To ask those who are not white brittish how they feel about the flags?

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Birmingham and Tower Hamlets are having St George England flags put up by privately funded groups.
I'm horrified by the implicit racism. I've seen a lot of white people applauding this and "time we took back the country" comments.
I haven't seen many non white people commenting. My feel is that they are too intimidated to do so. Am I right? Or is it indifference or is it that you're dealing with racism on a daily level and this is just one more thing.
Please don't post if you're white.whatever you feel about the flags. I want to hear on white viewd

It's the prevalence of use of the flag by far-right xenophobes at this and similar demonstrations that has tainted it for me, I'm afraid.

When I see the flag in a garden, on a car or in a window now, my first thought is "Are they racist cunts?", followed by "Or is there some football tournament going on?" I felt the same about the Union Jack for years, after seeing the massed ranks of National Front supporters carrying the flag at a march in Lewisham in the 70s.

St George’s mum was born in Palestine and he was born in modern day Turkey. Cry about it.

Quite fascinating to see the ahistorical takes on why a certain cohort hates the English flag so much.

It is if I want it to be 🥰

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Signalling virtues is way more important than standing up and being counted. Not all of us are so weak, that we cave into emotional guilt tripping. It happens a lot, on here.

😆Me too! Yes it does end up rather mangled - my closest attempt as a child was a kind of cross between a dog and a lizard! 😂

I'm sorry you don't feel part of the country, I'm white British and I don't want anyone feeling un-welcome who lives here, regardless of their heritage.

Take faith from the fact that Britain isn't traditionally very good at racism, most people just want to get on and lead peaceful lives, we have a long roll call of fascist "movements" from Mosleys brown shirts, through the National Front, BNP etc. None, thank god, has ever got any real traction, because most brits just aren't that way inclined.

Then he was of jewish origin (as was Jesus) and many of the early christians because Palestine was inhabited by Jews then. Does that make the flag more or less suspect to you lot? You are so incoherent that one can hardly tell.

I do instinctively think of it as the flag of St George, it flies on our St G's church in the village and no-one seemed to object to it at the Euros.

Ok Mira 🤥 also remember I already said, I have no issue with the flag or any flag. I just find it funny.

The irony. There were many protest marches at the very beginning of this happening in Oct 2023, prior to the current situation in Gaza. Whereby protestors were intimidating Jews on the streets of London, with anti Semitic attacks regularly taking place. The displaying of the Palestinian flag in a threatening way goes way back.

Miraxx if you will. Mira isnt my name by any stretch. You wouldn't like me calling you other would you?

Because it's 'right on' to deride anything English, personally I loathe seeing the Palestinian flag that seems to be obligatory for some people with little understanding.

Where's the Bollocks button?

Amazed at how it's only the English that are racist. Welsh, Scots and Irish flags don't pose a threat? Who'd have thought that the world's population of racists live in England. No wonder we are so overcrowded. The irony is, of course, is that there's a lot of judging going on, here. So easy to bash the white English man or woman.

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I literally couldn’t give two shits if you call me other.

I’m only concerned with your complete and utter lack of history and the boldness of your claims considering how wrong you are 😅

Are you naive enough to think it's not going to happen? We're practically there. Reform candidates in Doncaster posted extreme right wing memes, neo-Nazi material and Hitler quotes. So have candidates from Sussex and Richmond.

So you're being judgemental and prejudiced about people you don't even know. Hmmm...

Wondered when we would get round to Reform 🥱

The persecution and degradation of Palestinian lives goes back much further I can assure you.

Once again, there is a dedicated Conflict in the ME board.

I think you would do well to read a book other than the prescribed religious texts. Do look up when the the name Palestine was imposed and by whom. Do check when and where St George lived. Turkey was not a country that existed then.

I am happy to wave the Welsh flag and the Union Jack (Scottish one too from time to time). I think it is sad that it is controversial to fly the English flag in, checks notes, England!?!

I find it much more offensive offensive to see terrorist flags (hamass hezbollah) at the weekly hate marches