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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBumper sticker I saw today: "If you're gonna burn our flag, wrap yourself
in it first". On a Tennessee plate, hadn't seen anything like that around these parts before.
Just made the traffic even more annoying being stuck behind that thing. That was their only bumper sticker, so kind of telling that's the only thing that inspires passions enough to drive around expressing their big gripe. Never mind what atrocities might have inspired any flag burnings in the first place.
Not that I'm big on burning anything, but the sentiment just stuck in my craw for some reason and wanted to share my distaste with the more enlightened people here.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)It upsets me too.
freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)creeped me out that someone would be so proud of feeling like that
Squinch
(50,949 posts)those who are typically on opposite ends of the aisle from anyone who would burn a flag.
Second of all, the hysteria over flag burnings that has gone on for the last 4 decades is amazingly persistent in light of the miniscule number of actual flag burnings that have happened. (I've never seen it. I've never heard of it happening anywhere near where I live, which is one of the more liberal corners of the country. I've never even heard of it happening anywhere else within the country. The only American flag burnings I can remember being aware of were in Middle Eastern countries during wars.)
The dopes are being stirred up by the right again. Wonder what the right is using outrage over flag burnings to deflect attention from this time.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)Yes, it's that insane.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)unprovoked. No one is burning flags. How much of an idiot do you have to be to be driving around with a bumper sticker advocating violence against an imaginary slight?
Honestly, the stupidity and the drama mongering are amazing.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)particularly when those humans disagree with them. The cloth means something to them while the human means nothing to them.
I take George Carlin's advice and leave symbols to the symbol-minded.
Tikki
(14,557 posts)That tired old canard reminds me of: I'd rather my son be dead than to have long hair...or...The only good hippie
is a dead hippie.
Tired, old, bitter people keep the hate alive..even if it makes them look beyond stupid.
Tikki
underpants
(182,803 posts)No of course, that is a dashboard believer playing victim as instructed
watch the sky
(129 posts)free speech issue, who is this redneck to dictate a suicide clause?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)and who voted for it. Thank you.
Mariana
(14,857 posts)It's MY flag. Mine. I own it. It belongs to me. Just like the flag that you bought is YOUR flag.
I'll do what I damn well please with MY flag.