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

[PicaK]

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

I'm in favour of flying the flag more to reclaim it from the racists.

It’s ‘British’, not ‘Brittish’.

I was recently reading a book about Denmark and the flag being very much embedded into day to day life came up, I thought it very interesting!

I visited Copenhagen years ago and have always meant to go back to explore the country more.

You seem to have misread my post, please try again.

So am I

I feel intimidated. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking down a street that had loads of England flags on display. Unless there's a football tournament on😅

Ain't that the truth.

Explain yourself better then

is it okay to fly the Union Jack?

Totally agree (I'm Welsh).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyj4y8vq7vo

Some more information here.

The areas in Birmingham where the flags have been put up (Northfield and Weoley Castle and the surrounding areas) are still predominantly white, working class areas.

No one here is saying otherwise.

Ho get away with you. It’s the English flag go to Wales or Scotland and they are all flying their respective flags

why should flags of other country’s be acceptable to be kept flying, but not the English flag?

Jingoism and racism are not the same thing. You seem to be conflating the two

How can you be sure that you’ll definitely hear ‘non-white views’ on an anonymous forum?

And what about hearing the views of people who are white and not born here, but are naturalised Britons - or those who are white and were born here but their parents were not born here?

So it is okay to put up Palestine flags or Ukraine flags but not the English flag? Seriously, wtf! It’s not racism, it’s living in England, or UK, it’s being patriotic.

Norwegian, Danish and US flags are nothing like nazi flags. The far right are strongly associated with the British and English flags. Maybe there needs to be a campaign to reclaim the flags.

"non-white" views. Bit racist that. How do you know what colour we are anyway?

She said the flags had "brought so much joy to the community", adding: "Everybody's buzzing, everybody's really happy seeing the flags, everybody's talking about it."

Strange. Don't these people have anything else going on in their lives?

Turkish?! The Turks didn't make it to Anatolia for another thousand or so years after St George

Yes reclaim the flags.

I am not that bothered but I guess I do somewhat associate St George's flag with the far right.

I think the issue in Birmingham is that the England/UK flags are being put up in largely white areas and the council are removing them (from lamp posts etc), but Palestine flags are not being as readily removed from lamp posts in largely Asian/Muslim areas because police presence is also needed to achieve this. The police bit was in a statement from the council who own all lamp posts, street furniture etc.
So there's a perception of unfairness.

The English flag isn't like a nazi flag either....!

Some of the far right may like to fly it... but that doesn't mean it's the only purpose of it, nor the only way people perceive it when they see it.

It's our national flag - that you see it flying and think it's got nazi connotations is really quite bleak. There needs to be an urgent campaign to reclaim it if that is the case.

Not too difficult.