Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 17:42:35 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <17c2951988fe8093$63098$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> <17c2cf26c4db72b2$7802$1100308$44d50e60@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: 52 Path: ...!news.snarked.org!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:42:37 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2670 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c2e3252df08033$63111$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3059 On 4/3/2024 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Apr 3, 2024 at 8:36:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: > >> On 4/3/2024 5:50 AM, FPP wrote: >>> 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. >> >> But not at a gay-pride march under laws against hate speech. > > There are no laws against hate speech in the United States. If any legislature > should pass such a law, it would be unconstitutional. ....until some future SCOTUS rules differently.