I apologize, yes I can now see how this was victim blaming. Firstly I should say that I’m an outsider to US politics so I’m still trying to get to grips on what exactly is going on.

Do I understand the following correctly? The conservatives obviously made the first act of aggression by jeopardising the LGBT community’s rights. This means that any subsequent counterattacks made by the LGBT community will purely be in an effort to defend themselves, ie. to incapacitate them from further jeopardising their rights. What I fail to see is how defacing their symbol will achieve that. In the worst(?) case, it provokes them, in the best case they end up surrounded by fewer blue line flags but still an equally threatening group of conservatives. I understand that the person may have done it out of pure frustration, to feel revenge, but in that case touching somebody else’s stuff is hardly morally justifiable if it’s not a means to a greater end.

Sorry if it appears that I’m being ignorant, I’m just trying to gain an insight into what’s going on here by getting it wrong and getting corrected.