Do you think that the American flag should be taken down if someone finds it offensive?
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On Flag Day? No. I just wouldn't put it up.
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Not in America
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No everyone else hangs flags from different countries right smack in the middle of their front yards
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It would very much depend on the situation. No American government office should take the flag down for such a complaint. . Any business has the right to make the call of whether to display a flag for any reason whatsoever. . Any American has the right to display flags on his American domicile or his person - while in America (though not the right to make holes on the outer walls of someone else's property). I am having a hard time imagining someone being enough of a jerk to ask me to take down an American flag on my property, but if I was so asked I would almost certainly refuse. . If you take 'American flag' out of the equation and just ask if something in general should be taken down if someone finds it offensive I would have to say that no, it shouldn't, unless the person in charge of the displaying of said thing suddenly sees things the way the complainer does. . There is no right to be not be offended, and caving in to demands by people who claim to be offended has a tendency to make them even more sensitive over time.
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No, I absolutely and unequivocally do not. The very idea is repulsive to me. And you know what? I am not a "rah! rah!-worship-the-flag type either. In fact I despise that behavior as well. I don't fly or display the flag. I respect it per protocol in public assembly, but I don't view it as a sacred object of worship or veneration. I support anyone's right to fly that flag anywhere or anytime he or she chooses in the United States of America and its possessions. I also support any American citizen's right to burn that flag, as long as he or she is not endangering others and/or their possessions. Non-Americans who might burn the flag I have no public opinion on. Unless they're doing it on non-American soil, for whatever their reasons might be, they are being rude and unspeakably offensive to their host. And humanity's penchant for being rude and willfully, unspeakably offensive is of much more concern to me than what happens to a piece of cloth. Ideas live in the mind and heart, not in the realm of matter.
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if that flag in on American soil the the person who complains should be given a ticket out of the country and told to piss off and never come back, if the flag is in another country then maybe they would have the right to complain
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If its on American soil no.
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In America, NO WAY! -
Someone had it happen to them. I don't remember where, but she works in a cubicle, and someone complained.
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Yes. And then you should strangle them with it. . All goofballery aside, an American flag on American soil, is not nor ever can be offensive. Now the Confederate flag, is seen by many as a symbol of opression and bigotry. That I can see being offensive. Taking it down however will offend some/most southerners. Now if the American flag in question is in Russia, China, or some other nation then it may be seen as offensive. To which I reply, if you can kill me, I can't stop you from removing it.
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