La bandiera dell’Inghilterra è diventata un simbolo razzista, dicono gli adulti delle minoranze etniche

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.

Suggest you move back to where your national flag doesn’t upset you then.

Hijacked like the Eurasia and Asia svastika

Using the St. George’s Cross instead of the Union Jack has been a dogwhistle for a very long time. 

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.

Flag in a football stadium? Go for it.

A National flag used as a dog whistle for a specific political party’s rhetoric? Racist.

It’s the reason why I’d say the military honouring the flag is valid (choice), but I’d hate the idea of daily flag honouring in schools.

Meh. Flags are just like every other symbol, their meaning depends on their use.

England does not have a flag displaying culture compared to somewhere like the USA. Because of this the meaning of flag displaying, even though it is the national flag, can change quite easily. At the moment it has very much been adopted by the anti-immigration politic.

The upcoming Football world cup will put an end to that however.

The way to stop the national flag being usurped by causes is to adopt a national culture of flag displaying. It removes the ability for a cause to use the flag as a symbol.

It’s the same in Czech and I’d imagine a lot of other countries.

Czech people only ever cared about the flag when it came to sporting events, until people started hanging Ukrainian flags in 2022.

Now when someone hangs a Czech flag you know who they are and what they’re about.

Dumb dumb dumb. If the 3/4 of the home countries take pride in their flags, so should the English. The English is a thing you know, like a separate people. No need to cancel them for oversensitive people

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.

Oh boy, what a time to be alive

So what’s their solution? Replacing it with a crescent moon for inclusivity’s sake? 🙄

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.

The news media or politicians never mention the failure of direct democratic engagement in Mass Migration Policy over 30 years however and thus a CONSENSUS on:

* Total per annum

* Selection Criteria

* Overall Rate Flow eg per needed area priority

* Agreement between the people and the state via democracy on this policy

Instead in the Noughties,

* Little Englanders vs Global Multiculturalism aka “Cool Britannia” rebranding

Instead of political engagement there was executive directive.

Now let’s imagine the above had been done, do we think anyone would feel they had been disenfranchised by the state to the point of flag flying which remember is the first most serious people movement of widely visible protest against the above for 30 years or so?

So why did the State not choose democracy?

A couple of reasons:

* Population growth

* Sovereign Debt

In tandem with Global Agreements on Migration Flows above Nation level.

If we looked at a graph of total immigration since 1995-2025 and we had a nationwide poll on controlling migration numbers in this period, in reference to those numbers I am sure the public would majority be in favour of being franchised in this decision on this policy and voting for a regulated reduced flow…

And the result would be more positive in consideration of migration and migrants because of the agreed system with clear benefits freely and democratically included.

England flag is not halal.

Reform is out in force today I see
What utter whinging all around in this comments section

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

One the one hand, yes racists do tend to rally around national symbols.

On the other hand, so what? Sorry if you don’t like seeing it, but that’s no reason to take any action with regards to the flag itself. It’s our national flag, and it’s a source of pride and historical importance for our country (as with any country). So there’s not much we can do as a do with aside from continue to reject racist assholes and their views through our own actions.