Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/04/swastikas-painted-on-cars-and.html
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Well they gotta give some slack to their buddies.
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Ah yes. Tagging, for that up and coming Nazi gang. Hitler youth will be Hitler youth. What can you do?
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To be fair, it depends where the swastikas were painted. Put them on cop cars, for instance, and you’re calling them Nazis.
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professional courtesy
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Spend one day in San Bernardino County, and you’ll be pleased to find a Nazi / White Nationalist around every corner.
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WTF?? Seriously, how is this not a hate crime. Swastikas are not generally signs of the Welcome Wagon, dudes.
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Its a thing all over, but at least in France they recognize it for what it is.
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Why do people who paint swastikas are never able to draw the “right” one?
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Generations of inbreeding.
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Neonazis. They are fascists newbies…
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You answered your own question here with the link to an actual hate crime. Sure most crime is hateful, and most people hate swastikas but arbitrarily defacing property with swastikas is not a “hate crime”.
Now if the swastikas showed up only on property owned by people of the Jewish faith, or only the Rabbis car, at the synagogue, or at a Jewish cemetery, like in your link, this would be a hate crime in San Bernardino just the same as it is in France.
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Get ready for a lot more of this if Il Douche gets a second term. His “win” in 2016 was a great big “all clear” sign to anti-Semites everywhere.
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The FBI defines a hate crime as “a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.” Arbitrarily defacing property with drawings of puppies might not be a “hate crime,” but defacing property with the symbol of the most notorious racist cause of the last century certainly is.
The only way to argue this isn’t a hate crime is to suggest the vandals have no idea what the swastika represents to the people likely to see it. You’d have to be hopelessly naive to think this particular brand of vandalism wasn’t intended to intimidate people based on race, color or creed.
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The “hate” in “hate crime” isn’t about whether people hate swastikas.
What is wrong with you?
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No, just no. Posting swastikas all around a neighborhood is clearly intimidation of any non-straight, non-white, non-christian, immigrant, and the list goes on. Posting white supremacist shit is hate. You may argue “crime” based on how the law is written, but no, you cannot argue “hate” when the symbol has stood for 70 years for the deaths of anyone defined as outgroup.
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You’ve got a high bar.
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I’m expecting the culprit to turn out to be some teenage edge lord trying to get back at someone, or society in general, for some perceived slight… so a Nazi, I guess. If this is correct, I hope someone hugs the loneliness out of him.
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Agreed. Context, of course, is all-important ^^’ .
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