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But Buckley did give conservatives permission to consider as madness the Birchers’ tendency to see anything they disfavored as a communist plot.

But the compact explicitly forbids schools from disfavoring students based on “gender identity,” promoting neutrality toward gender identification outside of women’s spaces.

It violates the Supreme Court’s long-established precedents on the freedom of citizens to donate reasonable amounts to political candidates, and it restricts the liberty of thousands of employees in a particular disfavored industry.

That shaving scene referenced earlier dramatizes why this and other supposedly neutral policies painfully disfavor some people without diving into a medical manual.

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“I am very concerned that these actions are meant to punish disfavored dissent,” said Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino.

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