"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." -Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewa…
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." -Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964
This is an often-used standard which often seems reasonable as a test for many things, including racism. The problem lies in the fact that people tend to see what they are looking for thru the filters of their biases.
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." -Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964
This is an often-used standard which often seems reasonable as a test for many things, including racism. The problem lies in the fact that people tend to see what they are looking for thru the filters of their biases.