That phrase is one of the sillier elements of the Sensitivity Weenies' toolkit against campus incivility and other affronts to the effete snobs.
Apparently, though, there is a Connecticut law that might cover the situation. "Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor." I forget whether Connecticut's hierarchy of misdemeanors is an A-worst, or A-least-bad ladder. Clearly unconstitutional, notes a law professor at ZooConn.
As far as the hierarchy of misdemeanors, the language of the "ridicule statute," which appears to apply to commercial speech, reads enough like contemporary hate crime laws and the diversicrats' incivility ukases, that "inappropriately directed laughter" is evidently a greater faux pas than farting in church. (Given Connecticut's Puritan past, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a law dealing with that!)
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