Hey guy, don't get catty.
Your post specifically refered to fly the American flag (in this case over a government building) as jingoism:
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Now a few people are pissed because the rest of their community is saying "Hell no, we don't want your fucking jingoism in our faces"
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I was just looking for clarification, not your high horse rant.
Now, allow me to tell you my perspective. On returning home from an overseas deployment in early 2002, the very first person who talked to me after I got off the plane was some woman berateing me for not having a flag on my car at the gas station. That, my friend, is jingoism.
Saying love it or leave it, that is jingoism.
But lets cut to the chase, and do away with all of the moral relativism: If you have a problem with a government building flying a government flag in a dignified manner, then the problem is with you. At the very least you are not smart enough to pick your fights, at the worst you are being a pain in the ass just for the sake of doing so. Hell, some people never grew out of the sixties, they have to protest something.
I am not condoning the acts of the equally idiotic "patriots" who don't know that you aren't supposed to wear the flag as clothing, nor print any manner of message across it. It is not to be used as advertising, period. If flown on a car, it should be affixed to the right fender (as on the presidential limo), but try telling them that. It's the same morons who wear the "love it or leave it" shirts, but don't take their ball cap off during the national anthem.
Both sides of the coin annoy to no end, but see them both for what they are: morons.
Response to edit:
jingoism
n 1: an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions [syn: flag waving] 2: fanatical patriotism [syn: chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism]
I fail to see how flying a flag above a government building qualifies as either of those definitions. No appeal is being made, and I would not describe flag display as fanatical...