Die englische Flagge sei zu einem rassistischen Symbol geworden, sagen Erwachsene ethnischer Minderheiten

The crosses of St George are flying all around me

Gareth Southgate the whole of England is with you

Oh it’s saved, saved, saved!

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Weren’t there interviews with ethnic minorities saying they’re not bothered by national flags?

>England flag has become a racist symbol, say ethnic minority adults

Erm…it started to be used by racists decades ago…

Edit: loving the downvotes. I’m stating a literal and verifiable fact. Check out its use during the original Caribbean/Windrush migration.

Hijacked like the Eurasia and Asia svastika

People are not understanding what’s happened here.

England hasn’t used flags heavily, ever really. It only really comes out during major sporting events. However, the England flag was heavily used by white nationalists while intimidating minorities.

It stopped for a while, but in recent months, it’s happening again. Fans of ‚Tommy Robinson‘ always do this, and of recent months, people started putting flags up everywhere on public property. Most of those people are on the *hard* right of the political spectrum in areas where Reform are often leading in the polls.

Most people, **minorities included don’t have a problem with the flag per se**, but as often with racism in the UK, there’s an intent behind a lot of it which isn’t friendly. You can normally tell the difference if you’re not being obtuse.

Listening to LBC (talk radio), you’ve got stories of people putting up literally hundreds of flags on lamp posts, trying to make a statement. While some have said, they then put up flags of other countries, like Ukraine, only to have it torn down.

Reform who now run Nottinghamshire County Council are spending £75k on putting flags up, while claiming actual essentials are a waste of money. This isn’t America, we know what country we’re in.

Saying that, I’ve had no problem with flags on government buildings or on a town square or something, but there’s a clear intent from some, and some media outlets are pretending there isn’t, gaslighting people who have a problem with said intent. England should be able to be proud of it’s flag, we just need it to be balanced.

Context matters. There’s some footie thing going on? Absolutely no problem whatsoever. You’re one of those folks who just habitually flies the flag? Absolutely no problem whatsoever. But if you’re just throwing the flag all of a sudden up everywhere because you don’t like migration or Yaxley-Lennon told you to do it then yes, it’s becoming a racist symbol.

What woke bs is this

This is kind of sad. This has been a trend with far-right extremists using the country’s flag for their evil and vile cause, and anyone who speaks out gets gaslit, with things like, Why? Don’t you like the flag?

I think the winning party in the Netherlands did it in an amazing way, when the centrist party, whose headquarters were destroyed only a couple of weeks before by these far-right criminals, won the election, everyone was waving the Dutch flag. That’s the message that we need to send. Don’t let your country’s flag and the pride of your nation be stolen by these racists.

I mean this is probably a misrepresentation of the intent.

The issue is a lot of far right dipshits like the Tommy Robinson fans wave the flag whilst spewing hate towards minorities, doing this for long enough will of course wrap the minorities views of the flag from statehood to racism.

This isn’t even a new phenomenon and seems more like wanting to portrait minorities as some great haters of the nations they are living in and an attempt to fuel this far right hate crowd even further.

Sounds like the mass integration of millions of people from non-Western liberal cultures is going well.

Everyone understands this.

But the notion that it’s overwhelmingly white supremacists and far right activists putting these flags up is such a bad narrative.

So many people I know, from all colours and creeds who identify with British culture, are simply sick of being told they should be ashamed and embarrassed of it all the time. There’s people in that base of people who have chosen to fly flags from their homes, businesses, etc.

There’s a majority of these individuals putting flags up who are simply trying to restore that feeling of being proud to be from this country, of our values and our culture.

Ordinary people are pushing back against this narrative, not just neo-nazi twats.

Now I personally have no desire whatsoever so run out and pop a flag up on a lamppost, but I’m certainly not judging the average person who does.

Sure, there are some idiots who are doing this purely to be divisive. Every ethnic group has those. Those people I will happily condemn. But that’s not solely what’s happening here.

What I will say, is that once again the responsibility of this issue largely falls to the British media. Both the left and the right peddle divisive narratives constantly, and it’s polarizing everything to these extreme.

To ordinary people of either stance, it begins to feel like any and all acts taken – one side or another – are deliberate attempts to intimidate or rile up the other.

A better headline would be that it’s being appropriated by racists. It’s not fair to put it on the flag rather than on those morons.