# WV black lawmaker gets email with KKK graphic and anti-abortion message...also sues. Is this right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 21, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-black-lawmaker-gets-email-with-kkk-graphic-and-anti-abortion-message-also-sues-is-this-right/959845 "2022-02-21T00:09:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 103
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-black-lawmaker-gets-email-with-kkk-graphic-and-anti-abortion-message-also-sues-is-this-right/959845/103 "2022-03-04T00:18:05Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Outrageous, intolerable, indecent… are you saying that you think sending a KKK-themed image in order to tell a legislator who in fact IS a black woman (a curious distinction, I think) that you don’t like her behavior is: totally fine? Bad but only a little? Really quite bad, but just not outrageously bad in the constructed legal tort sense? ‘Sending a KKK themed image to tell a Black legislator you don’t like her abortion stance’ is not nuanced enough for me to say it’s okay or not okay. Emailing a KKK themed image with captions to tell a Black legislator you think her abortion stance is like the KKK’s abortion stance (hence the KKK themed image), seems insensitive and adversarial, and in this case probably untrue, but I don’t think it is outrageous, indecent, a threat of violence, or otherwise sufficient for damages and a restraining order. ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-black-lawmaker-gets-email-with-kkk-graphic-and-anti-abortion-message-also-sues-is-this-right/959845)._