Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 11:41:21 -0400
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On 4/3/2024 7:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Well, any law can be repealed, decision overturned, and constitution
> amended, but your statement wasn't that of a future wish but as an
> (fallacious) recitation of the status quo.

I "recited" nothing.  I (deliberately) posed a hypothetical.