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I'm not calling them idiots because they don't like affirmative action. I'm calling them idiots because this was a horribly ineffective and verging-on-racist way of saying that they don't like affirmative action.
Universities have the right to restrict speech (generally they only use it to restrict hate speech) in order to maintain a "safe learning environment." The reason the policy was put into effect was a situation where, in a discussion section, some kid decided to rant about why black people are bad and tie it into whatever it was that they were reading, which is "not conducive to the learning environment," LOL. Schools have the right to restrict free speech if it interferes with the learning process. It might not be "fair," but regardless of what you or I think, it's a policy that's out there and invoked fairly often in cases like this.
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