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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsRacial Sensitivity Gone Berserk
By Ed Brayton
This is an unbelievable story, but it's true. A janitor and part-time student at IUPUI, a college in Indianapolis, was told by the school's affirmative action office that he was guilty of racial harassment for reading a book about the KKK - a book about how Notre Dame defeated the KKK in 1924 - "in the presence of black employees." No, I'm not making this up. Read the letter that he received from that office in November of last year.
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