English people are second class citizens

[NotAnotherScarf]

Aibu To be annoyed about so many Facebook posts about celebrating st George's day being racist. No one post this for st Patrick's day, st Andrew's or st David's.... Hogmanay and burns night have parties

By celebrating being English, passing democracy to the world, Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, TV, the jet engine, the internet... railways, the industrial revolution, beer, the Beatles... All should be celebrated.

Yes we did some shite things...but white slavery (20+ million), the Holocaust, programs in Eastern Europe. King Leopold of Belgium hunting African people. The depopulation of parts of the USSR, the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia.....all things that in the last 125 years England has nothing to do with...yet people like to think that we who celebrate our Englishness are scum.

Well hang on, who is it angering?

I always wish a happy St George's Day to my Scout friends
I was a leader for many years, we can be proud
Some of the goady posts irritate me.

It's assumed because I put a picture on my social media that I paint roundabouts and burn hotels. It's tiresome

Yes plus Anglo Saxon but it is an English law agreement that for example the US used.

Different democracy (we have representative democracy) and quite a different set of people allowed to vote these days. Mostly they gave us the word, rather more than the concept. Almost all civilisations have had some form of a ruling class made up of multiple people (few empowers and dictators). We still have a ruling class, just one with a periodic nod to the proles every few years. And that popularity contest stops us doing intelligent and necessary things.

Ancient Greek democracy, most notably in Athens (c. 507–321 BCE), was a direct system where eligible citizens—freeborn men—voted directly on laws, served in councils (Boule) chosen by lot, and held trials with massive juries. It was a "rule by the people" focused on equality and direct participation, differing from modern representative democracy

Larry has ruled 10 Downing Street for 15 years! 😸

No, they aren't. There was a big celebration on Sunday.

You're referring to the minority of idiots who use St George's Day as an excuse to be racist.

TV was invented by a Scotsman.

Bore off, OP.
That poster of Nigel Farage isn’t going to lick itself.

Waaaaa waaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Gosh, I always thought Solon was the father of democracy due to his reforms in 594BC.

😳

Not sure the US is a bastion of democracy.

I’ve seen posts like this claiming they are prevented from celebrating, but no post criticising celebrating. Odd huh?

Find a roundabout and chuck some red paint on it like a chav.

Well yes but that wasn't my point.

Isn’t ‘chav’ a pejorative term?

Is this to anyone celebrating or just OP?

The Daily Mail and those who write the vile comments underneath any article about him.

Where was the big celebration? If we found talk of the ‘big celebration’ online would we find a lot of people laying into the people who attended?

Try the argument that Britain abolished the Atlantic slave trade. And because it ruled the seas at the time it stopped.

2 pubs in our town tend to have st George day party, same 2 do st Patrick's. Poor st David doesn't get anything

That paper has a right wing audience. Why are you reading it?

Maybe post a screenshot of the kind of thing you’re talking about ?

Oh no, before that information was released there were comments on facebook like "i bet its the usual suspects". Its a city where there was riots last year as some immigrants were housed in a hotel in the city centre. Since them i find theres a lot more similar comments made.
apparently its been guidelines for the police since towards end of last year as multiple people asked why.

https://www.london.gov.uk/events/st-georges-day-2026#:~:text=St%20George's%20Day%20is%20traditionally,and%20the%20Hundred%20Years'%20War.

I'm sure there are similar up and down the country.

Which town? Just being nosey!