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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Here I sit behind my sand bags, with my little tin hat on, holding a pen (its mightier than a sword apparently).
The question is often asked "is it racist" about a number of subjects, well, here is the truth of the matter as I see it
The flag of saint George.
On its own, the flag of st George isn't a racist flag, nether is the union jack, what IS racist, is the rhetoric attached to it by right wing party's since the late 60's.
The national front among others, used and abused the symbolism of the national flag, with its supporters using it to show their affiliation with such groups, I remember even hearing the chant "ain't no black in thee union jack, send the bastards back" the fact that the flags of England and Great Britain, are seen as racist, can't be set down at the door of ethnic minorities, who somehow are accused of being over sensitive, it should be placed firmly at the door of rightwing extremists, who now bitch and moan about the flag being seen as racist.
So the reason people see it as racist, to display england flags, is because racists, have made it that way, the reason people see it as racist to celebrate St George's day, is because racists have made it that way.
Over the last few months, as referendum fever has gripped the nation, and the european cup has started, the flag waving has intensified to fever pitch, and along with said flag waving, has come the preemptive defense of said flag, and its coming in waves of memes on social media, and shared posts of cards dropped through letter boxes (one of which is from a housing association, that wouldn't allow a flag of any nation to fly outside one of their properties, and has little to do with loony left local government).
I've said it before, I'm a proud Englishman, I love my country, and they are my flabgs too, but they are being tarnished by people who say the love their country, buy whaytthey are actually doing is hasting other countries.
Is this what all those brave men and women of our armed forces, who have lost their lives in the name of freedom died for, so some hate filled knuckle dragging moron, can effectively piss on the flag
Its my flag, and I want it back |
