Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:09:19 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 37 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:09:21 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2087 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c0fcc06435d9b1$37203$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 2468 On 3/28/2024 10:17 AM, FPP wrote: > On 3/27/24 6:58 PM, moviePig wrote: >> On 3/27/2024 6:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , >>>   "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >>> >>>> BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Last Friday, a Chicago alderman (there are cockroaches with higher >>>>>> social >>>>>> standing) gave a speech at a rally outside city hall condemning Biden >>>>>> and support for Israel in the war against Hamas. A veteran had >>>>>> burned a >>>>>> special American flag >>>> >>>>> 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. >> > > Pig, if you OWN the flag, any flag, you can burn it all you like. I'd imagine a "hate crime" might include more the mere fact of burning.