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Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips
I bet you that parent who complained about your flag would soon complain more if they saw someone burning it. Nowadays its all "We cant be overly British, it'll offend the Muslims!"
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hehe the irony of the situation was several of the other students had the following flags on prominent display in their windows and nobody said
anything:
Japanese Rising sun
Germany
The Soviet Union
Argentina
Can you spot the similarity with what some might consider the 'subtext' to these symbols of national identity?
Hypocrisy is something I became so much more aware of to the extent that I realised that there is not one corner of my life and interaction with others that it does not permeate in one form or another.
I'd bet the shirt off my back that the parent who complained was a white, middle class lefty do gooder. So seeing someone burning the union jack would most likely elicit little response. That was 15 years ago and I don't believe anything has changed for the better in this respect.