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James Taranto has an excellent analysis of the controversy at NYU over Professor Tunku Varadarajan’s column on the Fort Hood massacre. In “The ‘Diversity’ Sham,” he notes NYU President John Sexton’s timorous reply – “I found it offensive, too” – and points out the problem with ‘diversity’ in higher education:

This is how “diversity” works in practice: Intellectual contention is drowned out in a sea of emotion, much of it phony. Members of designated victim groups respond to a serious argument with “pain” and “shock” and accusations of “hate,” and university administrators make a show of pretending to care.

Taranto’s article comes at a good time, as hate studies is now somehow an academic discipline…