This is why I can't make an account over there too, I need my slurs damn it!
So he was arrested for harassing them and making threats and generally being a dickhead.Y'all faggots don't have google?
California police arrest suspect in anti-Asian hate incidents over the holiday weekend
The San Ramon Police Department is investigating anti-Asian incidents at an In-N-Out Burger and a store in the East Bay area.abcnews.go.com
Sounds like the dude was legitimately out there causing a scene and then waiting outside the burger joint after he got kicked out, trying to make people feel threatened. It's trifling as fuck to try and slap hate crime enhancements on petty charges like disorderly conduct, but the First Amendment only protects the content of your speech.
It possibly could, but the thing about speech is it's the primary way we communicate as human beings. Your opinions might be protected but when you walk up on a bunch of strangers and start gibbering shit about them being yellow monkeys or whatever it communicates your intention to harass and disturb them a lot quicker than if you just stinkeye them.
Yes, but my point was that perhaps his arrest wouldn’t necessarily affront the 1A if he was in fact physically intimidating that couple and making them feel frightened.
I assume he would get the same treatment if he was using no slurs at all.
No, and I'm not denying it's a serious issue when lawless pigs deliberately violate the most basic laws of the country. You're just way more likely to see that kind of nonsense in California and have to take it to federal court to smack down those pigs. And of course there's also the issue that a lot of people simply don't have the resources to fight something like this all the way.
I still generally disagree with unevenly-enforced "hate crimes" statutes that inordinately punish even already criminal conduct because someone committed wrongthink while doing it. I have just seen too many cases where a black criminal beats up a white person, literally explicitly saying it's because they're white, and the pigs pretend it isn't a "hate crime."
They upped the ante not too long ago (right after I said the site was faster than ever in chat, so I'll take some blame if that wasn't coincidental).
The problem with the US legal system when it comes to civil cases, is that it requires a lot of legal and financial resources to fight back against institutions or corporate entities that have wronged an individual, even when a person's rights have clearly been violated. Most people do not have the millions of dollars needed to hire elite legal teams, pay the filing and court fees, as well as the time to spend as civil cases can drag on for years, especially if the entity you are trying to sue is purposely dragging out the proceedings so they can win by financial attrition.
I think they could be a good idea in areas where racially-motivated violence is common and widespread enough to have a terroristic, chilling effect on the general population. Like, for instance, the immediately antebellum south or whatever, where you really need to drive home to people "No we really were serious when we said you can't go around lynching the blacks".
Proton's free NL VPN is working superbly for me, just FYI. I agree that it's frustrating that we have to take these extra steps.
