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I grew up in Toronto... not exactly genteel. I'm sure he had his "colours", but he didn't wear them during school time. Smart guy.
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I grew up in Toronto... not exactly genteel. I'm sure he had his "colours", but he didn't wear them during school time. Smart guy.
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Schools generally aren't in "Freedom of Speech" zones, and thus don't guarantee that right to anyone within them. Within the bounds of the Constitutions and the precedence set by the Supreme Court, this isn't a First Amendment issue.
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Bull****.
That had to do with the visibility of the Vietnam war and little else.
I could argue that mohawk is an expression of a political commitment to anarchy, that a shaved head and Doc Martens is an expression of the fraternity of the working class or that a "xXx" tattoo on the fist symbolizes an exprssion of anti-substance abuse.
I would be right.
However, CrustyMcDinosaur the supreme court judge wouldn't GIVE A ****. Because they're old ****ers, they have no idea what youth culture is like and they don't really give a ****.
Vietnam was something broad enough that those old ****s could understand, therefore they recognized it as speech.
It was an unrepresentative instance.
Freedom of speech is allowed once you turn 18, not a second before.