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Originally Posted by garinda
...and four years on I still totally disagree with your point of view, that if you see a flag, Union or English, outside of a football tournament, that has fascist connotations.
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I never said that - I said that if the Union Flag was flying on a house outside a sports event, then it would probably be there for a reason. Yes there will be exceptions, and yes of course there are people who are patriotic but not BNP - I'm one of them - but I wouldn't fly a flag outside of a sporting occasion, just as most people wouldn't.
And perhaps it is wrong to make assumptions or stereotype people but we're all guilty of that - don't they say that a person has a job within 3minutes of the interview because that's how quickly we take to decide.
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Originally Posted by garinda
Just as the best criminals never get caught, most right-wing extremists aren't skinheads, wearing Docs, and waving the Union Jack.
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Not arguing with you on this point. Nick Griffin always wears a suit. And the flip side of that is that I'm married to a skinhead and he's one of the gentlest and most liberal people I've ever met.
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Originally Posted by garinda
You see many more Union Jacks at Proms in the Parks concerts, than you do at any extremist rallies nowadays.
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This is completely taking my comments the wrong way because all of these things - Geri Halliwell, town halls, sports event, proms etc are using the flags in context and I never once said that was racist.
In six months time when all the World Cup brewhaha has died down and we're losing at cricket and rugby again, I'll take you round a couple of houses, we'll find some reason to knock on the doors and we'll see what your impression of the residents is. Remember, I knocked on those doors four years ago.