrong, and they’ve decided to go with it anyway. Monzo seem to me to be the sort of organisation which is happy to make mistakes and receive criticism, because they can use that to help them improve.
Should we really care about intolerant people?
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Absolutely. There are enough different definitions of the word political for just about any action to fall into that category.
I take Stephen Fry’s view of offence. To paraphrase him, you can’t give offence, you can only take offence.
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…was thinking the same thing
We might be in danger of drifting off topic, but I’d have thought that Pride was all about being concerned with intolerance.
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It’s about celebrating inclusion.
If anyone feels offended by Monzo using rainbow symbols well personally I think it’s better that they aren’t a part of the community.
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Maybe, but not really in this case. LGBT, pride, and the flag were literally created as a politician movement. Maybe it’s just a lack of awareness of most people who don’t know this or that the term politics has been pushed as a bad term, but that’s just what it is.
Some people are offended by it I guess, some people don’t mind, and some people would just rather not have any emoji or otherwise like that pushed onto their personal devices without option.
Monzo? Or are you suggesting that people who think unequal representation of things like this are intolerant? If the latter your comment doesn’t make sense.
Within their goals (specific inequality towards LGBT people) yes.
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(edit: much better fence…)
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And if anybody is offended by that then they know how to close their account. Dress up homophobia anyway you like, hiding behind a thin veil of “not supporting political movements” is just an attempted to hide ones intolerance.
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Being offended by it (which I’ve not seen anyone here actually being offended?) and not liking politics pushed in their devices are not the same. Not sure how you got that from three clearly different examples of views.
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