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On 4/2/2024 1:16 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> Mar 27, 2024 at 3:58:45 PM PDT, moviePig <never@nothere.com>:
>>> 3/27/2024 6:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> 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.