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Very clever attempt here…but clumsy. -1 for the redirect attempt.
What redirect? Here's your exact scenario:
Take two flags to a city park in a liberal area. Other a crowd and tell them you’re here to burn the flag to demonstrate free speech.
First, burn the American flag. Make a speech about how this sort of thing is enshrined in the US Constitution. The crowd will nod its collective head in approval.
Then…light up a Pride flag. How does that same crowd react?
Your scenario - which you wrote - is asking the crowd about free speech. Not whether they agreed with the message being conveyed, but talking about how you're demonstrating free speech and that "this sort of thing is enshrined in the Constitution." That's your hypothetical.
Why would you think that a crowd that agreed that burning the U.S. flag is free speech that is protected by the Constitution would reach a different conclusion about a pride flag?
Did you mistakenly make your hypothetical to be about the crowd's beliefs about free speech and the constitution, rather than trying to illustrate that liberal people will react more favorably to liberal beliefs than conservative beliefs? If the latter is what you were trying to elicit, your hypothetical isn't set up for that.
And really - if that's what you were trying to get at, it's hardly much of an observation. I mean, a crowd of conservatives will react differently to someone burning a picture of AOC than to someone burning a picture of Donald Trump, too. Not because they're inconsistent on the legality or constitutionality of those acts, but because they support one message and disagree with the other. Is that what you were trying to get at?
