What the kid did was socially wrong, but probably protected speech under the 1st amendment, but in no case should it be a felony.
the town should get together and lynch this mfer...
wait, white boys can’t be lynched... ugh... i guess he will get off because of his privilege...
/sarc
what he did was stupid, but not felony worthy... this is crazy justice
Does free speech include posting an image of some one without their permission on the internet and offering them for sale.
Now, suppose someone took a picture of a young girl and without her permission, posted that picture in an ad for sexual services or prostitution?
Is that free speech?
“What the kid did was socially wrong, but probably protected speech under the 1st amendment, but in no case should it be a felony.”
I agree, BUT I must point out the crucial word that you rightfully included, “socially”.
To just say it was “wrong” is ... wrong. By WHAT standard was it wrong? A “legal” standard? Maybe, but it shouldn’t be.
By a “hate crime” standard? Absolutely NOT! There is no such THING! There are crimes and there are not.
Murder is a crime. Murdering someone because you “hate” them, is still just murder.
Murdering the guy you caught in bed with your wife is still murder. What difference should it make if he were Black? NONE!
The holocaust would be or maybe IS the ultimate hate crime. What was done to the Jewish people (and others) was an abomination.
Was it any “more” so because they were Jews? NO! Would it not have been just as evil if it were Catholics? YES!
Let me just say, that one of the most moving and yes spiritual days of my life was the first time I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.
I was so “moved”, even moved to tears. It wasn’t about “Jews”. It was about evil in the world. Man’s inhumanity to man. It literally broke my heart. In the disgusting photos and videos I saw “people” not Jews. Many were human skeletons, some alive, many dead. I couldn’t tell by looking at them that they were Jewish.
I am NOT disparaging Jews!!!!! I am just pointing out that it shouldn’t be about “groups”. It shouldn’t matter that it was Jews. It’s no more or less evil because of which group it was or that it was a particular “group” at all.
Was it “wrong”, a “hate crime” to post a picture of a Black kid as a “slave for sale”?
paraphrasing the character of Jake Brigance in the amazing movie “A Time to Kill”
Now imagine that the child was “white”.
“The Most Persuasive Closing Argument EVER!”
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