Oohhhhh, I get it. They're going to pass legislation to treat nooses as a hate crime. And drawings of nooses. And paintings of nooses. Presumably, they're going to ban any noose in any form.
No noose is good noose?
I know, that was stupid, but not as stupid as the New York legislature, apparently. Once again, a lawmaking body has tasked itself with whittling away at our Constitutional right to freedom of expression.
Just remember:
First they came for the nooses, and I said nothing, because I'm not a KKK moron.
Next, they came for the swastikas, and I said nothing, because I'm not, well, a KKK moron.
Next, they came for other things someone might find offensive, so Dancing With the Stars was removed from the air, and I said nothing, for I am not a brainless twit.
Finally, they came for bloggers...
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whittling away at our Constitutional right to freedom of expression.
I disagree with Virginia v. Black, but it is good law. And there's no reason to say that burning a cross with the intent to intimidate can be a crime, but hanging a noose with the intent to intimidate can't. And of course it was Scalia and Thomas who didn't want there to have to be a burden on the prosecution to prove the intent to intimidatel; they wanted the cross-burning itself to be a crime and the defendant had to prove that he didn't mean to intimidate anyone. (Proving a negative, always fun...)
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