The poppy, racist?

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The poppy, racist? What a contemptible distortion of the truth: As a prominent liberal writer calls it a 'symbol of racism', Bel Mooney, whose grandad fought at the Somme, writes of her anger...

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5033801/The-poppy-racist-horrible-distortion-truth.html#ixzz4x4vH49wY

 

[michaelmaltby]

... the decline proceeds apace. Impossible to comment openly as this is "modern" and political.

 

[pbehn]

Cultural Marxism meets virtue signalling and is promoted for clickbait articles. A writer becomes a "prominent liberal author" when he or she writes such ridiculous tosh. Elsewhere people are becoming "prominent liberals" by trying to ban Halloween outfits.

Little girls dressing up as Moana or Frozen's Elsa for Halloween is 'cultural appropriation', activist claims

 

[vikingBerserker]

Good lord.....................

 

[mikewint]

Michael said it all above. I can only quote Lucky:

 

[Gnomey]

Ridiculous...

 

[pbehn]

At every Premier League football match from last weekend until November 11th there is a wreath of poppies presented, the last post played and a minutes silence, impeccably observed by multi ethnic crowds of up to 85,000 (Wembley tomorrow). The players have poppy motifs sown into their kit and in up coming internationals between home nations and others players will have a poppy motif on their arm bands. Players are not forced to wear the motif, a few have objected because of their Irish heritage and that is their right. Despite the efforts of "intellectuals" the wearing of the red poppy is more, not less popular. They have tried to ban it, they have tried to replace it with a white one, except no poem was written about white poppies. Now they are trying to shame those who wear it by trotting out the usual "racism" mantra. The rank and file of the UK population take no notice of these yearly "intellectual" outbursts and it drives them absolutely nutz when they realise that their great efforts actually make the poppy more popular.

There was a survey conducted by like minded people a few years ago that concluded that the UK was one of the most sexist countries in the world, worse even than Saudi Arabia. I am sure they were happy with their "shock result" anyone not involved just concludes surveys mean nothing and the worth of some education is questionable.

The man who wrote the article is a journalist for a struggling publication, he wants to make news not report it, he should have studied the idioms "over egging a pudding" and "the boy who cried wolf" before writing.

 

[at6]

With everything becoming either racist or sexist, all I can say is that they have sh!t for brains.

 

[mikewint]

 

[bobbysocks]

its the land of the lotus eaters. everything is perfectly peachy keen. you can always reason things out. we just all need to come together and sing kum-by-ya or teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. the stark realization is many young men have to die so people can delude themselves and not have to look tyranny dead in the face.

 

[Greg Boeser]

the stark realization is many young men have to die so people can delude themselves and not have to look tyranny dead in the face.

Tyranny always is appealing to those who believe they will be calling the shots.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Watching this thread closely...

 

[pbehn]

Watching this thread closely...

Ive said all I have to say, and was very careful about how I said it.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Ive said all I have to say, and was very careful about how I said it.

I just see this thread going the typical way a Facebook or other social media site goes, or quite frankly how the comment section goes on your typical brainwashed slanted one way or the other news sites where people who are slanted one or the other so they can't think for themselves comment.

 

[at6]

Watching this thread closely...

Adler, I was very careful in my response. I'm trying to be [yuck] halfway nice.

 

[mikewint]

 

[fubar57]

Also remember though....right now there are 18-20 year olds in deserts that they would prefer not to be in but know they have to be there.

 

[mikewint]

There are always a few, thank God, but it seems, to this Old Fart at least that there are so many more of the other kind. I admit that back 1963 I came within inches of becoming a Can-a-dian. Vietnam was not even vaguely close to where I wanted to be and today I'm more bitter than I was then about the total waste of it. The rant is building....
Going to shut up or Chris (with good reason) will be pimp-slapping me.

 

[herman1rg]

Nothing I can say here that would be seen as political............

 

[buffnut453]

I guess I'm a racist then, 'cos I wear a poppy all year round...it's a metal pin badge and I wear it on my lanyard at work. Sadly, most of my colleagues here in Virginia think it's an apple.

I read Fisk's article and the thing that bugs me more than anything else is his tendency to expound on what people are thinking. This seems to be an increasingly common trend, particularly if we're denouncing someone who disagrees with us. Rather than listening to what they have to say and actually engaging in a discussion, people nowadays (sheesh...I must be getting old if I'm using THAT phrase) just want to resort to name-calling and making bold, defamatory statements about what that person "must be thinking". It angers me...but not as much as the way Mr Fisk, in particular, sweeps up everyone who deliberately wears a poppy as somehow being in league with the targets of his vitriol.