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Flag waving

TheCatWoman

It seems that the English flag is being used again as a symbol of nationalism, being paraded around the streets by those wanting rid of asylum seekers and placed in gardens.

Do you feel comfortable with it? I don't, for me it's tainted by Neo Nazi's and other fascists, or for football.

In Britain we've never had a habit of flag use and worship like some other countries, mostly seen in America and I wouldn't like us to acquire the habit. 

Am I the only one to find it ironic that St George was a Turk? He supplanted St Edmund as Englands national saint on a whim of Richard the Lionheart, we have lots of native saints to choose from, St Alban, St Edward, St Thomas A'Becket, St Hilda, and so many more often more obscure ones like St Petroc or St Willibrord.

I also feel uncomfortable that as a non Christian the flag is a blatently Christian religious symbol, at least in Wales we have Ye Ddraig Goch, The Red Dragon, nice and mythological and non religious.

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  • TheCatWoman said:

    being paraded around the streets by those wanting rid of asylum seekers and placed in gardens.

    Do you feel comfortable with it? I don't, for me it's tainted by Neo Nazi's and other fascists

    Yeah that’s what we’ve got with flags in the US. So no, I’m not really comfortable with the flag waving either. Sad to hear y’all are starting to have some of the same issues we have over here.

    I wish it was associated with football/soccer here in the US.

  • in reply to profdanger

    If only it were just football, and thats bad enough!

    I wonder what it's like for people who live in areas where flag waving has become common, who don't display a flag? I don't imagine it's comfortable and I doubt if it will be long before they become targets.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    So flags aren’t quite unanimous enough for people that don’t hang them to be targeted thankfully. But I feel like it is easy to generalize the population that do as either Republican (they also commonly hang TRUMP 2024 flags along with it) or veterans (who honestly have good reason to). We do have a lot of people brave enough to hang LGBTQ+ flags, which I would personally be worried about being targeted for (especially in my area)

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    So flags aren’t quite unanimous enough for people that don’t hang them to be targeted thankfully. But I feel like it is easy to generalize the population that do as either Republican (they also commonly hang TRUMP 2024 flags along with it) or veterans (who honestly have good reason to). We do have a lot of people brave enough to hang LGBTQ+ flags, which I would personally be worried about being targeted for (especially in my area)

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