Hate Speech on Campus

Student Sues School District for Banning Anti-War T-Shirt

As a freedom of speech country, each person in the United States has the right to speak up and give an opinion to other people, even to the government. For example, Alana Keynes wrote that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) suing Deaborn High School in Michigan because of sending home Bretton Barber, a junior at that school, wearing a T-shirt calling a President Bush an "International Terrorist" (582). That example proved that the States is a freedom of speech country.

To me, suing Deaborn High School, the school that Barber used to attend, is a proper action in order to protect Barber's free speech rights. The school has to realize that each person has a free speech right, so they do not have the authority to violate the right or else they can be sued. In addition, "precedent only permits schools to discipline students who are violating a written rule" (Keynes, 582). Therefore, actually Administrators did not have the right to send Barber home.

As a conclusion, in one side, live in free speech country makes people to think critically and have the courage to express their opinion, and in order to make that happen the States have to protect people's free speech rights. Besides, before people express their opinion, they have to consider the positives and negatives in advance so that there will be less of problems. That's the way how freedom of speech go in the united states of America so they become a great people who can think critically.

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