D.C. police investigating vandalism to Teslas as possible hate crimes

[chowmama]

20. We're actually allowed to hate, loathe and despise people as individuals.

Even if they are members of a protected class, as long as the emotion isn't inspired by their membership in said class. Good thing, too - I've found that there isn't a class in the world without their normal human percentage of total assholes. We are free to acknowledge their personal asshole-ness whenever appropriate and it's perfectly legal. Stating that every member of the group is scum is not only inaccurate in the extreme, it's totally illegal. Simple distinction, right?

We've fallen through the looking glass and the Reich Wing wants words to mean whatever they want them to mean. I'm not cooperating. Words already have meaning. Real meaning.

So when I want to say that Musk isn't worth space, oxygen, or my personal time, I will say so. He may feel he's in a class by himself, and his mommy may agree with him, but that class is not protected. I can say it in his mother tongue (Hai, Musk - fok weg!). I can let him know I find him personally repulsive on every possible level. I can malign him, anybody that looks like him, the horse he rode in on, and anybody that looks like the horse he rode in on.

And he can do it right back if he wants to. It's called free speech. It's also protected speech.

So, Hai, Musk - fok weg! And your vehicles suck swamp gas. I fart in your general direction.