Read this thread from another forum and see how many people KNOW this guy is a rapist

2011-05-04T16:20:27+00:00

Please tell me you're not trying to accuse FARK of being feminist. That is the site where any female over 22 BMI is considered a blue whale. At least Reddit has that whole "I like real natural girls" thing.

barbadosslim · 2011-05-04T20:32:45+00:00

I fucking love r/mensrights

mean0dean0 · 2011-05-04T05:59:37+00:00

Damn, that's cold--not only did she lose against her guilty rapist, but now her parents have to pay back $45k for a frivolous lawsuit. Wouldn't want to be in her shoes--does FIRE do advocacy work for public school and K-12?

I know I sure as hell wouldn't have said his goddamned name. Unless it was in a spell that gave him some sort of supernatural syphilis...

BolshevikMuppet · 2011-05-04T17:50:20+00:00

The case would be more simple if this weren't a public high school. The applicable Supreme Court precedent allows for limitations on student speech when it is school-sponsored, but there's little out there where a school can compel speech. There is a case where a girl was forced to apologize for having violated the limitations on her valedictorian speech, but that's distinguishable.

I don't know the 5th Circuit well enough to speak with any specificity about it, but all the cases I know of are about suppressing student speech, rather than punishing a student for failing to engage in speech. In the context of <i>Hazelwood</i>, though, this decision makes little sense. Even in school-sponsored speech (and keeping in mind that even in the most expansive forum analysis under Hazelwood, there's no "mouthpiece" forum), the student cannot be compelled to speak the way the school wants him to.

As a cheerleader, her actions in uniform do bear the imprimatur of the school, but that does not give them the authority to compel certain speech, only to limit her speech rights pursuant to a legitimate pedagogical concern. I guess there'd be an argument that allowing her not to cheer would associate the school with a non-neutral viewpoint (i.e. that the player was guilty) but forcing her to cheer also associates them with a non-neutral viewpoint. And, it's important to remember that even in a non-public forum, the school cannot censor speech for its viewpoint.

The 5th Circuit got it wrong.

Title	Read this thread from another forum and see how many people KNOW this guy is a rapist
Author	purrit
Upvotes	15
Comments	6
Date	May 4, 2011 2:16 AM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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