@notyourdaddy : Can one be charged with disorderly conduct for any “insensitive” remark that hurts somebody’s feelings, or does it only apply if the person whose feelings are hurt belongs to a minority group?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo_incident
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The “water buffalo incident” was a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Student Eden Jacobowitz was charged with violating Penn’s racial harassment policy. He had shouted, “Shut up, you water buffalo,” out his window to a crowd of mostly black Delta Sigma Theta sorority sisters creating a ruckus outside his dorm. Others had shouted at the crowd, including several who shouted racial epithets, but Jacobowitz was the only one charged.
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Jacobowitz explained his choice of “water buffalo” as from Hebrew slang, “Behema,” used by Jews to refer to a loud, rowdy person. He procured several expert witnesses who attested to this and others, such as Michael Meyers, who gave testimonies that “water buffalo” was not a racial epithet against African Americans.
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… welcome to America.
=darwin
