Brickbat: Causing Offense

Police in Hampshire, England, arrested Darren Brady for retweeting a meme of a swastika made out of pride flags. Officers told Brady the tweet had "caused anxiety." Brady spent several hours in jail, but following a public backlash, and criticism of the officers by the department's commissioner, Brady was freed without charges, but also without an apology.

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[Vernon Depner]

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[Rossami]

And that's relevant to an article about police in England how, precisely?

[Don't look at me!]

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[Mother's Lament]

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[Brandybuck]

This the extent of most people's though processes these days. Old lady needs help across the street: fuck Joe Biden. Car runs out of gas: fuck Joe Biden. Meteor hits Mars and no one notices: fuck Joe Biden.

So generous of them to let Sleepy Joe live in their heads rent free.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

OK. Fuck Brandy.

[Agammamon]

Some complains about 'fuck Joe Biden' then it's fuck Joe Biden'.

Cry more. Letting people know it bothers you just incentives them to continue it. If you hadn't spent a year whining about let's go Brandon then people would have lost interest.

You've, ah say, you've own-goaled herself son

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hard to understand how they lost their empire.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Hard to understand how they ever got an empire.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I guess without colonials they had to direct their abuse inward.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And without a domineering monarchy, the peasants have to oppress themselves.

[Brandybuck]

Hard to understand how they held on to it for so long.

[Ted]

The French used to have balls too. Going left is a great way to neuter a society.

[Mickey Rat]

Hampshire police went out of the way to prove the accuracy of the tweet.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

^

[Jerryskids]

How much anxiety did the police cause? From the sounds of it, a hell of a lot more than the guy who upset the alphabet people. Can the cops be charged for that?

[mad.casual]

Imagine the public backlash if he'd made a meme of monkeypox out of the pride flags and it went viral.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

ICWYDT

[GroundTruth]

shall make no law ... or abridging the freedom of speech

Definitely a good idea to have put that in.

[Mother's Lament]

The Constitution isn't worth used toilet paper when the state decides to ignore it.
Canada and the UK both have laws guaranteeing freedom of speech. Canada's is constitutional. It hasn't stopped the state from infringing.

[Mickey Rat]

Canada's constitution includes some considerable caveats that essentially say rights are protected until it is inconvenient for the government to protect them. Their constitution is considerably softer than the USA's.

[Mother's Lament]

That's the meme, but it doesn't actually work like that, and doesn't cover freedom of speech.
The Canadian government is definitely violating Canada's constitution, but it doesn't care. Exactly what is going to happen in the states.

[sarcasmic]

...but also without an apology.

Power means never having to say "sorry."

[Dillinger]

wasn't it a peace symbol or something before Captain Nasty re-meaning-ed it?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

It was a Buddhist symbol originally. Don't know what the meaning was.

[GroundTruth]

Generally it's a sun sign - the sun rolling across the sky.

[Mother's Lament]

Proto-Indo-European - though it could originate with the Ancient North Eurasians as it was used by Native Americans too. Went from the urheimat, to Sintashta, to Andronovo, to Hinduism, to Buddhism.

It originally represented the sun, then the solar wheel.

[Dillinger]

"your honor, my client simply meant to recreate the solar wheel with his rainbow flags."

[GroundTruth]

The pisser is that the Nazis have ruined an ancient, universal symbol.

[Ted]

Misek is continuing that distinguished tradition.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

I'm sure he would have gotten the same treatment if it was one of those pride flags with the raised fist in the middle. Right?