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I'm from Louisiana and I know what it means...:rofl
Wow. Those ol'Southern manners have certainly gone to ****, haven't they? :rofl
I'm from Louisiana and I know what it means...:rofl
Would she not have been arrested if she did this at home.
If she burned books at school then that would call for suspension and possibly charged with arson and the destruction of school property assuming the Koran belonged to the school.
Would a student be arrested for wearing a KKK or nazi uniform in school? Maybe in eurotrash countries that do not value free speech, but not here in the US.
YES What do you think? Are you honestly that partisan, do you honestly believe police would break into someone's home to arrest them for this?
What do you mean "if" she was at school the news article clearly says she was at school, there is no if.
Yes here in the US someone could be arrested, personally if I was a school principal I would not arrest a student for wearing a nazi or KKK uniform, or for burning a Koran. I would have simply sent them home, so I think the principal overreacted. HOWEVER its impossible to believe that any behavior like this is normally tolerated on school campuses.
So?
I don't make it a habit to google and keep up to date on what is the new 'in' word to insult Black people with :roll:
And, right after that, you should be fired.
Its a book and nothing more that.
Every single human being is descended from Africa.
Talk about some stuff you didn't know.
YES What do you think? Are you honestly that partisan, do you honestly believe police would break into someone's home to arrest them for this?
What do you mean "if" she was at school the news article clearly says she was at school, there is no if.
Yes here in the US someone could be arrested,personally if I was a school principal I would not arrest a student for wearing a nazi or KKK uniform, or for burning a Koran.
She still would have been arrested for burning a Koran.I would have simply sent them home, so I think the principal overreacted.
It's an idea. And the only way to destroy an idea is to destroy the people who believe in it. Burning books is the behavior of subhumans and degenerates, and whether it is "protected speech" or not, civilized society should at the very least view it with some distaste.
Actually, if someone was familiar with the movie Lethal Weapon 2, then they would know that it was a bad word for blacks. The white South Africans in that movie used it a couple of times towards Murtaugh (Danny Glover's character).
Now, I personally don't know what the original usage of the word was intended for in this thread, but it really isn't something to fight over. And perfectly reasonable for someone not to know that it has been used as a racist word before.
It's an idea. And the only way to destroy an idea is to destroy the people who believe in it. Burning books is the behavior of subhumans and degenerates, and whether it is "protected speech" or not, civilized society should at the very least view it with some distaste.
Right. Europeans. Not "some other country," and certainly not the sort of place where they people stoned to death.
Europeans are civilized, even if we disagree with their interpretation of freedom.
As such, if we're going to tell them to STFU about our business, we should STFU about theirs.
It's an idea. And the only way to destroy an idea is to destroy the people who believe in it.
Burning a book does not destroy people who believe in it. It would be like saying burning a stack of crappy romance novels is like destroying women who read that crap. Books are pieces of paper with words written on them and nothing more. To say they are something more is to elevate them to something they are not.
The US does not have hate speech laws.
Burning a book does not destroy people who believe in it. It would be like saying burning a stack of crappy romance novels is like destroying women who read that crap. Books are pieces of paper with words written on them and nothing more. To say they are something more is to elevate them to something they are not.
Arresting someone for hate speech is no different than arresting someone for blasphemy or at least a step below that.As civilized countries we should frown upon hate speech laws.
I don't think you understand US hate speech laws. In the US, hate speech is constituted by speech which calls directly for violence against a group. Preaching intolerance (witness: Westboro Baptist Church) is not outlawed. Outlawed is saying "kill them".
Sure, in some European countries hate speech laws include being rude about a funny stereotype, or displaying a flag - but not in the US. One must call for actual harm against a group before we say "ok, your right is infringing on ours to much".
Too bad she wasn't simply advocating the killing and subjugation of people instead of indulging in symbolic protest. She would have been given free television time to promote her politically correct hatred instead of being arrested.
Radical Muslims given Channel 4 slot - Telegraph
Britain, and indeed Western Europe, is going down the tubes even more rapidly than predicted. It is a lesson for every other democracy in the free world.
At least they got a good shot of this guy picking his nose.
Do you really think there's no problem with a student burning a book in school? Heck it doesn't have to be the Koran or the Bible, it can be anything. Its the act of setting fire to an object while at school which is the undeniable fact.
Burning books destroys the ideas within, for those who have not read them as well as for future generations.
Books are ideas, and burning them, or censoring them, is an attempt to discourage those ideas. It is the powerful trying to control the less powerful.
But such was not the case with this young girl in Britain.
I don't think you understand US hate speech laws. In the US, hate speech is constituted by speech which calls directly for violence against a group. Preaching intolerance (witness: Westboro Baptist Church) is not outlawed. Outlawed is saying "kill them".
It's not like arresting someone for blasphemy or a step above. In fact, it has nothing to do with ideology - so your blasphemy comparison is right out. It's exactly like arresting someone for calling for the killing/harming of a group.
ps. In your "Location:", could you please put an 's' at the end of "exist", or is it some kind of quote and I'm just ig'nant.