It’s a hate flag, no less than the Confederate or Nazi flags, but they’re allowed too — in your window at home, or on the bumper of your personal car.
This, though, is vile —
… Tensions began when the Springfield Township Police Department incorporated the “thin blue line” flag into its official logo in 2021. …
In this, and the vast majority of other situations: it literally is. Especially when your fallback is an appeal to how our average compatriot would react. How do you not make that connection?