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DUMB COOKIES

Conservative students at SMU held a discriminatory bake sale to protest affirmative action. They charged white males $1/cookie, white women 75 cents, Latinos 50 cents, and blacks 25 cents. It was an obvious publicity stunt disguised as a consciousness raising protest.

And everyone followed the usual script. A black student got mad and complained to the university, which shut down the protest while hypocritically declaring its support for free speech. Press coverage followed. Here's the Dallas Morning News account. Eugene Volokh weighs in here.

D Magazine's Tim Rogers explained why everyone involved got what they wanted from the little stunt--and suggests a smarter response than squelching free speech.

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