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In reply to the discussion: Burning The US Flag Is Akin to Displaying the Confederate Flag [View all]renie408
(9,854 posts)I think the point was that there are people who do care, care for good reasons and are revolted by those kinds of displays. There are a lot of things that I couldn't give two shits about; the flag and a Bible being among them. But that doesn't mean that I would recklessly offend the vast majority of people that DO care by making some statement that most likely the people I am making the statement TO won't get. If the goal is to represent the 99%, then making a statement by burning a flag (which is going to repulse most of that 99%) doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. It might feel good in the over-heated moment, but it is going to move things backwards rather than forwards.
Or it was a plot by infiltrators and therefore did what it was supposed to do. I can't keep all of that straight. But the idea is that good people take the feelings of others into consideration. YOUR personal feelings are not really that important when interacting in society. It is no, in fact, all about you.
BTW...that's how I raised those good kids.