Has anyone else noticed the increase in ( extreme ) right wing postings on FB?

so a symbol appropriated and used by right wing racists groups is easily distinguished from exactly the same symbol being used by people not in those groups?
wow, that's some clever stuff if you can do it!

 

haha, please to hear it because that would make you an extremist and probably a lunatic! but surely you can see that a symbol used for hate will be frightening for those it's been used against as they won't readily know the intention behind it?

if i'd had my head kicked in/ verbally abused by a group regularly doing the same in the village wearing bristol rugby shirts, i would be very weary of seeing those shirts anywhere - association.

 

Maybe looking at the people might provide a clue?

 

we do. but as it's 'your' flag why not wrestle it back off them? if i felt that someone had misappropriated a symbol i'm proud of, i'd be well *******ed off!

and (this is kind of a response to may others) I don't hold any flags or symbols of nationalism dear or otherwise. I happened to have been born on this island, pure chance. I played no part in that and make no claim to its achievements or otherwise. I could have easily being born under any number of flags, and still would make no claim of pride or otherwise. I was just the sperm that got through.

 

I see myself as English , the cross of st George is the flag of my country, I support my team in the World Cup and wave our flag if you don’t like it stick it in your pipe and smoke it

 

i agree, i think mostly people are.... but the rise of the right throughout the world is worrying and as it rises more people feel validated in their bigotry and that's what we're seeing now, hence your post, no?

 

difficult if hanging from houses/cars etc.... and i don't think they all look like skinheads or football casuals anymore, do they?

 

And I don’t fly the union flag because
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland weren’t good enough to qualify for the World Cup

 

y'see, i find 'my country' quite an alien phrase and one i don't think i've ever used. not saying it's right or wrong, i have just never felt such ownership. so the whole thing, including flags, has always fascinated me.

 

and now i'm wondering if i'm missing out on the whole 'flag thing'.... i have lots of flowery bunting but think ermintrude towers may need a flag

maybe me riding a unicorn over a rainbow? it shall become an international symbol of flags

 

It’s nice that we can agree to disagree

 

did we agree or disagree... i'm a bit lost now. i'm too busy wondering if i need a flag

 

If people ask me what my nationality is I always reply that I’m English