• Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If a book is important to one or more ethnic groups, burning it is a hate crime, period. Being mass produced has nothing to go with it.

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        1 year ago

        To answer your rhetoric question: Because people believe in it for some reason. If millions of people were crazy enough to think Star Wars happened and molded their lives after it, and you started burning Star Wars DVDs because you despise Star Warite refugees, yes, people would be very upset at you for doing that.

        People are clearly burning religious text to demonstrate their contempt to a group of people, it’s the definition of a hate crime.

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      1 year ago

      Islam isn’t an ethnic group, and your logic is insane.

      Can’t burn a dictionary cause one or more ethnic groups consider it important. Or the Bible.

      Hate crime? Jesus get a grip.

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              1 year ago

              If you don’t understand why this refutes your comment, then you just need to keep re-reading it.

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                1 year ago

                Or maybe you (and others here) need to re-read my response to understand what the point of it was. I understand what the person was saying, just don’t think bickering over how the Jewish people are a “multinational ethnic group” is relevant to the discussion.

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      1 year ago

      Not really true, but I guess it depends on the country.

      In the United States at least, burning your own book, flag, or whatever is legally protected free speech. Just as long as you aren’t destroying someone else’s property.

      Context also matters. Burning bibles during a religious service is probably a thin line.