Back when Vietnam was a thing, some awesome students made law by wearing protest armbands to school. When they were forced to remove them, they sued. This lead directly to the Supreme Court telling us:
First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. This has been the unmistakable holding of this Court for almost 50 years.
Unfortunately, this ruling has, in many ways, been eroded over the subsequent decades. For instance, in Fraser v. Bethel School District, a young man gave a rather racy speech in support of his friend's bid for student body president. Check it out:
"'I know a man who is firm -- he's firm in his pants, he's firm in his shirt, his character is firm -- but most . . . of all, his belief in you, the students of Bethel, is firm.
"'Jeff Kuhlman is a man who takes his point and pounds it in. If necessary, he'll take an issue and nail it to the wall. He doesn't attack things in spurts -- he drives hard, pushing and pushing until finally -- he succeeds.
"'Jeff is a man who will go to the very end -- even the climax, for each and every one of you.
"'So vote for Jeff for A. S. B. vice-president -- he'll never come between you and the best our high school can be.'"
Unfortunately, of all the justices, only Brennan really had a sense of humor.
The Court, referring to these remarks as "obscene," "vulgar," "lewd," and "offensively lewd," concludes that school officials properly punished respondent for uttering the speech. Having read the full text of respondent's remarks, I find it difficult to believe that it is the same speech the Court describes. To my mind, the most that can be said about respondent's speech -- and all that need be said -- is that in light of the discretion school officials have to teach high school students how to conduct civil and effective public discourse, and to prevent disruption of school educational activities, it was not unconstitutional for school officials to conclude, under the circumstances of this case, that respondent's remarks exceeded permissible limits. Thus, while I concur in the Court's judgment, I write separately to express my understanding of the breadth of the Court's holding....
And only Stevens is awesome;
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
So chatters, what do
you think about free speech in schools? What about, for instance, hateful or harassing speech? Recently kids in Chicago were prevented from wearing "straight pride" shirts with violent passages from Leviticus on them. What's that all about?
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Eisenhower wasn't an asshole :?
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I like this comparison!
Is the direct sunlight in the winter actually warmer because the sun is closer to the earth despite the tilt of the earth?
You're still going to get in trouble if you go around saying "Fags must all die!"
Haven't read the book, but that's pretty much what I've heard.
Quit yer bellyaching.
OH SHI-
naw I haven't even read the books and my memories of the movie have been mauled by watching the "sequel"
I, uh, what?
No. Heat depends on the angle between the sun and that particular spot on the earth. If it were a matter of distance, we'd have the same season everywhere on the planet all year long.
And in the case of Tinker they make it clear that it only applies to passive speech that doesn't impact others. In this case, calling for a groups death during a tolerance event removes Tinker from the whole equation. That's why the vast majority of free-speech cases go against students. Want to not say the pledge of allegiance? Tinker protects you as a student. Want to go against the schools curriculum? Tinker doesn't apply.
Calling for the death of a group of students pretty clearly infringes upon their right to be free from harassment. Again, from Tinker:
I know, right
This is pretty much how Fred Phelps makes a living
then the video of everyone going nuts after that world cup goal
would have been better
the god thing was still an asshole move
do you think you might be up for more smash this weekend
Depends how you do it.
It's no crime if I say "we should amend the constitution to re-criminalize sodomy, with a punishment of death."
Well, it's a matter of both, but the angle is far far more powerful an effector.
You are bad at math
I think the issue that people who like the book get into is buying into the movie, forgetting its directed by Verhoven who loves satire.
People who like Starship Troopers for the jingoistic message are scary though.
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And schools can punish students for doing things that are not against the law.
I mean to say the solar radiation at one point would be greater. I know the over all irradiation is definitely higher.
The soviet national anthem was so awesome they just changed the lyrics to get rid of the communism.
The additional distance that the light has to travel through vacuum when it comes to seasons is irrelevant because the distance from the earth to the sun is so much greater.
fuckin' swarmed by these guys and oh jesus I can't punch fast enough
cost me like 20 stimpacks to get through this damn cave and there wasn't anything good!
I do not understand. There are two Misters. THe total value of his name is Mister*2. Or Mister + Mister.
No, it's Mister*Mister, or Mister^2.
The sense of passivity relevant here is a more literal one. Namely, that they are wearing an armband rather than, say, shouting from atop a lunchtable. Wearing a shirt falls into the exact same category.
"The right to be free from harassment?" I mean, if you are just saying that wearing such a shirt legally qualifies as harassment, then yes, the school can interfere with it. But I doubt that it does. And there is no right to be free from harassment in a vague, or broad sense, wherein you are shielded from ideas you find distasteful or repulsive.
... during winter in both hemispheres?
No he is MrMr not Mr + Mr
Mr + Mr = 2Mr
MrMr = Mr^2
How is it Mister*Mister? I only see two Misters.
The thing is, while I disagree with the book, it made its points forthrightly. I thought Verhoeven's "satire" was really childish, ignorant, and super-hamfisted by comparison. I couldn't believe it was the same guy who directed Robocop, which is an infinitely more confidently-made and better movie.