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Originally Posted by NeonRainbow  I’m not paranoid. You are the ones with the persecution fear….you are the ones who are terrified and outraged that British culture is apparently under attack. I suggest that you are the ones who are paranoid.
Also Will you are talking about reading between the lines and thinking for yourself. That’s exactly what I’m doing. You are not reading between the lines or thinking for yourself at all. You are just reading the Daily Mail’s articles and swallowing them whole.
I’m sure a lot of the incidents that you read about the English flag being banned are completely true. But they are minor silly incidents that do not reflect the actions of the majority of people in Britain.
I am only thinking for myself by observing the fact that I don’t see there ever being any problems surrounding English flags being displayed. Whenever England are playing football the flags are absolutely everywhere and I have never even heard one person complain and I have lived in a ‘racially sensitive area’ in London for most of my life and I now live in Wales and no I’ve never even heard anyone complain about English flags here either.
I’m not a complete idiot and I do know that there are a few idiots about. But they are only a few. I’m always hearing that politically correct nutters are complaining about different things but then I ask myself where are all these complaining people? The only people I ever hear complaining are English white people. Where are all these complaining muslims and political correctness activists in forums like this? Why aren’t they defending themselves if they are so outraged by all this? Who are they?
Do you know any of them?
Ask yourselves. |
That's the first reasoned post I've seen you make Neon, well done for that. Now we can debate like adults for a while.
It was actually the world cup which escalated the whole issue tenfold. If you're wondering where all the PC idiots are, and why they aren't here defending themselves, it would never occur to them to debate any issue, and aren't capable of thinking in any other way then a tunnel-visioned, and simplistic manner. If racists are using the flag as a symbol, the answer is simple, ban the flag!
This is the kind of nonsense thinking that can only be dreamt up by the simple minded. The silly little desk jockeys and bureaucrats who need to justify their existence.
Now that we're both clear on the subject, I'd like to change tack a little. You see this isn't actually the main point of my post. The fact is that most people don't display the St. George's Cross outside of any world cup, or situation where national pride is at stake. It is because people have become to believe that it really is the property of the bigots and racists, and many people fear that they will be tarred with the same brush. Seeing the flag get banned in a thousand silly incidents is a symptom rather than the cause.
It's actually going to take the support of the media you so despise, to make people see our own flag in a different light. That's why I say we need to make it stand against small-mindedness, rather than facilitate it.