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Re: American Idolatry
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:51:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
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but I support the right of the people to burn the flags in protest, even if I
wouldn’t do that myself.
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This is what I’m talking about. You support the right, but wouldn’t actually
perform the action. May I ask why not?
JOHN
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: American Idolatry
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| (...) Because it's a freedom of speech issue. Same as I support the right of the KKK to march, wear silly sheets, and say mean things(1), while choosing not to actually march, sheetify, or mean-emit with them. Some constitutional scholar you are! (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Well, there's multiple layers at work here. The intellectual ones are: That form of protest should be, in order to maintain the psychological power that it holds, reserved for the very most important levels of dissatisfaction, not the trivial. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: American Idolatry
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| (...) After 9/11, everyone and their dog had flags on their cars, clothes, stickers, houses, etc. It didn't take very long for them to get really ratty. It's funny (to me personally, if no one else) that I find myself uncomfortable with the ratty (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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