"Leftist"? Nowhere in the tweet was it specified that the guys or the user were left leaning. So you just admitted that in your eyes, being right wing equals being anti gay rights. By extension, anti human rights. Well isn't that telling, and you're one to talk about projection. Oh the irony.

Totally fine with the "two people's experiences aren't the same thing" but I have experienced serious double standards, people who were attacked by animals are usually permitted to be afraid whilst people who were attacked by people aren't, is all I'm saying.

I was raped when I was just seven year old. Do I just jump in fear and pull out a crucifix whenever I see a man? No.
Him judging all dogs by one bad experience is a problem indeed and a big personality flaw. But in my experience, people whose scars are visible are usually more coddled and therefore more likely to stay in this generalizing mindset than people whose scars are internal.

If you like change, then yeah, wigs are awesome, especially since you can wear different styles with different outfits which is cool. I'm kinda conservative (in other words, afraid that change is gonna fuck me up and I'm gonna look like a tool) about my hair so the only big change I ever did was cutting it from mid-back to shoulder lenght lol
Though I think that maybe it also has something to do with the fact that in the past, African American women have been shamed for their natural hair (there's a bunch of articles about girls being sent home to "fix their hair" because they had natural afro hair, in some cases this bias was even reflected in the schools' dress code, and some of those articles are even from 2017!) and some women tried to hide it with wigs or used straighteners which of course is not healthy for the hair. Hopefully, this terrible shaming is a thing of the past, people of any and all shapes, colors and backgrounds shouldn't be shamed for their natural look <3

Oooh ok, I see. I suppose naturally curly hair is a little harder to work with, then a wig makes sense.

Hmm, no I think it is a relevant argument to compare them, because it helps people realize that the gap between our morals/common sense and the law may be a lot bigger than we imagine.

Yes there is. In the US, drug related crimes are so overly punished it's ridiculous. Selling a chemical substance can get you a lot more years in jail than actually violating a person's body without their consent, and I'm not talking only about the Turner case. It's fucked up in principle and it's well demonstrated by these two cases but they aren't the only representation of it.
"Prison sentences for rape are not uniform. A study made by the U.S. Department of Justice of prison releases in 1992, involving about 80 percent of the prison population, found that the average sentence for convicted rapists was 9.8 years, while the actual time served was 5.4 years."
ONLY 5 YEARS. That's ridiculous!
The guy in the post got the same punishment as a murderer could get. Don't tell me there isn't any point in pointing that out.

Literally nobody said they're more enlightened. It seems like your whole part in this thread is you feeling attacked by a strawman you made up.

Yes. I just don't get why you're so offended by all this. Nobody's attacking you, or the country. They're saying "hey here's a problem, let's fix it" and even if you disagree with that and think they're just pretentious, I don't get why you're so touchy about it.

Insulting people you disagree with will surely make me think that you're a reasonable, totally not overly nationalistic person. Yeah.
Even if they're not right, why should they be stopped from expressing their opinion? Isn't freedom of speech one of the core values y'all are supposed to fight for?

You got offended because someone disrespected a funky coloured piece of cloth. How that's not over the top is beyond me.
Not to mention, people protest because they want to make the country better. They don't disrespect the country by any means, they just want certain aspects of it to improve, and they're expressing their opinion as peacefully and calmly as is humanly possible. You feel personally attacked by people who are trying to make the country a better place for everyone, really?

Have you ever seen any of her shows or read her tweets?
Even the tweet in the post up here shows it.

Good point, @guest. Especially since the protest was/is about police brutality, not about the troops. I really don't see how soldiers would get offended when someone protests to point out problems within the police force, those are two separate areas.
@famousone The thing is, it's divisive because people like you said it's divisive. I'm pretty sure most people agree with limiting police brutality, no matter their political leaning. But some people, as I mentioned before, got offended seemingly for no reason and called it disrespectful. Why? It's the mildest form of protest AND it's likely most people in the audience already agree with you! It seems to me like they value a symbol over all the lost lives (both in war and to trigger happy cops), and to me that's just majorly fucked up. But I'm not American and we don't really do this over the top patriotism thing here so maybe it's just me.

I've seen a bit of news about it and the way it looks to me right now, is that the bosses didn't have an explicit problem with that. After all, it's probably the mildest form of protest ever. But out of curiosity I watched a bunch of conservative outlets talk about it and they mostly mentioned the "yer disrespecting our flag, country, troops blah blah blah"

@guest No, freedom of speech means you can insult people, but they can absolutely insult you back. This is what so many people don't get, especially Fox News pundits and self-proclaimed "free speech warriors" (many of which are also self-proclaimed "anti-SJWs") like Tomi Lahren and her ilk who defend people like Richard Spencer but then say kneeling when the national anthem plays is literally treason because "hurr durr you're disrespecting the flag".