“Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor,”
This is clearly unconstitutional. As written a Black man who called a white man a honkey could be arrested. Similarly a Black man who said bad things about a Korean store owner could be arrested.
That's literally the definition of what the 1st Amendment protects. Free speech means that anyone can say anything without having to have their speech approved by some thought police.
Now we all should condemn the shouting of racial slurs. It would even be grounds for a school to expel them. But it's most certainly not a criminal action.
Interestingly it was the UConn NAACP chapter that wrote to the campus newspaper saying that the incident be investigated and the proper justice be applied.
I wonder if two Black students called white men honkies if the NAACP would say that they should be punished?
Interestingly it was the UConn NAACP chapter that wrote to the campus newspaper saying that the incident be investigated and the proper justice be applied.
I wonder if two Black students called white men honkies if the NAACP would say that they should be punished?
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