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I can't believe what you just said about public versus private institutions. You seem to think that restrictions on speech in the public sphere should be stricter than in the private sphere. You've got it backwards.

Private colleges do have and should have the right to adopt broad speech codes if they wish to do so. State funded colleges should not have such a right. The public area should be as open as possible, with the fewest restrictions on speech.

If black Americans could demand that the university restrict speech that insults them, so could every other group of citizens. Business people could demand that capitalism not be insulted. Patriots could demand that American foreign policy not be criticized. The KKK could demand that their members not be insulted. The logic of your position leads to all sorts of undesirable consequences.

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