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At Harvard, Obama Supported Speech Codes that Favor Minorities

Today in the Daily Caller, Charles C. Johnson reports on a panel about race and speech codes that Barack Obama participated in as a student at Harvard Law School.

At the height of early-1990s conservative backlash over political correctness and “speech codes” on U.S. college campuses, Barack Obama participated in a panel event geared toward denying that restrictions on free expression were problematic, or happening at all.

The 1991 Harvard Law School yearbook quoted the future President of the United States virtually shrugging his shoulders at the thought that non-liberal white students might take offense at restrictions on speech that minority students found objectionable. “I don’t see a lot of conservatives getting upset if minorities feel silenced,” Obama said, flipping the argument around.

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