These are 4 words etched into a gate in Central Park, not a 10 point plan to tackle criminal justice and world issues. Every entrance gate has words etched on to them and now this one does too. This isn't trying to be anything other than what it is - recognizing a group of people in a georgraphically significant location.

Honestly arguments like this are exhausting. We can walk and chew gum. We can commission art and signs and still work on fixing larger systems.

That's funny because people take photos in front of Gay Street every minute of every day, because it brings them joy and they want to share. Just because you have no personal stake in an issue doesn't mean it's not important.

>Least likely to harm their or anyone’s kids

What is this worst salad even trying to say?

You're right, the right wing should focus all their attention on the people least likely to harm their or anyone's kids to divert attention. That'll really Save The Children!

The city unions have been beyond useless, especially the last few years. Watch them roll over for Adams and fuck over workers then tweet about how they're #GettingStuffDone or some nonsense.

Medicare Advantage is a scam. If you're young and think stuff like this doesn't apply to you, just know it will eventually. Let stuff like this slide and by the time we retire we'll have no options left.

American children are at most danger in their own homes from their own family members. Why are you all projecting so hard? The calls coming from inside the house.

It literally links to the tweet with images of what was written. You wanted them to quote the hate speech that was written? Journalists tend to avoid doing that for obvious reasons.

And no, the terms don't mean different things to different people. They're calling him those things because he is gay.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups and hate crimes, has well documented show these right wing groups have been targeting LGBTQ people by calling them "groomers" and "pedos." This isn't up to interpretation.

It says exactly what happens, including subsequent arrested, and provides Twitter links for more insight.

You can thank our own City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino for bringing this topic to NYC and actively engaging in the same hate speech among her gay colleagues.

You're being dense.

If you refuse to acknowledge that things that can be washed away are considered vandalism, feel free to look up hate crime laws in this state.

I'm not sure why you're yelling on caps and speaking in circles. They didn't target "all of them" they targeted a gay city council member.

You think writing hate speech and slurs outside the home of a gay politician is the same as kids drawing a hop scotch game?

I did. Did you?

I don't see the statement from the hate group to the media about how they're going after All Of Them.

He's a city elected official. And what are they targeting "them" for? Is Vickie Paladino also having this same group break into her home, assault her neighbors and write hate speech outside the door?

Who is "them"?

The legal definition of vandalism includes defacing. It includes things that require cleaning as well as repair.

So you agree the police in NYC and elsewhere have not been defunded, right?

I read exactly what you wrote. You posed that if hate speech can be "washed away with rain" , then it's somehow not vandalism and not a criminal act. Vandalism doesn't need to be destruction, it can also be defacing.

Did the NYPD ever get defunded??

Sounds like a fever dream the right wing glommed on to and pretended was actually a threat. Anyway, how about the NYPD budget that is larger this year than it's ever been, and will be even bigger next year!

People criticizing the NYPD for doing a bad job want them to do a better job, actually. Like investigating and arresting people who commit hate crimes. This whole "well don't criticize cops if you want them to do what they're being paid to do" strawman is so tired.

If someone smears shit on your doorstep because they don't like that you're gay or black or any other protected category, is that OK because it can just be washed away?

This is an awful big reach to excuse people showing up to someone's house in the dark of night, attempting to break in, assaulting his neighbors and writing hate speech targeting him outside his home.

This is the second comment I've seen suggesting that hate speech and slurs on your home or workplace don't count if they're written in chalk. That's a new one.

Oh wow, they did spell his name wrong throughout! Good catch. It is in fact Erik Bottcher. He documented the whole event on his Twitter account

Correct. There is lax oversight, almost no real audits and the only qualification is 50% stake held by people who qualify in the category, with zero care for how diverse the actual company is. People will find wives or figurehead "owners" to put on paperwork to snag contracts, to the detriment of actual minority and women owned businesses.