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Recently, oral arguments were heard regarding a case about license plates and the first amendment. The Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has challenged a rejection of their proposed plate that had images of the Confederate flag.
The Texas solicitor general argued that, "Messages on Texas license plates are government speech ... [because] Texas etches its name onto each license plate and Texas law gives the state sole control and final approval authority over everything that appears on a license plate.”
Please share your ideas/comments on this case or your views on vanity plates in general.
Story: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-confederate-license-plates-20150323-story.html
Case: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2014/2014_14_144
What a vanity plate is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_plate
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @07:10PM
So long as they're valid opinions, thats what we have now. The problem is, some people think that the idea that skin color, gender, and/or sexual orientation must be the same as theirs in order for a person to be human, and that people with different skin colors, genders, and/or sexual orientation aren't even human and deserve to be murdered or enslaved, is a valid opinion to have.
I have yet to hear a logically consistent explanation for how being a member of my species requires one to have a specific amount of melanin, a specific set of genitals, or to only love or engage in recreational activities with people of a specific gender.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @07:21PM
Just to be clear here, they can think whatever they want, but the key here is "deserve to be murdered or enslaved", eg, they are of the opinion that everyone they consider to be subhuman should be wiped from existence or enslaved. So long as their "opinion" is that certain people should not have freedom or life based on factors that are outside of everyone's control, it is invalid. Simply not liking or not wanting to be around certain people because of those factors would be fine, but wanting to deprive others of their freedom or life because of factors outside of their control is not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @07:33PM
So long as their "opinion" is that certain people should not have freedom or life based on factors that are outside of everyone's control, it is invalid.
I do not agree with their opinion either, but it is a subjective matter.