Monday, September 18, 2006

"White slut" not a Slur

A story from Australia about the prosecution of an Aboriginal (black) girl who attacked a white woman:

"An Aboriginal girl who kicked a woman and called her a "white slut" did not engage in racial vilification because the slur was common street language.

A magistrate from the West Australian goldfields threw out a landmark race-hate charge yesterday against the 16-year-old, saying the slur against Kalgoorlie woman Melissa Blackney was "the patois of the street".

Source


I guess that calling someone a "n*gger" is street language too. So that would be OK then. Or have I missed something? SCOTUS likes foreign precedents so it would be interesting to see if they take up this particular Australian precedent.

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