White Cockade

[Ancienne Alliance]

It's one thing to say: The cockade is a political and religious symbol; period.
This is info. Fair enough. And it's a whole other story to gives one's personnal comments and feelings about it...
So we should not "discuss the white cockade". Just give neutral encyclopedic information.
Otherwise it can very quickly degenerate into a heated debate . I'm sure this is obvious and very clear. There are many other places for this on the Internet. Not here, gentlemen.

Thank you,


Best,

Robert

[Calico]

I'd like to expand on my previous post and say that until this thread I had never heard of a white cockade having significance of any kind.

I doubt if one in 10,000 are aware of it in Europe, the Americas and NZ/Australia. Far fewer anywhere else.

It is silly to say it is a political or religious symbol to anyone other than those few who recognize it as such.

[macwilkin]

I'd like to expand on my previous post and say that until this thread I had never heard of a white cockade having significance of any kind.

I doubt if one in 10,000 are aware of it in Europe, the Americas and NZ/Australia. Far fewer anywhere else.

It is silly to say it is a political or religious symbol to anyone other than those few who recognize it as such.

So it's use as a symbol in a historic period is "silly", and we historians are "silly" for even mentioning it? Sorry, but as an educator, I respectfully disagree.

T.

[Calico]

My apologies, I did not like to use the word "silly" but could not think of the more appropriate term, which I have decided is "presumptuous".

Historical accuracy if fine. Thinking it means anything to anyone other than fellow historians is ... not reasonable.

Better?

[macwilkin]

Post deleted. Pointless to argue...