#unless they’re using them as a weapon to beat migrants with

[enbycrip]

I’ve been unfollowing any pages who published “dying for our freedom” posts about the US Veterans Day in the same way I do if pages post jingoistic crap on Armistice Day in November.

I wear a white poppy for Armistice Day every year for the victims of Imperialism and for working to end wars of Imperialism. I’ll probably pair it with a Palestine pin this year 🍉

It is genuinely important to fight the cultural drive to enforce the acceptance of imperialism. It’s not about ”respect”; it’s about normalising something that is not acceptable. It’s about drawing a veil of acceptability over young people being forced, whether legally or economically, to go and risk their lives in a country that isn’t theirs to kill kids who belong there.