Days of Broken Arrows said:From the video: "Is it free speech or hate speech?"
The fact that this question is being asked without irony shows how off-course our country has gotten. People don't seem to understand that anything can qualify as hate speech. Once you've recognized hate speech as a concept, you're on your way to getting rid of free speech.
That said, I don't think most of the people in this video understood the irony in that sign. I just think they thought "Sign bad!" like they think "Red hat bad!" We're giving them too much credit to assume they thought this through. Most Americans don't seem capable of complex thought anymore -- something exemplified by how dumbed-down popular entertainment had gotten.
A sizable percentage of the population these days are so timid and automaton that an A4 piece of paper with any message whatsoever on it duct taped to any public surface is enough to trigger their "call the authorities" response.
Ironically if you spent a few grand and made movie-poster sized messages with stylish font and colorful backgrounds that look like they were produced by a company then nobody would even look at them twice.
The immediate trigger for many drones coming across this message is that they can instantly tell it was put there by someone without the social authority to express themselves publicly. Either the authority of the state or the authority of wealth.
