If the sight of a country's flag, or the sound of its anthem, offends you, and you are in that country, well, that's a damn shame. But it's in pretty bad taste to disrespect it anyway, never mind trying to get it banned on its home soil, which really ought to be in the realm of "unthinkable."
I see people on one side saying to them the flag means freedom and honor, and on another saying it represents slavery and genocide. For me it's always meant that all of us, no matter if we were born in the frozen tundra or plains or swamp, color, gender, creed, whatever, no matter what differences we may have with each other we can at least all share one thing in common. That intangible idea, the glue that binds us, is being willfully, deliberately erased, and that is what really gets me angry.
There is a financially vested interest in saving it, that's why the government created the fucking park that you want to get rid of. The people did exactly what you are saying, but since you are an anti-government extremist, you only believe it should be protected if it can be monetized to generate a profit, which is very different.
Have you honestly never heard of a crisis of the commons?
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It's OK to be offensive to anyone. it is not okay to disrupt school grounds.
This country is turning into a shit day by day with everyone being offended by everything and needing "safe space" bullshit. If you don't like it LEAVE.
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I agree, if you don't like the school's rules, don't attend the football game. That's what you meant, right?
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Open to the public and a public forum are not the same thing, although I'm willing to bet you don't even understand the distinction. Supermarkets are open to the public, but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want in there. School grounds are very rarely considered legally to be a public forum. They are considered public in the same way that the White House is public.
That's hilarious, we could turn the games into one big flag waving contest. Maybe every contingent could march with their flag during half time or before the game.
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I agree. How crazy is our country that you can't even fly our own flag in our own country? That doesn't even make any sense.
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The flag is just a symbol of the values the country. If you can't understand symbolism (and the power of symbolism), you might want to go back to middle school english class.
I remember when I played hockey for a Catholic high school. One of our rivals always took the opportunity during our games against one another to display any and all anti-Catholic/pro-Protestant signs and symbols they could manage in an effort to taunt us. So our fans would bring in a bunch of pro-Catholic/anti-Protestant signs. This wound up causing huge conflict among the parents of both schools, but nothing was ever done (partially because of the neutral venue).
So it all became a big religious shitshow, when absolutely none of the kids involved gave a damn one way or another (only 20% of our school body were practicing Catholics, and the other school was a public school). So I know damn well what these kids were doing. Of course, the little shits did it because to stop them you'd have to "ban the American flag" so their principal could get in deep shit if they actually stood up to them. And of course, stupid people and gullible media outlets were more than happy to oblige.
Last edited by Nekosom; 2016-08-30 at 12:48 AM.