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That whiplash you’re experiencing? That’s from the jarring way you jerked your head when you saw the headline.

Yes – when you’re-not-allowed-to-drink-extra-large-sodas Michael Bloomberg says campuses are becoming too intolerant, then you know it’s out of control. Bloomberg doesn’t usually go around bashing liberal intolerance, so his talk to Harvard graduates at Thursday’s commencement is especially eye-catching.

CNN reports:

“This spring, it has been disturbing to see a number of college commencement speakers withdraw — or have their invitations rescinded — after protests from students and — to me, shockingly — from senior faculty and administrators who should know better,” Bloomberg said. …

“In each case, liberals silenced a voice — and denied an honorary degree — to individuals they deemed politically objectionable. This is an outrage,” Bloomberg said to applause. …

The former mayor, who received honorary degrees from Harvard along with seven others … spoke of the role of universities as places where people of all backgrounds and beliefs can freely debate ideas without that “sacred trust” being threatened by the “tyrannical tendencies of monarchs, mobs and majorities.” …

Bloomberg compared the intolerance of ideas prevalent in the country today to “McCarthy’s Red Scare” in the 1950s and its destruction of thousands of lives. In the 2012 presidential race, he said, the overwhelming majority of campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty went to Barack Obama.

“Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas, even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species,” he said.

Wow. Can you believe it? He’s right. Maybe it’s starting to sink in.

The question is – when will students, professors and administrators start making changes to address the persecution conservatives face at universities?

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