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On 4/3/2024 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2024 at 8:36:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> 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 <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.
>>>   
>>>   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.