Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 23 hours agoIn England if there isn’t a national sporting event on and there is a st George’s crosshanging in your window there is a much better chance it means your primary hobby is skulling pints and harassing brown people at the pub with your mates than it meaning you’re just a huge fan of English heritage.
The UK has a flag that encompasses all the nations of the UK and hasn’t been co-opted as a hate symbol, the union flag. If you were wanting to show national pride just for the sake of it, it’s likely you’d fly that.
Yes. None of these are hard and fast rules, no, not everyone flying a st George’s cross is a nazi.
But maybe take it from the multiple people in this thread who live in England telling you what we all know this symbol to mean in certain contexts instead of trying to play some academic game
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
Maybe the English should all fly it then and take it back. Just like the other three countries in the UK where I hear flying your flag is normal.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Maybe so? What’s your point though.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
We shouldn’t assume someone is racist for flying St George’s cross or criticise people for flying the flag itself. Instead we should criticise racism at the core instead of dancing around low hanging grapes. Such as the US puppet nigel farage
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
You can do whatever the hell you want. You’re just describing a world it would be nice to be in. That isn’t our world and you’re offering nothing about how to get there. But you’re VERY sure we should only be mean to racists once we get it signed in triplicate by the asshole police that they are indeed officially assholes