Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:05:40 -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: 7bit Lines: 37 Path: ...!uucp.uio.no!fnord.no!news1.firedrake.org!nntp.terraraq.uk!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 03:05:41 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2211 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c0ceb693286352$341$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 2611 On 3/27/2024 7:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article > <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com>, > 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. > > What if the former is one of protest, too? That'd be for a judge to be convinced of ...who might ask, e.g., whether the defendant *knew* how the act would be perceived.