Double standard?
 

Joe Biden makes a few gaffes: DEMENTIA!
Trump talks nonsense almost every time he speaks, one gaffe after another: "That's just Trump".

Double standard?

Sure is, will they admit to it.


No way!

Here is a double standard for ya.

https://hiphopwired.com/886527/nicho...on-hate-crime/

Say why you think so?

If one person is allowed to paint on a street to voice their opinion then why isn't another person able to do the same thing? Instead they are charged with a hate crime. Really? Not like they defaced private property.

The missing context is whether the text that was defaced was put there by the civic authorities, or with permission or license. If so, then the painting over it was indeed vandalism.

If that's the case do you think it would ever fly to paint "white lives matter" or "all lives matter" on the street. Then if black people defaced it would they be charged with a hate crime?

There was a permit for the BLM street mural. Details in this link to the Martinez Tribune (found in Waggs' link): https://martineztribune.com/2020/07/...ed-as-vandals/

Whether the act described in the link was a hate crime is questionable. Simply being obnoxious or racist is not a crime. As I understand hate crimes, there must be some at least implicit threat of harm because of race, and this act of vandalism might not reach that threshold. But if the BLM mural was appropriately on the street, the act described in the article is vandalism.

Do you see the painters in the article as engaged in an act of civil disobedience?

Ok so they had a permit. I still refer you to post #7. Do you think things would happen the same way if reversed?

It appears that this administration would defend monuments to racial subjugation.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...inal-violence/

Here's another one. Would this fly with white people carying guns?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aJnvkDkoi3c

It's interesting that your response to the OP went in a racial direction.

It has and it does.

You mean like this: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/14/85591...ing-home-order

I think the means utilized in both instances were ridiculous.

You are getting worked up about how outrageous a thing would be, and forgetting that the thing has not happened, and might not happen as you imagine.

This i suppose by laws standards I have to agree with. Civil disobedience I guess. Hmm maybe they just needed 100 people to go out and do it then it's a protest and civil disobedience is just allowed then.

That "open the state protest" posted by d-ray isn't even comparable to the video I posted.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...AA66&FORM=VIRE

Yes could go different then I think it would.

We have lived in Contra Costa County, CA since 1987. Used to be very conservative and now its turning quite liberal. If someone painted "White Lives Matter" or "All Lives Matter", I would presume that most of us would laugh and walk away. I seriously doubt though if any town will grant a permit.

The annual Women's March is a huge event here that is well supported by both sexes.

BLM does not mean White Lives Don't Matter or any other human life.. It's just a reminder because they feel they are being ignored and that's because of a structured form of systemic racism.

I'll be as clean as I can... Here is the best analogy that works with BLM.

Imagine you're effing your girl and you say "you like that D" and she says "I like all D".
That's what it sounds like when you respond with WLM to BLM.

'All Lives Matter' does not mean all lives matter. It's an idiom that basically means 'When you say 'Black Lives Matter' you piss me off!' ☹

Whenever I hear ALM, wounder just it is why some matter more then others!

Conscientious individuals who engage in civil disobedience are prepared to face the consequences, including arrest. This is so, even if the law is unjust. Generally, I don't see laws against vandalism as unjust.

If they so choose, these painters can have their day in court to make whatever arguments they want about the alleged injustice of the charges against them. Maybe they will want to tell the story about how they were beaten and cursed when they were charged - but wait - that didn't happen.

Well said...I needed to hear that.

Thank-you.