[lbo-talk] Ralph: Obama an Uncle Tom

[Andy]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> At 10:54 AM 11/6/2008, James Heartfield wrote:
>
>> Perhaps it is just that I am not victim to the peculiarly American belief
>> that it is words, not sticks and stones that hurt you.
>
> Being in the midst of studying defamation and hate speech laws in
> other common law countries (including James's), I'm finding this
> comment kind of amusing.

Isn't the US kind of on the mellow side of defamation law?

-- 
Andy