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    Donal Fallon: „Poppygate“ ist zu weit gegangen – Großbritannien muss das Recht der Menschen respektieren, das Symbol nicht zu tragen


    Donal Fallon: „Poppygate“ ist zu weit gegangen – Großbritannien muss das Recht der Menschen respektieren, das Symbol nicht zu tragen

    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/donal-fallon-poppygate-has-gone-too-far-britain-must-respect-peoples-right-not-to-wear-the-symbol/a1505293699.html

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    1. shorelined on

      I grew up in Britain and the changes I’ve seen with regard to this in the last 25 years is insane. You always saw plenty of people wearing poppies and a remembrance day parade, but it now seems to have turned into some sort of cosplay event. It has coincided with the last of the generation of people who fought in the world wars dying, people who never shouted loudly about their experiences.

      If I’m ever home around this time now I will see people actually dressed up in uniforms as if they are in Belgium in 1917, and people decorating as if it is Christmas. I refuse to believe that many of these people, and those who shout loudest about anybody not offering Maximum Respect, have seriously learnt any of the lessons that the world wars offered us. This is why the poppy has now extended to any troop who has „served their country“, even if meant shooting brown people in the desert or civilians on the streets of Ireland.

    2. Maester_Bates on

      I’m 43 years old and I have no memory of this being a thing when I was young. Like the rest of the country I watched a lot of British TV and read British newspapers and magazines but I don’t remember wearing poppies being a big thing.

    4. ShapeMcFee on

      Whether I wear one or not has nothing to do with these so called patriots .. its an anti war stance to wear one not a I support war . I think it was one of the tory rags that started this and they should be made to come and explain themselves.
      I’m British and I won’t be told by a newspaper what I should and shouldn’t do . Fuck them

    7. adjavang on

      Expecting foreigners to wear something in remembrance of something from your culture is absolutely bizarre. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

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