[hanamizu]

“Police in Virginia are investigating a series of violently antisemitic and homophobic flyers targeting a local school board...”

---

Leaving aside the source of the flyers for a moment. I thought we had freedom of the press in this country. How can ‘hateful’, anti-Semitic, or ‘homophobic’ fliers or the posting thereof be a crime?

[Nextrush]

Pieces of papers are now defined as “violent”. Whoa.

[redpoll]

“Police in Virginia are investigating a series of violently antisemitic and homophobic flyers targeting a local school board...”

---

You made me think of something with this sentence. Since when are flyers, pamphlets, books or any other writing described as a series of objects aimed at targets? Usually, the phrase would be used for things like rockets or military movements, which seems to be the purpose - to tell the reader that what they're reading about is an attack, as in a war. Which rationalizes any response. Your other comment about First Amendment protections for all speech, including distasteful and disturbing speech, is charmingly old fashioned. Words are violence, which makes sense if you view the world as ruled by conflict between the oppressor and oppressed. (I'm hovering over the /sarc key here on the keyboard, but I think you get what I'm saying here.)