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Comment by wartywhoa23

18 hours ago

It is universal. The flag, the state, the man. Details don't matter.

In the context of UK politics, and given Banksy's previous socio-political work, this statue is probably a response to 'the nationalists': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Raise_the_Colours

  • Which are not very nationalists nowadays. Its mostly "we want to keep western values and culture".. which now is high treason i guess..

    • It's mostly about dismissing most of modern Western culture as "woke nonsense" whilst demonstrating fealty to the idea of it by showing they hate foreign cultures even more...