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To answer your question, they did not explicity say why the teacher should be protected from a word being hurled at her. However, after re-reading the article I find the answer in your question in the fact that the young man was being charged with a hate crime. Basically, I think, that had he written something not related to her race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation or gender, he would not be being prosecuted. However, if this hate crime law is like the one proposed in TX, the very use of that sort of word constitutes a crime. That, coupled with the vandalism: and voila..a young man on trial.
and it my mind...deservingly so.
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