Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 18:44:15 -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> <17c2951988fe8093$63098$3121036$c0d58a68@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: 45 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: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:44:16 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2521 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c297edfa153aa3$80147$2218499$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 2902 On 4/2/2024 6:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article > <17c2951988fe8093$63098$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com>, > 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. > > Or maybe to protest their government's actions and polices with regard > to queers since government at all levels seems to have been captured by > the Pronoun People. Dislike of the Pronoun People seldom proceeds to physical abuse.