Re: For all the Americans to watch..

Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:

Good thought, but there is some flaw in it:
If someone demonstratively wipes his ass with your portrait, would you
consider this to be the offensive act directed at you? Or he is just
making a piece of paper dirty?

Of course I'd realize that such an act was meant to be offensive, but since
I'm pretty sure of what I am and who I am it'd fail to feel offended. After
all, it's him who waves his mnaked ass in public, not me.

An offense against a symbol implies the offense against what this symbol
is standing for.

Naturally. It's still the potential offendee's choice to feel offended or
not. I'd actually be interested to know what the storeowner was thinking
when he flew the Mexican flag above the US one. Maybe flags mean as little
to him as they do to me, so possibly he just thought he was flying them
"together", in a neighborhoodly way. If I'd see a Turkish flag flown above a
German one on a Turkish store, I'd just think: Look, that fellow likes
Germany and Turkey. That's nice. Of course Germany doesn't have a "flag
code".

robert
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