Context is, as always, everything. Burning crosses on the lawn of a black person is not acceptable. Because it is a provocation and a symbol of hatred.
Now, in this case, he was doing it in front of a memorial. So obviously that is a provocation and done as a symbol of hatred.
But if, for example, an Afghan woman burned a Quran in central Manchester to protest the way women are treated in Afghanistan? She would have my full support.
Context is, as always, everything. Burning crosses on the lawn of a black person is not acceptable. Because it is a provocation and a symbol of hatred.
They literally burn crosses in England every year in a way that is not intended to convey racism and no one thinks of it that way.
Now, in this case, he was doing it in front of a memorial. So obviously that is a provocation and done as a symbol of hatred.
But if, for example, an Afghan woman burned a Quran in central Manchester to protest the way women are treated in Afghanistan? She would have my full support.