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Offlinelonestar2004
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Nigga word costs $150
    #7888345 - 01/16/08 01:55 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

N-word costs $150

Racial slur leads to fine for NJ man

A man who decided to use a racial slur learned a costly lesson.
The man called a Passaic Public Works employee the N-word, and that's when the worker got even.
New Jersey reporter Toni Yates has the story.
Department of Public Works employee Aregawi Kishen says he took his complaint to a judge to make a point.




The N-word is a word that comes with a negative affect," he said.
He hopes the Clifton man who called him by the racial slur back in September got more than the $150 fine. He hopes he also learned a permanent lesson.
Kishen says he doesn't know how the encounter digressed in the first place. He said he had his truck parked on the corner of Washington and Hoover streets. He doesn't even think the truck was blocking the man's car.
But he says the man jumped out and hit him with a barrage of racial slurs.
"He got angry and he called me a million names, and finally the N-word," Kishen said.
Passaic joined that surging nationwide effort last year to ban the N-word. But to be fined for using it? Passaic mayor Sammy Rivera, who appointed the judge who leveled the fine, agreed with the action.
"At least fined," he said. "It's everybody's city, everybody's country.''
"All the lives we lost behind that," one area resident said.
The resident spoke openly and honestly outside City Hall about how stinging the word can be.
"I even went to jail behind that," he said. "Honestly, for a caucasian calling me that. Me acting out on it got me four years in prison.''
Kishen's case was decided yesterday. He feels comfortable now putting the matter to rest and forgiving his offender.
"The gentleman, he apologized," he said. "And apology accepted, move on.''

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=5893113


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7888356 - 01/16/08 01:59 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

wonder if u could get fined if u call a white person nigger
prolly not, and therefore thats a racist decision the judge made


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7888358 - 01/16/08 02:00 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

this is bullshit.

you can say it in a rap song, but if you say it on the street you get a fine?

how does one ban a word?

how ignorant is that?

dont be a nigger and we wont call you a nigger..


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7888463 - 01/16/08 02:38 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

a law that would lead to a fine like that cannot be objectively/fairly enforced.:shrug:

nigger, LOL.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7888587 - 01/16/08 03:11 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

What ever happened to "sticks and stones"? This is childish.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7888601 - 01/16/08 03:15 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

> how does one ban a word?

Through fascism.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: Mushouse]
    #7888603 - 01/16/08 03:16 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Quote:

Mushouse said:
What ever happened to "sticks and stones"? This is childish.




we used them on the niggers.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7888797 - 01/16/08 03:53 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

This thread now requires that you use the word NIGGER in every sentence.

Niggers who can afford to say Nigger will. Like those rich nigger rappers. Those niggers will LOVE this, cause they alway like showing how much money they got, like with those nigger chrome spinners, and nigger grillz to cover up their bad nigger teeth.

Saying NIGGER now means you are rich.

This post cost me 1500 nigger bucks.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7888936 - 01/16/08 04:24 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

We should ban the word Shit too.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: Diploid]
    #7889001 - 01/16/08 04:36 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Quote:

Diploid said:
We should ban the word Shit too.




How about we just ban Fecal?


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7889270 - 01/16/08 05:31 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

I wonder if I'd get in trouble for yelling at someone:

"You fucking n-word. I hate n-words. Nappy headed n-words parking all over than damned place."

Where will this end?

Land of the (not so) free.


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2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7890201 - 01/16/08 08:35 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Quote:

drkrobotnik said:
Quote:

Mushouse said:
What ever happened to "sticks and stones"? This is childish.




we used them on the niggers.





thats just wrong:smirk:


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: Minstrel]
    #7890208 - 01/16/08 08:36 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

:rofl2:


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: Diploid]
    #7890221 - 01/16/08 08:38 PM (16 years, 16 days ago)

Diploid the term “n-word” has now become offensive to me.....


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7891796 - 01/17/08 05:01 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

> Diploid the term “n-word” has now become offensive to me.....

We can always ban you so that you are no longer offended.  :wink:

It all started when the FCC began to ignore the 1st amendment and began handing out fines to broadcasters that violated "decency" standards.  I can't help but compare this form of regulation to countries like China and Iran that are known for stifling speech based upon decency.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7892124 - 01/17/08 08:52 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

Yup, this is weak. It is not the job of the judicial system to police culture. It is the job of the judicial system to protect our constitutional rights.


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: lonestar2004]
    #7892133 - 01/17/08 08:58 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

moral of the story: "niggers can't park for shit".


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Re: Nigga word costs $150 [Re: Seuss]
    #7892227 - 01/17/08 09:32 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

ehh...

this is a far cry from china, where messages not just forms of articulating them are banned.

but yah.. this case is troubling, but the man was clearly being angry and indecent, so i can't condem it too much. It would be a far different matter if the man had approached the "victim" and explained why he didn't like niggers et cet.

In this case it was the intent to harm, with no substantive message (i.e. blacks are bad), that was the problem.

I still think personal insults like this should be handled at the civil level. It is interesting to note, however; that an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim probably wouldn't have succeded in this case, as the conduct wasn't outrageous enough.

I have a problem when the civil bar is raised above the criminal bar for a succesful case. i.e. statutes of limitations that are less w/ civil than criminal.

in my opinion, a shift towards self-prosecuted crimes might not be a bad idea (like the greeks, I believe)


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