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:	post by Man_of_the_Century at 2006-07-03 11:37:37

ShadowSD said:

Nah, in that case, why would people like Stein or anyone else make a big deal about the flag being a symbol if anything could be?

To put it more succinctly, there's a difference between a symbol and a shared symbol. Anything can be a symbol to an individual, you are correct, but when Stein mentions the flag as a symbol, he's speaking about it as a symbol that has a shared historical meaning to all of us. That is the kind of symbol I was referring to above to argue against the amendment.

Damn English language with it's semantic imperfections.

I was more putting it out there cause symbolism can mean diffrent things to diffrent people. Like the example thrown out there about a flag made in China is burned to protest moving American business to other countries. Although I would look down at that person for doing it, I wouldn't be that mad at him for it. Its all in the context of the protest, and that context determins what the flag symbolizes.

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