• Flax
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    How are poppies radical on Facebook?

    • @Fluke@lemm.ee
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      Because the wearing of poppies has become synonymous with the now defunct BNP and the rest of the British right wing for a lot of us.

      You can thank Stephen Yaxley-Lennon for that.

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        That’s a bit silly. The symbol has existed as one of remembrance for over 100 years. We shouldn’t let fascists take claim of it

        Although I take this to mean that the ‘poppy pages’ are actually fronts for bigotry?

        • @Fluke@lemm.ee
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          Correct.

          They are where you’ll find the deeply ignorant, xenophobic, Daily Mail readers frothing at the mouth and red in the face with anger over how “forriners” are lazy criminals that come here to claim benefits for them and their 16 kids, while simultaneously stealing all the jobs and homes from “hard working British families” (read: “British benefit claimants out of work and living in grothole housing owned by a local slumlord”).

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          Of course it’s silly.

          It’s also silly that people get upset at a bunch of Asian countries who still use the swastika. But a lot of people outside the cultures instantly think of Nazis.

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            225 days ago

            We shouldn’t be getting upset at swastikas being used within their asian context.