Burn the American flag? Freedom of speech. Burn a Mexican flag? Hate crime. Mussies torture and kill, meh. Mention that mussies torture and kill, hate speech.
Some brain dead HS pot smoker or crack head scratched a swastika half inch in diameter into the paint of my car that my son took to school. The moron scratched around a dozen cars in the parking lot and there was a to do about it. Mine was the only swastika. I called the assistant principle in charge of such things and described the offending mark. Big mistake. He started to go on about HATE CRIMES. I told him on no uncertain terms that the damage to the cars paint is the ONLY THING I was upset about. “This is not 1984 or Brave New World”. I said “ We don’t have THOUGHT CRIMES”. This dooooshbag assistant principal wanted to call the police about the HATE Crime. I insisted I had no intention of charging whoever it was with a hate crime. We’re not Jewish and even if we were, I would not, no could not, abide the whole thought crime thing.
They never caught the kid though they thought they knew who it was and we rode around with a Dodge Intrepid for 6 months or so with a minuscule crooked cross on the windshield pillar. We had a dent fixed and asked the body guy to touch up the Nazi symbol. I liked it though. It reminded me of WW 2 P-51s with a swastika for every Messerschmidt shot down.