University of Virginia students holding ‘antifascist’ ‘flag burning’ event to protest Trump order

https://www.foxnews.com/media/university-virginia-looking-flag-burning-tailgate-event-from-anti-fascist-group

31 comments

  1. tbh UVA kids doin’ this sit-in, they ain’t just makin’ a point, they’re making HISTORY. Takes serious balls to stand up against those in power, especially if it’s your own school.

  2. Trump said he made it illegal with one year in jail.

    Burning the flag is the accepted way to “retire” an old worn flag. The Boy Scouts do it in a ceremony and have for decades. He doesn’t know that, no one will tell him and he does what he wants. He says it, thinks it law and on to the next thing.

  3. Rights are meant to protect unpopular things. Period.

    I’d never burn a flag. I hurts me to see one. It shouldn’t be a crime to do it.

    “Colleges should be safe spaces physically but dangerous places ideologically.” -Scott Galloway

  4. This veteran 1000% supports their right to burn some flags.

  5. This veteran and Hokie by (family) proxy PROUDLY supports these brave students.

  6. Much like every previous time in American history, the young bear the responsibility to fight for the future while the old lecture them about “not doing it the right way” while doing nothing.

  7. The group is called “Friends Against Fascism Organization”, or FAFO for short.

  9. Good, the racist and blood thirsty pedophile capitalists are trying to destroy the country, we are allowed to voice our disgust at their brazen heresy against humanity.

  11. Keep in mind flag burning is a protected first amendment right no matter what MAGA dopes try to lie and claim. Just don’t steal flags that belong to other people.

  13. Awesome. Fucking awesome. Good on you UVA kids for showing the country how to tell Trump and his gang of fascists to suck it in a legal and acceptable way.

  14. We should organize voodoo dolls torture and burning events! Fat Trump, Baby Vance in a dress, KKK Miller and Hegseth in pink camo suit.

  15. I will not click on Fox News. But did find out their group is called Friends Against Fascism Organization

  16. Good! I’ve been so disappointed in this generation of young adults. Not many attend protests—I’m unusually one of the youngest in my 40s—and no antiestablishment music.

  19. It’s protected speech backed by precedent (in case that still means anything) so Trump and his crew can go fuck themselves.

  20. Fox News trying to stir shit up as usual, no mention of any of the desecration Trump supporters have done to the flag, which is their right.

  22. An appropriate song that is even more relevant today than it was when Bob Dylan wrote it in the 1960’s

    **The Times They Are A-Changin”** by Bob Dylan

    Come gather ’round people
    Wherever you roam
    And admit that the waters
    Around you have grown
    And accept it that soon
    You’ll be drenched to the bone
    If your time to you is worth savin’
    And you better start swimmin’
    Or you’ll sink like a stone
    For the times they are a-changin’

    Come writers and critics
    Who prophesize with your pen
    And keep your eyes wide
    The chance won’t come again
    And don’t speak too soon
    For the wheel’s still in spin
    And there’s no tellin’ who
    That it’s namin’
    For the loser now
    Will be later to win
    For the times they are a-changin’

    Come senators, congressmen
    Please heed the call
    Don’t stand in the doorway
    Don’t block up the hall
    For he that gets hurt
    Will be he who has stalled
    The battle outside ragin’
    Will soon shake your windows
    And rattle your walls
    For the times they are a-changin’

    Come mothers and fathers
    Throughout the land
    And don’t criticize
    What you can’t understand
    Your sons and your daughters
    Are beyond your command
    Your old road is rapidly agin’
    Please get out of the new one
    If you can’t lend your hand
    For the times they are a-changin’

    The line it is drawn
    The curse it is cast
    The slow one now
    Will later be fast
    As the present now
    Will later be past
    The order is rapidly fadin’
    And the first one now
    Will later be last
    For the times they are a-changin’

  23. Combat Vet and true patriot here. I support your right to burn the flag. Anyone who doesn’t support this right is an uneducated patriot poser.

  25. Trump doesn’t know that laws are made in the Legislative Branch, not the Executive.

  26. The trump regime is synonymous with Fascist so… Wouldn’t it be more effective to burn a Nazi flag? The optics are much better & everyone knows what/who you are talking about.

  28. That was actually a well written Fox News article. What’s going on??

  30. Good for them for using their First Amendment rights.

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