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Michelle Mallkin notes an incident at a Kentucky college, in which a professor brought her graduate class out to destroy a pro-life display of crosses, placed with the permission of the University administration:<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the article she links, plus the salient passage:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sally Jacobsen, a longtime professor in NKU’s literature and language department, said the display was dismantled by about nine students in one of her graduate-level classes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

"I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Jacobsen said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether she participated in pulling up the crosses, the professor said, "I have no comment."<\/p>\n

She said she was infuriated by the display, which she saw as intimidating and a "slap in the face" to women who might be making "the agonizing and very private decision to have an abortion."<\/p>\n

Jacobsen said it originally wasn’t clear who had placed the crosses on campus.<\/p>\n

She said that could make it appear that NKU endorsed the message.<\/p>\n

Pulling up the crosses was similar to citizens taking down Nazi displays on Fountain Square, she said.<\/p>\n

"Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged," Jacobsen said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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