🧩 BND Motif Index · M1812
Hijacked symbol
A shared symbol, a remembrance flower, the flag, an anthem, is said to have been taken over by one camp and its meaning turned to theirs, nationalism, militarism, a party's cause, until those who used to wear it stop, not wanting to be counted with them.
📜 Plots🗂️ Faith and the sacred
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Hijacked cause
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Reform and the flag raisers have put me off wearing a poppy which I grew up believing was non political and anti war” “turned into a symbol glorifying war”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-09 “The poppy has been debased into a symbol of nationalism, militarism, and jingoism.”
M1812 · first seen 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works