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good topic!
certainly the UKs flag, the Union Jack, has come to be associated with right-wingers, which I think has devalued it. I agree with a couple of the comments above - lots of people don't mind if you honestly object to something your country is doing, but e.g. wearing Union Jack underclothes to appear patriotic when you really only love money is stupid and offensive.
personally I wouldn't care if someone burned a British flag or a Welsh flag in front of me. If they did it in front of a veteran of WWII and it upset them, then I'd get upset. I thought the whole point of western democracy was that we had free speech, and a country as powerful as America, or even UK, should be able to cope with a few people expressing dissent like this...
... shouldn't they?
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