Boos rain down at the Bell Centre during The Star-Spangled Banner
PM Justin Trudeau was in the house to witness first-hand hockey fans from his country booing the U.S. anthem for the second straight game.
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Good. It's about time people stopped treating the US flag with respect in western countries.
And in the US. The flag doesn't deserve any respect as it's a sign of oppression and Nazis. If I see anyone with a flag that's not accompanied by a pride flag or something else liberal, I assume they are racist nationalists because that's all it represents now.
The US flag has always been an icon of bad things, stupidity and ignorance.
I completely understand the feeling. After the 2022 "freedom convoys" the maple leaf became associated with similar kinds of people. Canada Day 2022 was not a day filled with patriotism. It slowly made its way back to normal over the next 2 years, but up until the last few months someone with a flag flying from their car window still gave off a particular negative vibe. Now it's back and bigger than ever.
If we stop being shitty, the boos will stop. It's not too hard to understand. I never thought we'd be this bad.
It hasn't been treated with respect for a while. First, the type of people to loudly fly it are usually doing so with performative patriotism. Or they'll ignore the US Flag Code by wearing it as clothing, using it in advertisements and bedding, draped over vehicles, etc. They often fly it alongside the flag of Trump (who's actively destroying our country with an unelected fascist), the flag of the traitors to our country (secessionist racists), the flag of supporting the successors to slave-catchers (police bullies with qualified immunity abusing the law), or even the flag of our literal enemies in the last World War (the Nazi swastika).
What is a country beside land and words written on old paper long ago? It's the people. Personally, I think we have a pretty great flag, but if you're actively hurting people in the country and glad about it, you're disrespecting this country more than anything you could do to its flag...
Very rarely does anyone use the flag as clothing. Portraying it on clothing is allowed.
Are you kidding me!?
There's thousands of pages of American flag clothing!
And I didn't say "allowed", just that the official US Flag Code prohibits it. But yeah, no one's going to come arrest you...
Yeah that cape would not be allowed. The rest are just similar color and pattern. You think anything that uses the colors red, white, and blue is prohibited?
Lol wut. Respect isnt the word to describe how people have responded to US symbols, since at least 40 years
It is respectful not to boo when the US flag is shown. Western countries have been quite respectful in that regard. Countries bombed by the US or otherwise afflicted by US decisions however...
Lol wut. People have burned the US flag in probably every country. Having respect for terrorists and the greatest threat to all life on earth is absurd
Everybody is a terrorist to somebody.
Get a large enough group of people, and you won't find anything that at least one person doesn't hate.
Terrorist has a specific definition. Someone hated ghandi enough to murder him, but Ghandi was not a terrorist.