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Originally Posted by Waggs098
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?
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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?