Cultural assisted suicide

In the London suburb of Barking, firemen have been ordered not to fly the cross of St. George - England's national flag - during the World Cup for fear that minorities and immigrants may be offended. As often with cases like this, it's not actual minorities who've complained (the local mosque secretary calls the ban "oversensitive"), but white leftists imposing their guilt-mongering on everyone else.

Scott Burgess asks, "can you think of any other nation in the entire world in which a display of the national flag would be prohibited for fear of causing offence?" Well, I've read about schools in the Netherlands which have banned Dutch flag patches from students' backpacks for similar reasons. And I'm sure we'll be reading about stories like this in America before too long.

Barking and Dagenham is where the racist British National Party won 11 seats on the local council last week. I'm not sure that's a coincidence.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at May 8, 2006 04:31 PM