@lours_jo Of course it's not acceptable.

I'm not sure I had a point besides pointing out the contrast, but if I did, it would be that we need to draw a stronger distinction between behaviour that society finds unacceptable and behaviour that deserves jail time.

Obviously, I wasn't there; I don't know the details of your situation, but from the way you described it, it was just speech. And nobody deserves to be hauled off to jail for some mean words that didn't result in violence.

Then again, as I've learned over the years, the idea that governments shouldn't punish people for mean words is apparently a distinctly American ideal.