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Fly The Union Flag
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I’m fed up with people knocking this great country of ours so in the spirit of patriotism I reckon it’s time to fly the flag on all public buildings, schools included, and anywhere else people would like to fly it. I’m searching for a flag pole and someone to install it in my garden as I type. What say you?
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// What I do object to is being told by people in this country not to fly the country's flag on the utterly spurious grounds that it is 'racist'. //
Sadly, the Union Jack was co-opted by racists in the past. I don't see that it is racist in itself, because as far as I'm concerned racism is a thing that only people are capable of, rather than objects. Sometimes a particular object or symbol has an unambiguously racist history, but even then it's the history of how humans used it, and not the symbol, that matters.
I have no intention, anyway, of discouraging patriotism. What would worry me is if it became compulsory -- which, in any case, is to destroy the meaning. How people express their patriotism, and for that matter even whether people are patriotic, is and should remain a matter of choice.
Sadly, the Union Jack was co-opted by racists in the past. I don't see that it is racist in itself, because as far as I'm concerned racism is a thing that only people are capable of, rather than objects. Sometimes a particular object or symbol has an unambiguously racist history, but even then it's the history of how humans used it, and not the symbol, that matters.
I have no intention, anyway, of discouraging patriotism. What would worry me is if it became compulsory -- which, in any case, is to destroy the meaning. How people express their patriotism, and for that matter even whether people are patriotic, is and should remain a matter of choice.