• r0ertel@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I was asked this while traveling in another country. I didn’t have a good answer. FWIW, I don’t own any clothing with any flags on them.

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        3 days ago

        Wearing depictions if the flag is against flag code anyway. Not a legal standard, but if someone actually cared for real, they wouldn’t use it as decoration.

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          3 days ago

          Code is for the government. The people should be free to celebrate the freedom it’s meant to represent.

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            2 days ago

            Sure, but if they really had the respect for it they pretend to have, they wouldn’t be wearing it.

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              2 days ago

              A piece of fabric is not worthy of respect, the values it’s meant to represent are. Disrespecting the flag against it’s own code is one of the greatest statements of that freedom

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                Yes, but the people that wear the flag are generally the same ones that want to make burning it in protest illegal. The hypocrisy of wanting to force respect for the flag yet not respecting it yourself is what I am against.