Context: the Thin Blue Line is symbolism for the role of police in maintaining public order. It has been co-opted by the alt-right. There is also a Thin Red Line to represent nurses. The French Wikipedia happened to use it in a legend to explain what the red lines on a map mean.
Thin blue line was not co-opted by the alt right, it’s just straight up fascist and always has been.
Can you explain more? I don’t see how this is any more than using a regular red line to indicate something on a map. Since I don’t speak French, I don’t know what it’s indicating, but I don’t see anything to do with cops or nurses here.
The page itself is just a map with a legend that says that the red lines on the map are roman roads.
Except if you look at the legend, and click on the image for the red line, that white rectangle with a red line links to a file that is named “thin red line for nurses flag.”
It’s just a coincidence / lack of attention / someone picked a random image that looked good enough for a map legend.
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Hmm, what wording would you suggest so that it doesn’t have that connotation?
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Done, thanks!
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They have used a file named “Thin Red Line for Nurses Flag” as the key for the red line on the map. If you click on the red line in the legend, it will take you to that file.
I thought red was for firefighters?
Me too, but that’s a thin red line in an American flag whereas this is a horizontal red line on a white background. It looks kinda like the English flag with no vertical red line. All I know is firefighters and nurses are pretty cool
Thanks for that context. Here I was thinking it was the British trying to pull some redcoat shit again.
