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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties
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In article 
<17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com>,
 moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:

> On 3/27/2024 6:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <uu22s3$32lii$2@dont-email.me>,
> >   "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> >>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> 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?