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Reason
Politics
Eugene Volokh

"Last Week, a … [UC Berkeley] Professor Confronted a Muslim Student During a Dinner for Graduating Law Students"

Here are the closing paragraphs of yesterday's NBC News article, "Columbia University protesters resume demonstrations after mass arrests":

Is this really a fair and objective summary of what happened at the Chemerinsky dinner? "Confronted a Muslim student," with no further explanation, strongly implies that the student was confronted for being a Muslim, rather than for trying to give a speech in the middle of a social occasion. I know of no evidence that Dean Chemerinsky or Professor Fisk (they are married) targeted the student for her religion, as opposed to her disruptive conduct.

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