Do you believe the American flag is now symbolic of bigotry, violence, & dumb-as-dirt, ignorance?

[TightLipps]

[Kaneki05]

All flags are as that's what tribalism is.
All Flags are founded on slavery, killing and unfair working conditions and blind patriotism.

[normalice]

It's a toss up. 50/50 chance when you see a flag it's either a patriot or a republican.

[OlderAndWiser]

The far left loves to prey on young minds and you seem to have adopted their attitude of hating the US.

Is there bigotry, violence, and ignorance in the US? Of course, there are 340,000,000 million people here and some of them fit that description. But most US citizens do not.

Is there bigotry, violence, and ignorance in countries other than the US? You bet. You can find such qualities in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia. . . Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

What the American flag symbolizes most is that you can post a question displaying hatred for your own country without fear of government agents coming to your home at 3 am and carrying you away for execution due to "subversive tendencies." People in other countries don't have that freedom. Even in the UK, hate speech can result in you being charged with a crime.

If it makes you feel good to hate the US, do what you need to do, but I hope your attitude will mature as you get older.

[WhiteSteve]

I don’t know if I’d go that far, but I’m for sure not very impressed by the character content of the average American these days. Our citizens our worse than our government, which is a problem, because our government isn’t great to start with, lmao

[Anonymous]

No.
Every country in the world has bigotry, and every country in the world has their fair share of ignorant people.


For example, Sweden has had two eugenics programs in their past.
The first was from 1923 to 1941.
Another one started in 1935 and ended in 1976.
Then, when the war between Israel and Palestine broke out, the Swedish people immediately Wanted to kick all of them out.
It wouldn’t surprise me if in the next few years, Sweden starts yet another eugenics program because they already have a history of it.


A good portion of Africa and East Asia Have quite the number of racist people.
And if we’re talking about racism, there’s not even a point bringing up the Middle East They are in love with the idea of committing genocide, which is why the Israel versus Palestine war begin in the first place was because Palestine Wanted to commit genocide on the Jews and this is very well documented.


There’s the Canadians, which have the stereotype of being really nice, but actually they’re quite racist towards the natives and sometimes even quite racist towards Americans and then also countless crimes that they’ve committed and gotten away with. They start to look not so nice.


If you look at the Latinos, who come to the United States There are plenty of them who are racist towards both white and Black people.




In summary, basically every country has a racist past, and even to this day has a decent amount of people who actively commit racism against at least one group of people So calling the stars and stripes a symbol of racism also means you have to recognize that every countries flag is also a symbol of racism and hate and inhumane crimes against humanity because all countries Are guilty of these things no exceptions.






As for ignorance, that’s also not something exclusive to the United States. I would argue that most countries are actually quite ignorant of the world outside of their country. Europeans, for example, might know a decent amount about their own country and some of the surrounding countries in Europe, but if you go to the opposite side of Europe, They probably won’t know much outside of mainstream media and if you go to a completely different continent, they’re definitely not gonna know anything beyond mainstream media because they don’t know anything beyond mainstream media.






The real reason why you’re asking this question is because the United States has built a culture around guilt tripping. That is a piece of culture that started in the United States, but is starting to expand out into Europe and even Africa now.
When you build a culture around guilt, tripping people you’re going to start feeling bad about everything, including things you didn’t do yourself and when this happens, you start to become more aware of the bad things committed by your people or your country or your ancestors and you’re aware of the things that you and your people have done you start to view yourself in a negative light then the people around you even if they did the exact same thing That has to do with experience bias.


When you read something in a book, it’s not going to feel nearly as impactful as something you see firsthand so when you do something bad, it’s going to feel more impactful than when your Cousin, you’ve never met Does something bad.


With this, as you wish, I hope I at least provide some level of knowledge that you can use

[Flatmanlewis]

No. Absolutely not. In fact, the bulk of the world still sees this as a beacon of freedom. Even a little bit of travel to the world (not tourist spots, but the rest of the world where people just live) will show this. Did we already forget the sight of people clinging to the side of airplanes to flee to America when we left Afghanistan?


That flag means you can have an opinion critical of your current political officials. You can chose your own career path. You can love, hate, or say just about whatever you want. You can be gay, straight, or both. We live in a country where a prison sentence means three-hots & a cot (plus college, medical, gym, and so on) versus near certain death in some places. Our judicial process (while flawed) is among the least flawed in the world since a jury of your peers decides your fate, not a government stooge. We have freedom of the press, religion, to demonstrate peacefully, bear arms, appeal decisions & rulings, and vote for the bulk of our own government leaders from the water district to the president.


No, this is not an oppressive nation. At all.

[NaultD]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LasrD6SZkZk

That's the best part of being the greatest country to ever exist we get to choose who we are to the world. So our actions speaks words and that is how people understand AMERICA FUCK YA.

So real talk now. The bigots and violent people know this fact about America very well and we do bad things and the globe is following our lead in a lot of ways. So we have to be better for the world's sake.

[Lliam]

No. The new LGBTQ flags symbolize those things.

The American flag represents all Americans, not individual factions and divisiveness.

It's a shame what kids are being taught in school these days for the purpose of tearing this country apart.

[TonyMetal___86]

I respect the flags of all countries because it symbolize a whole population and a long history of hard working people whom some died for their country...

Now in every country there are good and bad people, no one is perfect and i believe that every country has it's positive and negative side...

My personal opinion which is a fact is that in reality, there's no such thing called a country, we are all humans living on earth's crust but the countries are more like an agreement between each other that this land is mine and this land is yours, i have my own rules and you have your own and that's it...

Earth do not know my country and yours and if the earth was able to speak, it will be saying, we will see who's country is this and that and if you will ever even find your countries anymore when i shuffle the whole land mass and create a whole new land map 🤣🤣

[exitseven]

No, it is a symbol of everything right about the world. Freedom, ingenuity, innovation, and justice. America is in a slump but our best days are ahead.

TRUMP 2024

[TonyMetal___86]

You American people's time is now, it's either you end your nation or make it great again and to make it great again, you have to pick a great president and i believe that this great president is no one other than Donald J. Trump!

[Mac-One]

@exitseven I totally agree, bring back our greatness. Teach our young people pride and respect for our country.

[Dargil]

I believe the American flag is symbolic of the best and final hope for Civilization. An honest question for you. If you feel that way about the USA at whatever age you actually are? Why not plan to emigrate to somewhere else? Things are about to get a lot worse for you.

[bobby_bush_eater]

No not at all. Anyone who believes that is a ignorant fool. You cannot judge history through a lens of today and judge them as such. If anyone truly believes this liberal jargon they will believe anything...

Study history on your own, don't allow it to be dictated to you from a bias or someone else's perspective

[Siri137]

Of course, it just had to be the annoying whingers from 'Burn, Loot and Murder' once again (eyeroll) who are making this ridiculous claim.

[Danny_dan92]

If you hate my country. Then by all fucken means. Leave.




I’d love to see how well off you’d be in other countries.




Ignorant child.

[Jersey2]

Just a foreign troll, pay no attention to it.

[Danny_dan92]

Possibly. But she’s 13 years old… and schools these days are literally indoctrination of the socialist left.

[Jersey2]

Everything “she” posts is anti-Trump and now an anti-American post. Just a troll. Either way it doesn’t have the life you and I have. So sit back and just smirk.

[Mac-One]

Show respect for our flag and country. Bring the country back to it's greatness. Again become independent and self sufficient like in the past.

[handsomelad70]

The American Flag was meant as a symbol of American pride, but more and more, it has come to epitomize the above-mentioned vileness.

[OtterMan68]

no, it's a symbol of the entire country from Joe Biden to a prisoner in jail.

[Anonymous]

The American flag is not symbolic of bigotry, violence, & dumb-as-dirt, ignorance... but Lex Scott is.

[BCRanger10]

Only to the left is that true.

[Anonymous]

Nope, I’m not a moronic Liberal.

[DrPepper12]

Whaddya mean now?

[Knightwatch27]

Not at all no.

[shortster]

Not one bit.