Look dude you can CHOOSE to identify with the flag, but it doesn’t definitionally represent you or the population. I don’t identify with “my” flag, because it’s the flag of a white supremacist, settler colonial state. I’m not offended by anyone burning it. If I lived in a country whose ideals I shared I might be bothered, because someone is violently rejecting those things I personally feel are good. You acknowledge the German state is complicit in ongoing genocide, so… Why do you feel this affiliation with it? Do you think genocide is good? If not, why not reject the flag and the things it stands for?
Just hate how people feel no need to interrogate their affiliations, y’know? I was a pretty hardcore “Labor party” liberal in my younger years, visited china during that time and was really morally conflicted about it, so coming to a new understanding where I recognise that in fact china is about as good as a state of that size can be in the current world order - especially as someone from Australia, which is both a settler colonial and imperial core nation - took some work. But it’s so worth it, and once you start seeing the cracks how can you not ask questions?
Look dude you can CHOOSE to identify with the flag, but it doesn’t definitionally represent you or the population. I don’t identify with “my” flag, because it’s the flag of a white supremacist, settler colonial state. I’m not offended by anyone burning it. If I lived in a country whose ideals I shared I might be bothered, because someone is violently rejecting those things I personally feel are good. You acknowledge the German state is complicit in ongoing genocide, so… Why do you feel this affiliation with it? Do you think genocide is good? If not, why not reject the flag and the things it stands for?
Just hate how people feel no need to interrogate their affiliations, y’know? I was a pretty hardcore “Labor party” liberal in my younger years, visited china during that time and was really morally conflicted about it, so coming to a new understanding where I recognise that in fact china is about as good as a state of that size can be in the current world order - especially as someone from Australia, which is both a settler colonial and imperial core nation - took some work. But it’s so worth it, and once you start seeing the cracks how can you not ask questions?