Capturing a flag and putting it in a museum tells other side they've lost. Burning a flag says to enemy: you still have power to annoy us.
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Of course, the people who love Confederate flag still have power, but political symbolism can be aspirational: our goal is flag in museum
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@HeerJeet You make them carry it as they walk in your triumph through Rome.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Humiliation doesn't exactly make the enemy amenable either. Nor does calling them the enemy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet "Pissing on the altar is still a way of paying homage to the Church."—Raoul VaneigemThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet To keep the actual flag captured in defeat displayed in a museum also lends it peculiar totemic power.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I can't speak for the organizers of CSA-flag-burning actions. But I don't think humiliation is the goal.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet The idea that it's OK to fly that flag is disappearing from the mainstream. Burn it to make extremists out themselves.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet To drive a wedge between extremists and the mainstream—in order to cleanse the mainstream.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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