Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 11:41:21 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <17c2951988fe8093$63098$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> <17c2cf26c4db72b2$7802$1100308$44d50e60@news.newsdemon.com> <17c2e3252df08033$63111$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> <6IWdnbOgZM0be5D7nZ2dnZfqnPcAAAAA@giganews.com> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: <6IWdnbOgZM0be5D7nZ2dnZfqnPcAAAAA@giganews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 59 Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!tr3.eu1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:41:23 +0000 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c31e036847f89d$33224$111488$4ed50460@news.newsdemon.com> X-Received-Bytes: 3472 Bytes: 3599 On 4/3/2024 7:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > moviePig wrote: >> On 4/3/2024 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> On Apr 3, 2024 at 8:36:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/3/2024 5:50 AM, FPP wrote: >>>>> On 4/2/24 5:52 PM, moviePig wrote: >>>>>> On 4/2/2024 1:16 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>>>>> BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>> Mar 27, 2024 at 3:58:45 PM PDT, moviePig : >>>>>>>>> 3/27/2024 6:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Adam H. Kerman : >>>>>>>>>>> BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> Why is it that burning the American flag is protected speech, >>>>>>>>>>>> but if you >>>>>>>>>>>> burn an Alphabet Mafia rainbow flag, you can get arrested for a >>>>>>>>>>>> hate >>>>>>>>>>>> crime? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> You mean a flag that does not belong to you, not your own flag. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> No, I mean any rainbow flag. If you go buy one yourself, then take >>>>>>>>>> it to >>>>>>>>>> an anti-troon protest and burn it, it's a hate crime. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> But if you buy an American flag and take it to an Antifa riot and >>>>>>>>>> burn >>>>>>>>>> it, protected speech. >>>>>>>>>> ... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The former action is one of hate, the latter is one of protest. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://ibb.co/0FpvG4S >>>>>>> >>>>>>> moviePig is unparseable here. Is he stating that protestors protest >>>>>>> against their friends and not their enemies? I'm so confused. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm here to help. >>>>>> >>>>>> In general, people who burn an American flag do so in protest of their >>>>>> own government's actions and policies, while those who burn a rainbow >>>>>> flag do so to express their hate of queers. >>>>> >>>>> If you own it, you can burn it. >>>> >>>> But not at a gay-pride march under laws against hate speech. >>> >>> There are no laws against hate speech in the United States. If any legislature >>> should pass such a law, it would be unconstitutional. >> >> ...until some future SCOTUS rules differently. > > Well, any law can be repealed, decision overturned, and constitution > amended, but your statement wasn't that of a future wish but as an > (fallacious) recitation of the status quo. I "recited" nothing. I (deliberately) posed a hypothetical.