Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 05:50:56 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> <17c2951988fe8093$63098$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:50:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5ccd3ca40f145295fb2f48dc9543631c"; logging-data="4050753"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18cejZ7g8u8mkitVg+xBAkd" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:eSnfVHn+DGKWav5bjftI/TKZSzw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <17c2951988fe8093$63098$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3035 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. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0