The con we pulled on America just won’t die.

Bill Pruitt, a former producer for The Apprentice whose NDA just expired after 20 years, writes in Slate that Donald Trump used the n-word during the production of the show — and there are tapes of him doing it.

  • cmac@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Hate speech in the United States

    In a Supreme Court case on the issue, Matal v. Tam (2017), the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no “hate speech” exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment and that the U.S. government may not discriminate against speech on the basis of the speaker’s viewpoint.

    It’s not a crime on its own in the US, but if it incites imminent lawless action that can be a crime.