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Anti-Discrimination Laws Run Amok
Paul Secunda recounts an amazing tale of an Indiana University employee who was disciplined for reading a book that had the words Ku Klux Klan in the title, even though the book is anti-Klan, because it offended his Black co-workers. Wow.
Update: According to Eugene Volokh, who has the text of the relevant correspondence, the University is backing down.
Posted on Thursday, March 06 2008 | Permalink
This happened at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, which is a state school that has ties to both IU and PU but is run as a separate, stand-alone school. Neither IU nor PU administration would have been involved in this.
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...and they should back down. I’m not against all types of this kind of institutional pressure, but this is a bit ridiculous.