© ReutersImage caption Russell's profile was updated with the lyrics in 2017
Chelsea Russell, 19, from Liverpool posted the lyric from Snap Dogg's 'I'm Trippin'' to pay tribute to a boy who died in a road crash, a court heard.
Russell argued it was not offensive, but was handed a community order.
Prosecutors said her sentence was increased from a fine to a community order "as it was a hate crime".
She was charged after Merseyside Police were anonymously sent a screenshot of her update.
'Grossly offensive'
Liverpool Justice Centre, sitting at Sefton Magistrates' Court, heard Russell posted the lyrics to her account after the death of a 13-year-old in a road accident in 2017, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The words Russell used on her account contained a racial label which some people find extremely offensive.
The screenshot was passed to hate crime unit PC Dominique Walker, who told the court the term was "grossly offensive" to her as a black woman and to the general community.
The Liverpool Echo reported that Russell's defence had argued the usage of the word had changed over time and it had been used by superstar rapper Jay-Z "in front of thousands of people at the Glastonbury Festival".
Prosecutor Angela Conlan said Russell's defence also argued her profile "wasn't public", but it had been proved in court that anyone could access it and "see the offensive language".
She said prosecutors also "sourced case law that showed that posting the profile on her account constituted sending it and making it public".
Russell was found guilty of sending a grossly offensive message by a public communication.
She was given an eight-week community order, placed on an eight-week curfew and told to pay costs of £500 and an £85 victim surcharge.
Comment: Give us a break! You're going to punish a teen for posting song lyrics on her social media? Is there no better use of the court's time? It is quite likely, given how common the use of the 'grossly offensive' word is in today's popular music, that the girl didn't even think about it as being a racist term (note that it doesn't seem to be considered racist when the rapper himself says it).
For those interested in reading the lyrics themselves, they can be found here (WARNING: Explicit). In all honesty, the gratuitous detailing of wanton violence is much more offensive in the lyrics than a couple of 'N-bombs'. Jordan Peterson was right: Hate speech will be policed by 'last people in the world you would want'. Because they're idiots.
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