https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/04/chicago-schools-sue-over-breakup-of-league/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:11:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/04/chicago-schools-sue-over-breakup-of-league/comment-page-1/#comment-2661 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:11:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3327#comment-2661 Forced association, in my view, is one of the more absurd deviations from traditional notions of political freedom and individual rights. If you can’t make basic determinations about with whom you will live, work and play — even if those determinations are made for unpalatable reasons — the balance of your “freedom” starts to look pretty meaningless.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/04/chicago-schools-sue-over-breakup-of-league/comment-page-1/#comment-2660 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:44:42 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3327#comment-2660 South of Boston here, a number of communities have withdrawn their football teams from a league that included some urban schools specifically because of the aggressive, racially charged nature of the urban teams’ “competitiveness” (e.g., “let’s go out there and kick some white a**”). Of course, the urban teams claimed they were the victims of racial bias — but the suburban parents wondered why their 10 years old children should have to withstand racial epithets in the course of losing to superior teams by 20-40 points.

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