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…[T]he attempt by minorities of any kind - racial, political, religious, sexual - to pass legal restrictions on speech creates a self-constructed trap. It is a trap because politically once you have such restrictions in place the most important questions to ask are: Who is going to enforce them? Who is going to interpret what they mean? Who is going to decide whom to target?

The answer is: those in power. And what possible reason do minorities have to trust those in power? . . . .

. . .[D]uring the year that the University of Michigan speech code was in effect, ostensibly to create a safe harbor for blacks, there were more than twenty cases of whites charging blacks with racist speech, and the only two cases in which the rule actually resulted in punishing racist speech involved speech by or in behalf of blacks. In one of those cases, a black student was punished for using the term "white trash." Is that what the new advocates of speech restrictions had in mind? Not likely.