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I'm not offended by it. As I said earlier, it's a cool design. I am aware of its history though. And of its current use. Was it a Japanese fisherman waving it at the match the other day after a good haul of mackerel? Or a mother celebrating the birth of a child, perhaps?

I'm not saying we need to ban them. I'm sure if the flag wavers knew they were at risk of offending millions of foreign viewers, and alienating a part of our global fanbase, they'd opt for an alternative. That's not westerners being arbiters of what's right and wrong. It's just one man with a...

The fact is South Korea and a few other Asian nations associate the flag in question with Japan's imperial atrocities. This isn't controversy that's been consigned to history. There was a big debate around it in the lead up to the Tokyo Olympics. Obviously, it's not offensive to many over here...

It's not the wokey wokes who are offended. It's the people whose families were oppressed, enslaved and slaughtered under the banner of that flag. Their dislike for it isn't hard to understand. What you may find is that the wokey wokes are able to engage their brain and acknowledge the flag in...

It's difficult to gauge.

Obviously, you're quite passionate about this but it might be better to calm down a bit. Yes, Koreans did have a reputation for being particularly brutal prison guards during the war and a fair number were convicted of war crimes. It's still a bit hyperbolic to claim they committed "many of...

Brighton never invaded Nanking.

I can see why you got exiled.

You need to stop making jokes based on racial stereotypes.

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