How do you feel about the burning of the American flag?

[Canpinter]

i think its a perfectly valid form of protest but a bit overused. Its something that can be very effective if used sparingly but is played to early or to often for trivial things and thus has alot of its shock value reduced.

[cuafpr]

pretty much fuck anyone that does it, and if i see it will save the flag regardless if it lands me in jail doing so or not.

[muto]

If they want to make idiots of themselves they can feel free to do so.

[Cosmic Janitor]

It's a dumb thing to do (for any flag), but I'm not particularly offended by it either (for any flag) and think being offended about is even dumber.

[nanook12]

The American flag does not stand for 1/100 of what it used to stand for. Anymore I view the flag as just a representation of corruption and greed, so fuck the flag at the current moment. Until it my government and political officials give a shit about me why should I give a shit about their flag?

[Cosmic Janitor]

I imagine a lot of people will be burning it these days because the flag is one of those symbols of radical nationalism, overused by zealotous extremists who represent intolerance, bigotry, regressivism and hatred.

Hmm, now I want to burn all the UN flags, an LGBT one and an Anita Sarkeesian effigy holding all major religious scriptures. I'm going to need a bigger pyre.

[Mistame]

It is protected by the First Amendment so whatever. But that cunt on the megaphone needs a fucking history lesson.

[THE Bigzoman]

OP asked how we felt about it. He didn't ask for the pointdexter legality portion.


That said, I don't care much for it. I couldn't care less. I think it's a lazy way to show grievance, given the fact that most people that I see doing it can't articulate their grievances clearly.

[zoefschildpad]

Seems to me the American thing to do is laud it as good for the flag-production industry.

[vindicatorx]

I'm indifferent honestly people want to be assholes that is fine

[Allerius]

The people burning flags are degenerates with no respect for the nation they are privileged to reside in. They should be stripped of their citizenship and shipped off to some island in the middle of the ocean to form their own society. I'm sure they will do much better than what western civilization has accomplished.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Hmm, now I want to burn all the UN flags, an LGBT one and an Anita Sarkeesian effigy holding all major religious scriptures. I'm going to need a bigger pyre.

Do what you want. I support free speech.

I'm just saying that people are burning the American flag not because they hate the US, but because a large part of the US that waves the flag around hates them.

[Tijuana]

How do you feel about people who burn the american flag?

What a waste of free speech to say something so ugly.

[Derpleton]

If you hate it so much then please leave the country.

[Kithelle]

It should be deemed as legally and irrevocably renouncing their US citizenship, but they should be allowed to do it.

This pretty much...you want to burn it then be willing to pay the price.

[Mormolyce]

If someone is burning a flag, they're telling you how they feel about the country or organisation it represents. If that makes you feel bad, well it's probably supposed to.

Flags are really just silly pageantry, a relic of centuries-old nationalism.

are you sure? i thought burning the flag was illegal

It's been repeatedly defended by the Supreme Court as a legitimate exercise of the First Amendment, and all attempts to jam a flag desecration act into the Constitution have been voted down.

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It should be deemed as legally and irrevocably renouncing their US citizenship, but they should be allowed to do it.

If you hate it so much then please leave the country.

They're disrespecting a piece of cloth with a drawing on it. You're disrespecting the First Amendment. I think you guys should be the ones on the boat out of America, since you are only interested in its symbols, and not what they stand for.

[Elim Garak]

Are there even American flags not Made in China anyway?

[Deleted]

Piece of cloth. And for the record, I feel the same way about burning any flag. Ritualized act that only has significance due to flag's past importance, both sides of any incident filled with equally flawed human beings - its stupid to burn things for no reason and its stupid to overreact because of a burning piece of cloth.

[Hooked]

No one mentioned she called the white guy a Nazi and the black guy an uncle tom, multiple times. I mean blatant racism on a megaphone and no one says shit about it at that campus. I would have took that bullhorn away and turned her into a foghorn.

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Piece of cloth. And for the record, I feel the same way about burning any flag. Ritualized act that only has significance due to flag's past importance, both sides of any incident filled with equally flawed human beings - its stupid to burn things for no reason and its stupid to overreact because of a burning piece of cloth.

How about burning a giant cross is that ok also?. Assuming that the cross burners purchased the cross and own it of course.

[Derpleton]

They're disrespecting a piece of cloth with a drawing on it. You're disrespecting the First Amendment. I think you guys should be the ones on the boat out of America, since you are only interested in its symbols, and not what they stand for.

Do explain how I'm "disrespecting the first amendment" when I'm not demanding these people be arrested, fined etc. for that very reason. I simply think that if a person hates the country so much then they should go find a better place to live since we're clearly so horrible in their view.