The U.S. flag, George Washington was a slave owner.

[grasping the after wind]

Is it? So are you inclined to think a picture of Adolf Hitler on money or a street named "Adolf Hitler Drive" or a public school named "Adolf Hitler Elementary" is different from a flag and what a flag symbolizes on the basis one is human and the other is an object? Doesn't the person and his name, "Jesus" symbolize how he lived, what he believed, his ideals, beliefs, such that the person and name is a symbol for those very things? Doesn't the name and person "Socrates" symbolize how he lived, what he did? "Socrates," the name and man does symbolize his conduct and actions, so much so there is a practice, a peculiar conduct in the legal profession called, "The Socratic Method."

I think you are making an unpersuasive point to distinguish a symbol on the basis one is an object and another a person.

A person is not a symbol. Where exactly does one find this Adolf Hitler Drive? I think that would be a fine place to fly a confederate flag.

 

[NotreDame]

A person is not a symbol. Where exactly does one find this Adolf Hitler Drive? I think that would be a fine place to fly a confederate flag.

Really? A people can be and in fact are symbols for something, such as an idea(s), values, beliefs, and practices. Jesus is a symbol to Christians of how to live. Jesus is a symbol of the values, beliefs, and ideas he espoused and the life he lived. A common phrase in the Christian community is, "I need to be more like Christ." Christ is a symbol to Christians of how to behave, how to live, how to treat others, etcetera.

Famous athletes, rock stars, hip hop artists, they are most certainly a symbol of a particular lifestyle, a behavior, and they inspire other people to live similar lives or to want to live similar lives. The famous phrase, "Be like Mike," immortalized in a Gatorade commercial

inspired a generation of kids, adults, and teenagers to act, behave, and conduct themselves in a particular manner. There is a reason why people were paying, myself included, over one hundred dollars to wear Michael Jordan's Nike shoes, his t-shirts, and other merchandise. Michael Jordan is perhaps the best sports symbol ever and it is rather difficult to fathom Nike would have made its millions, along with Jordan, in the absence of Jordan being a symbol. Michael Jordan was most certainly a symbol and people understood him to be a symbol.

In a society inundated with stars, super stars, famous people, and the practice of idolizing these people, and millions of people inspired to be like them, desiring to be like them, to live like them, it is rather difficult to conceive your point as being anything but illogical.

A person can be a symbol, they can come to symbolize ideas, beliefs, practices, and behaviors. Now, if you are wondering why you cannot find "Adolf Hitler Drive" a very good explanation is perhaps no such drive exists as it is understood the name and man "Adolf Hitler" symbolize something, the man is a symbol, a very derogatory symbol, which is why no streets are named after him.

Yes, the evidence, facts, and most compelling reasoning show people can be and are symbols. Your statement to the contrary is an untenable proposition.

 

[DaisyDay]

Individuals can fly whatever flag they choose - they can fly a Jolly Roger or an upside down American flag, if they choose. Obviously, even state and local governments can fly a Confederate flag, can and do. If the people living in those places decide that that is too much of a disgrace, then that, too, is their decision.

 

[grasping the after wind]

Really? A people can be and in fact are symbols for something, such as an idea(s), values, beliefs, and practices. Jesus is a symbol to Christians of how to live. Jesus is a symbol of the values, beliefs, and ideas he espoused and the life he lived. A common phrase in the Christian community is, "I need to be more like Christ." Christ is a symbol to Christians of how to behave, how to live, how to treat others, etcetera.

Famous athletes, rock stars, hip hop artists, they are most certainly a symbol of a particular lifestyle, a behavior, and they inspire other people to live similar lives or to want to live similar lives. The famous phrase, "Be like Mike," immortalized in a Gatorade commercial

inspired a generation of kids, adults, and teenagers to act, behave, and conduct themselves in a particular manner. There is a reason why people were paying, myself included, over one hundred dollars to wear Michael Jordan's Nike shoes, his t-shirts, and other merchandise. Michael Jordan is perhaps the best sports symbol ever and it is rather difficult to fathom Nike would have made its millions, along with Jordan, in the absence of Jordan being a symbol. Michael Jordan was most certainly a symbol and people understood him to be a symbol.

In a society inundated with stars, super stars, famous people, and the practice of idolizing these people, and millions of people inspired to be like them, desiring to be like them, to live like them, it is rather difficult to conceive your point as being anything but illogical.

A person can be a symbol, they can come to symbolize ideas, beliefs, practices, and behaviors. Now, if you are wondering why you cannot find "Adolf Hitler Drive" a very good explanation is perhaps no such drive exists as it is understood the name and man "Adolf Hitler" symbolize something, the man is a symbol, a very derogatory symbol, which is why no streets are named after him.

Yes, the evidence, facts, and most compelling reasoning show people can be and are symbols. Your statement to the contrary is an untenable proposition.

People are not symbols they are living breathing( or once were so) human beings. I think it is disgusting to reduce a human being to a symbol. Humans deserve more respect than that. Each individual is a unique and valuable person not some representative of someone else's ideas about them that have no relationship to who and what that person actually is ( or was).

 

[Red Fox]

For the OP, here's a great idea for a street sign that they can use.... As it says, best street sign ever.