Tinker Vs Moines Essay

A friend in my school got in trouble for talking about “guns” or “gay people.” Is this a case of “Hate Speech,” and should he have gotten in trouble? Freedom of speech, part of the first amendment, allows people to speak their mind without repercussions. This right was put into the Bill of Rights because the founding fathers wanted the people to be able to voice their opinions about the government. Today people want the same thing, to be offered the right to voice their opinions Easily offended people and so-called “Hate Speech” are attacking our first amendment right. People in America are too easily offended by things that shouldn’t matter. According to a Newsweek article written by Buzz Brockway, “Chike Uzuegbunam attempted to share his …show more content…
KKK members are not the best people in the world, but they are still U.S. citizens and deserve the same rights. If this man wasn’t a KKK member he wouldn’t have been charged and that’s not right. A group of students from Des Moines High School decided to protest the Vietnam war by wearing black armbands. The school board met to create a policy that would outlaw armbands in the dress code. The students sued the school and went to the supreme court in the court case Tinker v. Des Moines and the supreme court judges claimed that the armbands “represented pure speech” and “the students did not lose their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech when they stepped onto school property.” Schools cannot take away any student’s first amendment rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution if the students aren’t breaking any laws. These court cases all had something to do with people’s first amendment rights being taken away without proper cause. I conducted a survey with various questions regarding the opinions of students at this school on the attack of the first amendment. In my research I asked if the first amendment should be left alone or if it should be tinkered