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| Tweets like this weren’t funny even before this guy got elected to lead the country. |
I’ll get some flak for saying this, but it isn’t disrespectful to burn the flag.
It is disrespectful to suggest that the rights of someone choosing to burn a piece of cloth should be tossed to the wind under a would-be despot’s say-so.
BUT IT ISN’T JUST A PIECE OF CLOTH! IT REPRESENTS THE VERY SPIRIT OF THE COUNTRY ITSELF!
Yes. Exactly. Now, what I want to know is, how do you expect me to respect you when you scream louder, make more noise over that symbol than you do over the very rights it represents?
Get mad about the flag being burned.
But also get mad that hate crimes are up in the wake of our presidential election.
Get mad that the VP-elect thinks it’s okay to try to “convert” LGBT youth to be straight.
Get mad that the president-elect has made more time for his foreign business partners than taking intelligence briefings.
Hell, get mad that the president-elect is spending time on Twitter picking fights with reporters and actors and comedians and activists when there are far more important things going on.
Get mad that the same people so upset over this expression of free speech shrug their shoulders when asked about the surge of another unpopular expression of free speech — white supremacy.
Finally, get mad about a president-elect who openly talks of punishing citizens for an act that is protected by our nation’s constitution and legal precedent.
Then talk to me about how much that flag really represents.
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