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While I don't disagree with the point of the article, it seems that shooting down a bunch of undergrad student newspaper columns is needlessly punching down. When I was an undergrad, reading the daily student paper was a way to enjoy a parade of knee-slapping unintentional comedy and breathtakingly embarrassing writing.

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Agreed, but plenty of countries have these rules in law (you can maybe justify why Germany and Austria do, but not the rest of Western Europe). The US does too, but not explicitly, they are structured into in crimes of violating peoples' civil rights.

It's one of the great things about the USA that they at least have a determined effort to try to live up to embracing free speech. That's very difficult in practice

This isn't punching down because universities are breeding grounds for future ideologies. What is laughable to you and me is being taken seriously by university administrators, whether by agreement or fear of backlash. Open ridicule is how you deal with inane ideas, the far left deserve much more of it.

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