Posted on 02/29/2016 7:39:12 AM PST by simpson96
INDIO (CBSLA.com) - Students displaying anti-LGBT stickers at a high school in Indio have touched off a debate: is that free speech or hate speech?
The stickers show a rainbow - the symbol of the gay community - with a line crossing through it. Officials said the stickers have increasingly shown up over the past two weeks on some students’ school ID badges at Shadow Hills High School, as well as on social media websites.
The increasing number of the stickers caused an outcry at the school among students and faculty. Many called it hate speech. Shadow Hills senior and vice president of the Gay Straight Alliance Michelle Bachman said on Twitter that the stickers were "definitely hate speech, but legally, we can’t do anything until these students start to physically harass us, which I believe is an injustice."
School district administrators said the students have the right to display the stickers, just as pro-LGBT students would.
In an email sent to staff Wednesday, Desert Sands Unified School District administrators wrote, "After consulting with district level personnel and our legal counsel, it was determined that these students do have the protected right to freedom of speech, just as students portraying rainbows in support of the LGBT would."
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You just know they were hoping for an excuse to stomp on anyone who happens to disagree.
She's revealing her victimhood mentality. She wants to be harassed, so she can complain and further her agenda.
Mostly faculty, I bet.
Another false flag attack? We get so much of that from the “gay” community.
if a conservative does it, it’s hate speech, if a progressive does it, it’s free speech.
why not wear a rainbow pin as in, i believe in the covenant that God has given us, not to flood the earth because of such disgusting behaviour...
nothing irritates more than someone hijacking your “symbol”
“School district administrators said the students have the right to display the stickers, just as pro-LGBT students would.”
How do we know that we aren't being sold a bill of goods, here? Maybe the stickers read, "Male and female, He created them. - Gen. 5:2"
Regards,
Only libel, slander and fighting words are not protected by the First amendment (for now at least) so unless it is one of those its Free speech.
I find many things to be hatefully said or even hateful in meaning that does not make them what the american left calls hate speech.
It does not sound like that as it is not strident enough. A false flag would involve feigned threats to kill or threats written in feces on the wall - something very dramatic. A sticker is not attention grabbing, so it is really a non-starter for drama queens.
No text, just a rainbow with a line through it, according to the excerpt.
That is a great idea!!
If someone promotes something, free speech gives us the right to counter their proposal.
Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance.
I was just pointing out that the school deserves some credit for not bending over.
Maybe this will become a trend - ?
“hate”: Anything that a left wing lunatic disagrees with.
Hate Speech? Free Speech? Or Pre-planned fake “hate crime?”
“Free speech or hate speech.”
That’s rich. There’s an assumption it must be an “or” and can’t be an “and”. They “agreed” it was hate speech - sorry, that is an opinion. Even if it is, it is also FREE SPEECH. The fact that they’re trying to put the two into different categories, one that is allowed and one that is not, demonstrates they don’t understand free speech at all.
So, "many" approve of the disease-ridden child-molesters?
Free speech is going to be gone within a generation, maybe sooner.
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