Nah. Fuck'emidarkphoenixi said:snip of enemies burning flags
It's only a problem if you burn your own flag. Otherwise, it's like getting mad at yo' momma jokes.
Nah. Fuck'emidarkphoenixi said:snip of enemies burning flags
Flags don't represent governments they represent the people of the nation, so burning it implies that you hate the people of the nation. Rallies and pickets are less hostile than burning flags in city centres. If you think burning flags is an acceptable form of protest do you think pissing and shitting on war memorials is an acceptable form of protest against military occupation of a country?Mortai Gravesend said:Why wouldn't they burn it just to make a protest against their government? Why would it indicate that they don't want to identify with the country anymore? Why would they need to resort to pickets and rallies instead for that to be their message? You're asking why, but I'm seeing no reason to think they can't.ToTaL LoLiGe said:Alright I've changed my mind all flag burners think that way. Why would someone burn a flag to piss of their own government, if they still wanted to identify with that countr? Why don't they protest using pickets and rallies?Mortai Gravesend said:If you don't deny that people burn flags don't all think that way then where's your point? Clearly there are people who burn it to protest the government.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I didn't say all. For the record I don't agree with my government or what it's doing in the middle east, I'm not burning flags and I know a lot of people who feel the same and again they aren't burning flags.Mortai Gravesend said:You seriously think that every person who burns a flag in their own country thinks that way? I think you're really projecting your view of flag burning onto others and just trying to make it fit when it doesn't.ToTaL LoLiGe said:Just because someone lives in a country doesn't mean that they identify with the people of that country. A man born in the US, UK, NZ or spain whose family are from say Afghanistan might see himself as Afghan nationality more than the nationality of his birth country. It's likely that residents burning the flag of their country don't want to be associated with that country.Mortai Gravesend said:That makes little sense since people burn their own flag. Thus they clearly mean it as a message against the government. It would make no sense as a message against themselves.ToTaL LoLiGe said:You say that flag burning is a gesture towards the government, I see it as a gesture against the people of a nation. Because of this I get as offended as someone that has been the victim of a racial slur.Mortai Gravesend said:One is discriminatory, backed by a very negative past including violence and serious consequences.ToTaL LoLiGe said:Alright, I'll rephrase my question why do you find it so un-logical that I find flag burning as offensive as a racial slur?Mortai Gravesend said:I love posting something reasonable and having people twist it to mean something else.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I love posting my opinions and watching them get ripped apart. Why can't I be offended by flag burning?Mortai Gravesend said:Alright, I personally feel that makes as much sense as wearing a shoe on your head. Presumably there should be some logic behind it, but apparently not.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I personally feel that flag burning is as offensive as a racial slur.Mortai Gravesend said:Okay. Drop the religious part and that still leaves my issue with saying it's the same as a racial slur.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I didn't say flag burning was the same as burning religious texts.Mortai Gravesend said:What? No it isn't. Those are other terms are discriminatory and have baggage behind them. Burning a flag protests what the nation is doing. Burning a Koran or Bible protests the ideas they stand for.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I do take offense to flag burning, It's like calling a black man "a dirty ******" or a brown person "a paki bastard" except you're saying it to an entire country. I'm from the UK, I also object to the burning of anything that represents a culture so koran burning, bible burning, poppy burning is offensive. I'm not personally offended by bible or koran burning because I'm not a muslim or christian but it is disrespectful.
Let's get some things straight.
1. I did not say that you could or could not do anything.
2. I am objecting to the comparison between flag burning and racial slurs.
3. I made no comment on being offended by flag burning itself, only on the comparison.
The other is merely a gesture against the government of a nation and its actions.
One is a personal affront to people, the other is a comment on their feelings towards a government and how it's acted.
And so what if they're not burning flags and you aren't? What's that supposed to prove?
I could ask you the opposite of that question. Burning a flag pisses off the general population, I take that as evidence that flags represent people.Mortai Gravesend said:And where did that 'fact' come from? Where is it written in stone that flags don't represent governments, they represent people?ToTaL LoLiGe said:Flags don't represent governments they represent the people of the nation, so burning it implies that you hate the people of the nation. Rallies and pickets are less hostile than burning flags in city centres. If you think burning flags is an acceptable form of protest do you think pissing and shitting on war memorials is an acceptable form of protest against military occupation of a country?Mortai Gravesend said:Why wouldn't they burn it just to make a protest against their government? Why would it indicate that they don't want to identify with the country anymore? Why would they need to resort to pickets and rallies instead for that to be their message? You're asking why, but I'm seeing no reason to think they can't.ToTaL LoLiGe said:Alright I've changed my mind all flag burners think that way. Why would someone burn a flag to piss of their own government, if they still wanted to identify with that countr? Why don't they protest using pickets and rallies?Mortai Gravesend said:If you don't deny that people burn flags don't all think that way then where's your point? Clearly there are people who burn it to protest the government.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I didn't say all. For the record I don't agree with my government or what it's doing in the middle east, I'm not burning flags and I know a lot of people who feel the same and again they aren't burning flags.Mortai Gravesend said:You seriously think that every person who burns a flag in their own country thinks that way? I think you're really projecting your view of flag burning onto others and just trying to make it fit when it doesn't.ToTaL LoLiGe said:Just because someone lives in a country doesn't mean that they identify with the people of that country. A man born in the US, UK, NZ or spain whose family are from say Afghanistan might see himself as Afghan nationality more than the nationality of his birth country. It's likely that residents burning the flag of their country don't want to be associated with that country.Mortai Gravesend said:That makes little sense since people burn their own flag. Thus they clearly mean it as a message against the government. It would make no sense as a message against themselves.ToTaL LoLiGe said:You say that flag burning is a gesture towards the government, I see it as a gesture against the people of a nation. Because of this I get as offended as someone that has been the victim of a racial slur.Mortai Gravesend said:One is discriminatory, backed by a very negative past including violence and serious consequences.ToTaL LoLiGe said:Alright, I'll rephrase my question why do you find it so un-logical that I find flag burning as offensive as a racial slur?Mortai Gravesend said:I love posting something reasonable and having people twist it to mean something else.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I love posting my opinions and watching them get ripped apart. Why can't I be offended by flag burning?Mortai Gravesend said:Alright, I personally feel that makes as much sense as wearing a shoe on your head. Presumably there should be some logic behind it, but apparently not.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I personally feel that flag burning is as offensive as a racial slur.Mortai Gravesend said:Okay. Drop the religious part and that still leaves my issue with saying it's the same as a racial slur.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I didn't say flag burning was the same as burning religious texts.Mortai Gravesend said:What? No it isn't. Those are other terms are discriminatory and have baggage behind them. Burning a flag protests what the nation is doing. Burning a Koran or Bible protests the ideas they stand for.ToTaL LoLiGe said:I do take offense to flag burning, It's like calling a black man "a dirty ******" or a brown person "a paki bastard" except you're saying it to an entire country. I'm from the UK, I also object to the burning of anything that represents a culture so koran burning, bible burning, poppy burning is offensive. I'm not personally offended by bible or koran burning because I'm not a muslim or christian but it is disrespectful.
Let's get some things straight.
1. I did not say that you could or could not do anything.
2. I am objecting to the comparison between flag burning and racial slurs.
3. I made no comment on being offended by flag burning itself, only on the comparison.
The other is merely a gesture against the government of a nation and its actions.
One is a personal affront to people, the other is a comment on their feelings towards a government and how it's acted.
And so what if they're not burning flags and you aren't? What's that supposed to prove?
And maybe you should think before you speak. Pissing and shitting on public property in general is something to disallow. You're deliberately constructing a biased scenario where I have other reasons to disagree.
I think a lot of peoples' anger about this comes from the way that burning the flag of a country inherently implies that you hate everyone in it. And when someone says that they hate you then that's generally not cool.idarkphoenixi said:Not sure why I'm asking this. I was just watching a YouTube video of yet another example of Middle-Eastern people burning American flags. I know, right? It's so new and suprising.
But then it cut to somewhere in London where the local Muslims were burning a UK flag. I wasn't so much offended as I was confused. As in, why are they burning the flag of where they live? But I digress...Anyway, when I skimmed the comment section, as you do. I found a ton of what I assume to be Americans/British resident's crying out about how offensive flag burning is. I don't really care about the whole thing, hopefully that doesn't make me "unpatriotic" or whatever but there ya go.
However, this isn't about me (unfortunately). I want to know what others think. Hopefully a large chuck of Americans pop by, since they seem to take 'patriotism' more cereally than most.
It's more than just a piece of cloth, it's a symbol; and by burning said symbol it's basically like saying "fuck you" to the nation the flag represents.dyre said:It seems mostly pointless. I think it's basically a way for angry people to vent without actually doing anything harmful (or useful).
People who get offended should keep in mind that it's just a piece of cloth that's being burnt, instead of, you know, a human being.