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What say you MN?
Disrespectful?
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Re: What say you MN?
I changed my name
Yes.
Yep. I totally agree.
I'm here. I don't like any alteration of the American flag though. Native American, gay pride, giant W, Obama head, whatever. Leave it alone and get off my lawn.
67/200
This is pretty much my feelings exactly.
And it's my Nietzsche class that made me care, lol! It's a symbol (like the EGA) that means something to people, me included. Granted, I'm not going to get actually angry about it, but I certainly don't care for it.
But the idea that symbols don't matter simply isn't true. And what someone does to an important symbol can affect it.
vs.
ETA: And before anyone goes all AmyJustin on me, I am not comparing the above Obama face flag to a Nazi flag.
Most Hindus I know don't use the symbol anymore.
But don't you think Hindus were/are offended by the use?
I took this
off my car when I realized it offended people with this
on their car.
I personally believe that it's for the worse generally when people adopt sacred (religiously, societally, or culturally sacred) images or symbols to further beliefs that are separate from that symbol. And though I am a Christian who believes in evolution (which is what the Darwin fish represented to me ), I recognize that it can be offensive to Christians who are more conservative than I am theologically. So it doesn't further my "cause" which is that it's okay to be a Christian who believes in evolution. Just like it doesn't further my cause to elect the president to another term by making him look like a narcissist.
It's the same as my argument against flag burning. I don't think these sorts of displays of free speech should be illegal, I just think it's imprudent to not realize this will offend people.
But the fact that I don't think it should be illegal =/= not being offended by it. That's where the Nietzsche stuff steps in. Societal standards and all that, that you don't codify, because that ends up taking Nietzsche where Hitler took him, but I think an okay societal standard is that you don't mess with the American flag. The story I posted the other day about the guy who burned the VFW flag? That really, really bothered me. That flag flew over a FOB in Afghanistan/Iraq that people didn't make it off of. That flag symbolizes them, so altering it, burning it, whatever is offensive. No, it doesn't change what it means to me, but it still offends me.
ETA: It's like how you and I get offended when people out in town (like that broad at the LV mall) wear MARPAT. It's not illegal, it's just gross and judgeworthy.