This all reminds one of how, when the Left was in the minority in American academe, the ACLU championed free speech, then turned on a dime in the 1980s and defended all of the most extreme forms of censorship by political correctness on college campuses once their cultural Marxist brothers and sisters captured most of American academe.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/free-speech-hypocrites/