The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, on whose board I serve, is shaming college administrators over their latest anti-satire campaigns: shutting down conservative students' bake sales, at which cookies cost less for blacks and Latinos than for whites and Asians. As Tim Rogers of D Magazine wisely pointed out when the SMU administration went crazy over a cookie sale last fall, minority students (or administrators) could quickly shut these sales down themselves, without giving the conservatives any good press, by buying up the inventory at those low, low prices: "All you needed was one black guy with $20 to walk up and buy every cookie they had. Bake sale over." Such creativity is apparently beyond the imagination of the sensitivity .
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