thunderclapReport on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business
Core of the lawsuit:
- Newspaper received a tip from a reader
- The reader alleged senator Tomczyk called a 13-year-old boy a homophobic three-letter word
- The senator denied this and demanded a retraction
- The paper kept their foot down and got sued
- witnesses to the incident recall Tomczyk calling the child a “removed” and prior usage of similar language
Tomczyk himself admitted in a deposition that he used the word occasionally.
Also worth noting he uses the word unapologetically to refer to his gay brother both "out of joking and out of spite."
It's a part of his normal vocabulary.
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