Hating paint
I came across a strange article yesterday.
There is a pedestrian crossing in Derry that has been painted with rainbow colours. Now I would imagine that this is an illegal act as such things as pedestrian crossings are usually defined very precisely in law. For example the law would state that a crossing has to be indicated by alternate black and white rectangles of appropriate dimensions with the appropriate lighting on each pavement. They can be quite strict about these things, so I would imagine that rainbow stripes would in themselves be an illegal act.
I gather that this strange appropriation of the rainbow is supposed to be a “celebration of the LGBQXYZ+ community”? Does that community have a legal and exclusive right to those colours? Does it assume that the rest of us are a drab black, white and grey mob? If so I would class that as discrimination.
Anyhows, someone has dribbled some white paint across this crossing. Maybe they didn’t realise their tin of white paint was leaking as they crossed the road or maybe they were blessing the crossing with holy white paint. That shall remain a mystery.
What struck me though was the response to this little dribble of paint. Apparently it’s a Hate Crime. A fucking hate crime? Can paint hate?
What’s next? If I paint my house white is that a hate crime? Is it discrimination against the blacks in society? Is black and white print in a book an indication of hatred towards the gay community and an incitement to violence?
We live in a horribly strange world.
Trannies demand ban on Rothko paintings. And Mondrian needs to be very careful.
Maybe Jackson Pollock’s ghost was visiting Derry?
Grandad, I’m no lawyer but what you describe is a zebra crossing and few exist now. The crossing in your picture is not a zebra crossing so I’d guess that there is no definition of what should be on the road (apart from the studs/road markings), and that’s how these goons must get around the law.
There is no copyright on the rainbow colours. The same sequence is used for many things – the resistor colour code for one, though in the faggot flag black, brown and white are missing – well the crossing has white. Isn’t it amazing, that a flag that is meant to represent inclusivity has no black brown or white?
Pedantry alert.
White has all the colours of the rainbow in it. See dark side of the moon. So is the epitome of inclusive.
Black is complete absence of any colour. See the road runner.
It depends on whether you are talking about radiated or absorbed light. All radiated colours will produce white while all absorbed colours will produce black. Road Runner?
I already know this, however the problem is, since light produces colour by its frequency, it doesn’t work with paint. Paint just does what it says on the tin.
Funny how the weak willed and entitled define ‘Hate’ isn’t it?
Apparently they can stuff their rancid philosophies in everyone’s face, but when anyone protests, then it’s automatically ‘Hate’.
Some organic life forms have no sense of proportion.
Are you sure it’s paint on those sodomy stripes? If a “pride parade” has passed by I wouldn’t be too sure.
They’d best make the most of it though, as it can’t be too long before arse bandits are publically flogged.
The pendulum has swung much too far and when it swings back….
I’m in Wellington NZ and we’ve had a pride crossing for years, it has horizontal rainbow stripes so your Irish crossing is triggering our team of 5,000,000. If you don’t repaint it I’m going to hold my breath until I turn blue (or rainbow)