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Two Students Arrested For Shouting Vulgar, Racist Words

Ashe Schow
Two Students Arrested For Shouting Vulgar, Racist Words
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Two white University of Connecticut students were arrested Monday after playing a game where they shouted vulgar words, including racial epithets like the n-word.

Stupid? Yes! Racist and vulgar? Yes! But Illegal? Not usually, but Adam Steinbaugh of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reported that Connecticut has “a rarely-used, unconstitutional state law prohibiting ‘ridicule.’”

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