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However , individuals are not governments .a simple fact that seems to elude Leo , as he assumes that every college that tries to prevent the inevitable riot from a hatemonger 's speech simply must be colluding with Congress to abridge the freedom of speech of said hatemongers . That the college might actually be attempting to preserve the life and liberty of its students seems the furthest thing from his mind

Perhaps most tellingly , Leo considers sexual harassment and discrimination as cases built simply built on hurt feelings , and thinks that any passionate

discussion of ideals would invariably incorporate denigrating comments . He zealously attacks concepts such as Affirmative Action without acknowledging that those policies owe their inception to the part of the Constitution that he doesn 't mention : the part that considered blacks to count as one third of a white person . He lauds conservative bake sales that charge less for women and minorities as ways of sticking it to the authorities , and seems to find it inconceivable that a horribly condescending reminder of racial inequity throughout the ages might constitute a form of harassment . According to the Declaration of Independence , what necessitates rebellion is a long train of abuses and usurpations , pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism ' Leo 's examples are rife with messages and speakers that are deliberately offensive to women and minorities , and perversely seems to see these as conservatism striking back at liberal control . Yet the conservative viewpoint , as imagined by Leo , truly does amount to endless abuses intended to (again , quite tellingly ) put women and minorities in their place . If such actions are enough to warrant bloody rebellion , surely students yelling really loudly or setting off fire alarms to cut off hate speech means that the conservative victims ' got...

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