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Bucknell Shuts Down Free Speech
According to the students, the deans did hunt for 30 minutes to do it on a technicality! It's an affirmative action bake sale, mirroring affirmative action's affects. Groups are charged more or less for donuts depending on their race.

From FIRE, an organization committed to free speech of all people -- liberal, conservative, and other -- Adam Kissel writes:

Affirmative action bake sales are forms of protest that are protected by the First Amendment and by private universities' guarantees of freedom of expression. As we have said many times before, accusing organizers of a one-day bake sale protest of engaging in discrimination is insulting to victims of real discrimination, and doing so willfully censors the message of the protest. FIRE has won cases in this area consistently over our ten-year history, even at private colleges. Looks like Bucknell, if it actually values the free exchange of ideas, is going to be next.

Here's FIRE's YouTube channel, with my pal Greg Lukianoff. The vid there continues with a case of victimist propaganda at the University of Delaware -- one that forced straight white guys to see just what bad people they are...all in the name of anti-discrimination. Do your best to stomach the music and all. They've got very good intentions -- and policy -- at FIRE.

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