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Hey,
Poppies do have a right wing nationalist connotation. It’s also a political symbol. Most workplaces prohibit wearing political symbols to work. The types of people that complain that they can no longer wear swastikas rings or BNP hoodies they work are the exact same people that froth at the mouth when told they can’t wear poppies.
If Muslamics can wear their symbols why can’t christian god fearing white people wear their symbols....
bazschmaz
You know that thing where you don't know someone's name and the longer you talk the more awkward it feels to ask?
So.... what the fuck are the poppies all about? I am aware of the basics references to veterans and WWI. But it also has this right wing, but not exclusively right wing, thing going on that I never quite worked out. Labour politicians wear them too right?
My current understanding is that in the 1970s (?) the pacifist left had a thing about using WWI as a prime example of the futility of war, so in the subsequent decades the poppy became a symbol of the political right, as a kind of counter-reaction to the lefties.
I may or may not have gotten that right.