Not to mention the point that Paula Deen is selling an image, and that image got blown. Sorry folks, she lost her job as America's lovable grandma when she NOT ONLY used the n word, but glorified the 'good old days' (read: slavery), and allowed for a hostile working environment for women and minorities.
Oh, and Lil Wayne is also selling an image, and uh...this doesn't ruin that image.
With the caption "So if you come into my country and beg for money can you please have someone help you fill out this sign correctly?"
So we can assume the signholder wasn't a blue-eyed blonde. (But that would be okay to have a blue-eyed-blonde who would write like this because "Aryan Nation, Fuck Yeah!")
Somebody needs to go back to high school civics and revisit "hate speech" versus "political speech/protest."
It wasn't even a political statement! The flag was supposed to fall down behind him in the video and it caught weird. Stepping on it was an accident!
I don't really follow pop culture and have no idea who the man in the picture is or the story behind it, but the Court has been very clear on this distinction. The people who post this are also suffering the logical fallacy of false equivalence.
I've had that one popping up too kaybee85. It bums me out, too, because it is being posted by people I didn't really expect this from. I wish I would have thought about the political speech vs hate speech and known that it was an accident when I saw it pop up the first time!
Somebody needs to go back to high school civics and revisit "hate speech" versus "political speech/protest."
It wasn't even a political statement! The flag was supposed to fall down behind him in the video and it caught weird. Stepping on it was an accident!
I agree about his image v. her image and hate speech v. political speech, but I think the flag code says something about it touching the ground too, so even w/o the stepping it's not 100% in line with preferred practice.