Right or wrong aside, burning a flag is a TERRIBLE way to protest.

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37. Bullshit. There are plenty of people offended by flag burning who are NOT clutching pearls.

I personally could give less of a damn about it. But I'd say a vast majority of average working class people across the entire ideological spectrum are turned off by it. If you don't get that, then you don't really understand much about this society at all. It doesn't matter how justified it is. OWS is trying to sell a message and flag burning is a sure fire way to get the door slammed right in its face by a lot of otherwise good citizens who happen to harbor these odd religious-esque fetishes for things like the flag.

How about, how about, how about... how about who gives a fuck? All your "how abouts" aren't ever going to reach the average citizen that gets offended by these sorts of things. So get over your "how abouts". They are irrelevant and fruitless arguments. This is politics. This is about selling good ideology. These idiots setting flags on fire are doing nothing but turning people off. Its nothing more than a giant fucking present laid at the right wing's doorstep. Its giving them easy fuel to discredit the movement. And once the movement is discredited and people stop listening to the message, then all the "how abouts" in the world will get us absolutely nowhere.

The flag burners are nothing more than immature, short sighted, mental midgets who should be shunned. Not because its the American flag or any of that kind of pseudo-religious nonsense in the name of superficial patriotism, but simply because the realities of our society dictates that such actions do real damage to the goal of selling people on a good message. Thats the real sin here. They'd do more good for the real OWS message had they set themselves on fire.