To understand the legal history of the word "fuck," says Harbeck, one must travel back to the 1942 Supreme Court case Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, a trial that established the definition of "fighting words."
Chaplinski, a Jehovah’s Witness, was convicted for calling a police officer a "goddamned racketeer and a damned fascist."
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Chaplinski, a Jehovah’s Witness, was convicted for calling a police officer a "goddamned racketeer and a damned fascist."