The long read: Over the past 20 years, the symbol of remembrance for the war dead has become increasingly ubiquitous – and a culture of poppy policing has grown with it
  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    50 minutes ago

    I’ve literally never been stopped for not wearing a poppy. People wearing them don’t say anything to me about not wearing one and I don’t say anything to them about wearing one. It’s like me commenting on someone’s jewellery. Why the fuck would I? People want to wear what they want to wear.

    Is this really such a newsworthy issue?

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    43 minutes ago

    How do you go too far with images of poppies, especially when they represent remembrance for people who died fighting nazis?

  • vzq@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Poppy mania had gone too far in the early 2000s. Now it’s just completely bonkers out of control madness.