Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day agoThat’s the thing with symbols.
In some neighborhoods, you can’t wear anything red [or blue] because those are the colors of the local gangs.
Back in the day, a lot of businesses had names like “Kooper’s Kustom Kreations” to let folks know who ran the place.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
St George’s cross has always been generally seen as a flag of St George. Georgia uses a similar one and there have been other depictions of the Agnus Dei where it’s used as a “Victory” flag. If Kooper’s Kustom Kreations predated the KKK, it would also make sense. I doubt in this context that it did.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
In England if there isn’t a national sporting event on and there is a st George’s crosshanging in your window there is a much better chance it means your primary hobby is skulling pints and harassing brown people at the pub with your mates than it meaning you’re just a huge fan of English heritage.
The UK has a flag that encompasses all the nations of the UK and hasn’t been co-opted as a hate symbol, the union flag. If you were wanting to show national pride just for the sake of it, it’s likely you’d fly that.
Yes. None of these are hard and fast rules, no, not everyone flying a st George’s cross is a nazi.
But maybe take it from the multiple people in this thread who live in England telling you what we all know this symbol to mean in certain contexts instead of trying to play some academic game
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Maybe the English should all fly it then and take it back. Just like the other three countries in the UK where I hear flying your flag is normal.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Maybe so? What’s your point though.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day ago
I posted the comment before reading all the way through the thread.
You’re deliberately misunderstanding the situation.
Be better than that.