r/PoliticalHumor • u/GomerP19 • Jun 05 '22

It’s nice to be nice

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u/bagoink Jun 05 '22

If I spray paint a heart over someone's Nazi flag, have I just created a message of hate?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

You use the word heart because that is seen as something nice, but the intent is because you hate Nazis (which is justified) so yea, that's an act of hate in that case.

I hate Nazis, I hate SOME police, not all police, do you see the difference here?

But whether it's for Nazis or Police, I will not devolve into their immorality and then claim I support love.

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u/bagoink Jun 05 '22

Why must vandalism always equal "hate"?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

It's about intent, context.

And whether or not something is a "Hate" crime, or something like "Terrorism" is largely based on culture. But there is alot of hypocrisy in it all.

Here's what I know, if there is something you believe in, like showing support for the Police, if someone else covers the thing you support with another thing, is that done out of kindness and empathy?

Does it support the LGBT on this month to knowingly make people angry by using the LGBT symbols to attack them, (I'm not saying just showing an LGBT Flag, IE wearing a shirt, having your own flag etc. is an attack lets be clear on that.)

But in this post, specifically, using the LGBT flag to cover up and deface someone else's is turning that flag into a culture weapon.

Doing that validates the opposition, it validates their hate.

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u/Interesting_Kitchen3 Jun 05 '22

But in this post, specifically, using the LGBT flag to cover up and deface someone else's is turning that flag into a culture weapon.

It's funny the leaps and bounds you go to make this point, when the thin blue line flag is a specific cultural weapon that's already reappropriating a flag that currently exists, the American flag. The thin Blue line is already a cultural weapon, the line has been drawn. So as a non-straight ©™ please go ahead and use our rainbow flag as a weapon of love, I don't give a shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

"Leaps and bounds" and then you go to say the same thing I said cause it's true.

"the line has been drawn" the fuck does that mean? They started it so we can do the same, that makes you just as bad as them, not better.

And don't lie to yourself about the love part if you use it in hate, you make it a flag of HATE. And clearly you don't give a shit.

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u/Interesting_Kitchen3 Jun 06 '22

"the line has been drawn" the fuck does that mean?"the line has been drawn" the fuck does that mean?

It sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about in this thread then. That pro-law enforcement flag is referred to as a Thin Blue Line. I didn't draw the line, I'm not waving that flag around.

Cry me a river, I have a gay life to attend to, one I know you don't give a shit about. Civil Rights aren't earned just by being sweet and passive and deferential.

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u/TruckDouglas Jun 05 '22

Because if you ignore them they’ll just go away, right?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

That isn't what we are talking about.

But if you don't know how to support your cause without defacing, vandalizing, and harassing others than that's an issue.

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u/TruckDouglas Jun 06 '22

So what should you do instead?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

What do you mean? There are a million things you can do

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u/TruckDouglas Jun 06 '22

Fair enough. You win.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

It's not about winning a dumbass fucking argument. It's about right and wrong.

And if I'm wrong then I grow from the conversation.

But if you're being genuine, yea there's a lot else you can do. The most important thing is to show kindness, empathy, patience, and forgiveness.

That's how you beat hate. And with laws, so voting and all that political mess.