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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
not necessarily. quite often people read those things and think oh surely they don't mean the flag! they're just trying to make sure the confederate flag and other things don't get put up!!!
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If the rule says "no flags", I'd think it means "no flags", not "no flags except for whichever one I have an emotional attachment to." I don't agree with the policy-- but I don't see how it could be "some flags are okay, but others are not." (FWIW, being in South Carolina, Confederate flags are far from an uncommon site for me.)
The issue, I think, is one of some having an exceptionalist view of the US flag so close to their core identity that they take it for granted that the view is universal.