> If it was a swastika or the n-word I would be very concerned about the nature of the community in that neighbourhood and if I'm in danger.

If you lived in a large city like NY or London and you saw a random swastika, your immediate reaction would be to blame your neighbors? How do you know it wasn’t someone from somewhere else?

> If you really need the authorities to tell your community that swastika graffiti should make them angry and call them to action, then your community is screwed already.

Hopefully nobody needs the authorities to tell them things, but they do need authorities to help them enforce already agreed-upon laws. I can’t spent my time running around cleaning up all the graffiti.

Do you think it should be the duty of citizens to stop bank robbers, too?

> Either way, yeah just as we have laws to deal with incitement to violence and hatespeech we can have that with walls if you'd prefer, it just has to be sth actually extreme and targeted.

We literally already have this which is why vandalism is ILLEGAL, but your previous comments were completely dismissive of this!

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Seriously, this is like Basic Empathy and Human Emotions 101. Imagine yourself seeing the n-word written several times around your city. Contemplate the anger that you would feel, the desire for someone to do something about it, the realization that even if you dedicated all your free time to finding and stopping these people you probably couldn’t do it yourself. Now replace “n-word” with something someone else finds deeply offensive and imagine yourself as them. Do you STILL think graffiti is totally harmless, or justified as long as you’re vandalizing a megacorp?