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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) recently won a small victory for freedom of thought.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) recently won a small victory for freedom of thought. According to FIRE, students at the University of Delaware underwent a series of "treatments" (the university's term) designed to inculcate in them, among other things, a new understanding of what constitutes a racist: "A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., ...

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