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Instructions graphic titled "How to fold the Confederate Battle Flag". Five diagrams show a Confederate flag folded like a triangular flag fold, each step smaller with arrows. The last step is a small triangle, followed by a drawing of the flag burning in a gray metal barrel.

Folding the Confederate Flag, Burn Barrel Edition

A parody of flag-folding instructions that ends with the Confederate battle flag burning in a barrel, a political jab shared on social media and across school civics lessons.

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Instructions graphic titled "How to fold the Confederate Battle Flag". Five diagrams show a Confederate flag folded like a triangular flag fold, each step smaller with arrows. The last step is a small triangle, followed by a drawing of the flag burning in a gray metal barrel.

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