So, I'm not sure how wide spread this story has gotten, but I'm seeing blogs and message boards exploding all over the place about it, so I thought I'd add my two cents
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Thinking about it, I think if the same thing were set up in our student center I would start to cross, stop when I noticed the flags, then continue crossing, but stepping around them, but that's actually less "omg the flag!" and more "someone's stuff is on the floor and I don't want to get footprints on it".
That's pretty much why I stepped around them in the first place, I wont lie. While it certainly crossed my mind that it was disrespectful to walk on the flag, and I wondered how many had, it had less to do with patriotism than it did the fact that I knew it was someones project. And I think that's why most of the students stepped around it. This is our art week and we've been berated repeatedly for vandalizing projects. I think 75% of the students were in the mindset of "Don't ruin the project!". The respect for the flag thing didn't even come up until the veteran showed up to protest.
If I'd of thought about it and understood the point of the project, I still would have walked around the flags because I do think it's disrespectful to stand on a flag, cheap replica or not. But the intent of the project wasn't clear to pretty much any of us, and it would have skewed the results if there was a giant sign screaming WALKING ON THE FLAG = TERRORIZMS!
Personally, I think everyone involved needs to chill out. I totally understand the veteran's point about having respect for the flag and everything, but honestly, it's a student's project, not a public flag-burning or something. Besides, little made-in-China flags? Not exactly the same as a full-sized flag waving from a pole, at least not to me.
I feel the same; if it had been a real flag, I would have been a lot more upset about it being on the floor. But I still wouldn't have tried to make her take down her project. My biggest problem lies in everyone telling everyone else to STFU. It makes me sad, coming from such a liberal school.
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If I'd of thought about it and understood the point of the project, I still would have walked around the flags because I do think it's disrespectful to stand on a flag, cheap replica or not. But the intent of the project wasn't clear to pretty much any of us, and it would have skewed the results if there was a giant sign screaming WALKING ON THE FLAG = TERRORIZMS!
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Personally, I think everyone involved needs to chill out. I totally understand the veteran's point about having respect for the flag and everything, but honestly, it's a student's project, not a public flag-burning or something. Besides, little made-in-China flags? Not exactly the same as a full-sized flag waving from a pole, at least not to me.
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