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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Supreme Court hasn't ruled if a student's hairstyle is protected speech under the 1st Amendment. This also raises a clear racial discrimination claim. I hope it gets to the Supreme Court, where one Justice wears a dreadlock-adjacent hairstyle, and other Justices claim to be free speech absolutists. [/quote]

Tinker vs Des Moines seemed to protect political speech. I think they'd have to make the claim that dreadlocks are political. I don't think that claim would be easy to defend, or even the claim that it's ethnic, given how many white people also wear dreadlocks-- it seems like a grooming preference and not an ethnic one. [/quote]
Given how many whites eat at Chinese restaurants , Indian restaurants, Mexican restaurants, etc., I don’t think Chinese, Indian, and Mexican food/cuisine is ethnic (following your logic).[/quote]

This isn't a good analogy. Black people eat at those restaurants too. But dreadlocks are a hairstyle, like a braid. They don't have a distinct ethnic origin. [/quote]

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