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The best way I can explain it is to compare burning the American flag to insulting the Brittish crown to a bunch of Royal Marines.
I have read several articles about people wondering if the english flag can be "reclaimed" from the far right, as if just by being used by the far right, has become forever tainted.I was in Canada for 3 weeks last year. Yeah, there were a few I noticed. But not to the extent that I'd seen in the US. And Union flags in the UK? In my thirty years there I really can't recall seeing a private residence flying it. That said, there seems to have been quite a recent upsurge in flag hoisting:
The questions about St George's and union jack flags lining English streets
With St George's and union jack flags appearing on many lampposts, we visit the epicentre of the phenomenon to find out why.www.bbc.com
'"Operation Raise the Colours" is also the name of another group that has encouraged people to put up flags and is alleged to have accepted a donation from the far-right organisation Britain First, The Times reported. According to the research group Hope Not Hate, Operation Raise the Colours was co-founded by Andrew Currien, otherwise known as Andy Saxon, who has allegedly had links with the English Defence League and Britain First. The group denies it is a far-right organisation.'
Both groups are most definitely far right. So quite a few people are concerned about what the flags are representing.
Every country has things they can be proud of, in many cases moreso than Americans… Lee Greenwood and is ridiculous song is not one of them.
It’s not that we are worried about negative connotations and political correctness… It’s that when something becomes a thing used by racists to be racists, we don’t want to be lumped in with the racists.
And Americans have things they can be proud of, in many cases more so than EVERY OTHER COUNTRY. America is the only country who can say that.
And people in pretty much every other country have things they are proud of.
First, you said "in many cases" which does not mean "in every case."
People in a number of countries would say, "No."
Not wanting to engage in behavior associated with racists isn’t political correctness. It’s hating racists and having a moral code that means I don’t do things that emulate them.
Every other country in the world has something that they can be proud of in a way more than an American can. Saying otherwise is just blind nationalism to the exclusion of reality. Even Trump admits America isn’t the greatest.
If not wanting to be associated with racists puts me on the sideline with racists, that’s fine.
How some do so, yes, but that wasn’t what I was thinking of as an example. I don’t think ICE using American flags is an automatic display of racism.
And? Your point? I am not suggesting that in EVERY case, America had reasons to be proud more so that every other country. But in many cases, they can. Where is the confusion. Last I checked, America is still the only country to have walked on the moon.
So please give us an example of what you are talking about.
"We are not going to the moon because it is easy, but because it is hard." JFK
I think not engaging with racist behavior isn’t really an optics thing but a “I don’t want to be associated with racists” thing.
