Tootfinder

People are disrespecting the flag of Saint George by spraying it on roads and graffitiing it on houses and plastering cheap tacky ones on lampposts.
The prime minister was on the radio asked about flags. He's always been a flag-shagger. He said he's very proud of the flag.
Proud of a flag?
What does this even mean? How can you be proud of a pattern on a cloth that you didn't even design or print yourself?
Proud of your badges? What? It isn't even one you picked, it's one you were born under.
We don't need no stinking badges.
It's because people mistake the symbol for the thing it symbolizes. They think in magic. The flag isn't just a symbol with a referent, it IS the country. They feel attachment and pride to the symbol, because they feel attachment and pride for the country.
In England you can choose between two flags:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The flag of the crusades, when marauding Christians fought across Europe to murder Muslims.
🇬🇧 The flag of the empire, when the island's nobility violently enslaved and pillaged a third of the world.
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And people say they are proud of the flag, mistaking the symbol for those acts which they symbolize. Proud of this?
The people who paint roundabouts claim to think they are being patriotic somehow, but painting the flag of the crusades on a mosque isn't patriotic. It's just aggressive and deliberately threatening.
These people aren't my people.
Think the country needs a new flag really. Maybe something with more rainbow in it. 🏳️‍🌈
#ukpol #flags

Here are my flags:



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I'm not proud of them. I didn't make them. But if I must wear a stinking badge I'd wear those over badges representing state and war and enslavement and murder.