Arsenal's Katie McCabe (centre) applauds fans after last Sunday's Super League match against Leicester City at The King Power Stadium. McCabe chose not to wear the poppy on her jersey. Photograph: Alex Burstow/Arsenal FC via Getty Images
According to Laura Clouting, the first World War curator at the Imperial War Museum in London, there have been paradigm shifts regarding the wearing of the poppy.
“It has now come to symbolise the sacrifice and effort of the armed forces in more recent conflicts,” says Clouting in a video on the museum’s website.
“But because these more recent conflicts have become more complex and perhaps morally ambiguous . . . the poppy has become a more contentious symbol.”
Clouting refers to the red poppy (as opposed to a white poppy used to promote peace) “being appropriated by far-right organisations” and notes that those wh
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