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So which part makes it flying the English to make immigrants feel unwelcome...where does that come into it?
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What's currently happening with the raising of the colours is happening in
conjunction with and alongside anti-migrant rhetoric.
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The organisers of raising the flags, have stated it's a protest against the government's attack on free speech
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The man who was a member of the EDL, is linked with Britain First and was jailed for affray due to his part in a race-related killing? Sorry if I don't believe him when he says it's not about immigration. Question is, why do
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...whilst saying the waving of any other nations flag is not done to make anyone feel unwelcome..
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I didn't say that. The intention behind waving any national flag decides whether it's done to hurt or for patriotic reasons. It's not the action, but the reasoning. If someone hangs a bunch of Palestinian flags outside of a Synagogue that is hateful and wrong because it's done to intimidate.
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And what about the members of the public taking them down, what does that make them? Unpatriotic?
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I would say in the current climate, it's a counter protest against the intentions behind many people putting them up. In any normal situation, when it's not linked with a far-right racist criminal, or not linked with anti-immigration messaging, or not hung outside mosques to intimidate, that, yes, the pulling down of a national flag flown for patriotic reasons is unpatriotic and hateful.
Sorry if the nuance behind this subject is confusing you.