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Legislative ActionCan I ask a question here about the law?
I'm not sure if this is the right circle for this but I thought as this is where activists are they would most likely know the law.
We are increasingly seeing rainbow crossings being painted on our streets by local governments, is it illegal to chalk on them?
children chalk on pavements all the time, it just washes off in the rain, if we were to go out at night and write womens rights slogans on the crossings with chalk would that be illegal when its not a permanent defacement?
If this is in the UK you have two issues; where you write and what you write. Even chalk will be counted as criminal damage if it costs the council money to wash it off. If you chalk a slogan you could be arrested for a public order offence.
If you write something about women's rights on a rainbow crossing, you know they arent going to ignore it so either don't get caught or be prepared for the consequenses. The typical fine for flyposting is £80 per poster.
Honestly, this seems like a waste of your time. Why not write an op-ed or write to the mayor or something?
Agree, it’s just going to look dumb and “bigoted” and it’s bad enough that the t’s have taken over pride and destroyed it, alienating members of the LGB community who face actual discrimination and are facing the backlash of the t+alphabet soup’s jackassery.
Living in rural-ish SK the t+ “queer” gender fuckery have really made the more conservatives here less tolerant of gay people in general.
Lol Khan the man who wants to ban basic words from city hall and fired the female violence specialist for doing her job.
Pedestrian crossings are pieces of safety equipment. Any damage to safety equipment would be highly illegal. The fact that local councils are themselves deliberately defacing this same piece of safety equipment via painting them so as to make them ambiguous and unsafe has been pointed out as a problem, but they seem to be getting away with their vandalism. They have even been saying accidental tyre marks on these crossings are a transphobic hate crime, so I imagine they would class chalk slogans as hate crime too.
If tyre marks on a road surface are hate crimes then they better put red velvet ropes around them to stop people walking on them, walking on things is what you do to things you hate, trampling the flag.
bunch of Nazis
Blind people who complained that their guide dogs did not recognise these rainbow crossings were also called transphobic. Old people with dementia who were confused by the crossings were similarly branded as bigots.
there is one I came across about a mile or so away, I had no idea it was there I was very confused myself if it was actually a crossing for people and decided not to use it and carried on walking until I got to a real crossing.