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Originally Posted by Rekna
I don't know about your schools but mine had a handbook that had rules, a couple of the rules were "Failure to listen to faculty can result in disiplinary action" and "Anything not covered in this handbook can be delt with disiplinary action" (aka elastic clause).
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Just because a school has put something in their rulebook does not mean they have a legitimate power to compell students to comply. The question is no whether the school had rules against it, or if the school told the girl not to wear the dress. Those are accepted facts of the case. The question is whether or not the school has any authority to enforce such rules or orders outside of the school. A further question would be whether schools have the authority to enforce such rules
inside the schools, either.
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Originally Posted by Rekna
Would it be ok for me to wear a shirt with a picture of Bin Laden on the front and 2 thumbs up on the back? There are no words on it yet it would cause a problem. Freedom of speach can not be used as a legal reason for saying something if that something would reasonibly [incite] violence or hatred.
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Would it be ok for you to wear a shirt with a picture of Bush on the front and 2 thumbs up on the back?
To the extent that a t-shirt (or a dress) causes disruption, it is caused by
the reactions of other students. So if someone wore either of those shirts, and disruption resulted, it should be
suggested to the student to turn your shirt inside out, wear your jacket, etc. and the students who participated in the disruption (which may or may not include the student wearing the shirt) should be disciplined appropriately.
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Originally Posted by Kadath
To those who claim the Confederate battle flag (thank, BOR) is a symbol of Southern pride, not of racism, I offer you the swastika, which was, among other things, a Buddhist religious symbol before the Nazis adopted it. Southerners, find another way to celebrate your pride in your birthplace, because racist jackholes have ruined that one.
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Just to clarify, the wheel of life
IS a Buddhist religious symbol. The way to "ruin" a symbol is to supress its use except to represent the offensive interpretation in a negative context. If people wish to recover inoffensive/positive meaning for a symbol, they have to use it in inoffensive/positive ways. The fact that ignorant people may choose to misinterpret the symbol in ways they find offensive is a seperate problem... and it should be up to the people trying to use the symbol in an inoffensive/positive way to decide how to deal with it.