Yeah someone is making crap up. “Hate” speech is still protected under the 1st amendment. Now she is a student which has more restrictions but the term all lives matter is a nice gesture since she’s seven.
The parents will win if they go to court.
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Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 months ago“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Seems pretty straight forward to me.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Hate speech is very much not protected under the 1st amendment:
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Even your linked articlevsays it is. You just cant make specific and clear threats that you have the ability to follow through on.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Correct.
What the kid said won’t pass the sniff test in court. It’s overly restrictive on political ideology.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Then you weren’t reading clearly. Here’s another source directly from the US Courts:
If you still can’t figure it out from this, then there’s just no getting through to you at all. That’s nobody’s problem but your own.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Then you misunderstand, because years of legal precedent disagree lol.