Muslim students badgered the University of Michigan into canceling a showing of American Sniper April 10. The Clint Eastwood-helmed film was the top-grossing movie of 2014, racking up worldwide sales of more than $530 million. So the Michigan agitators’ effort has to be filed under the category of shutting the barn door after the cow’s out. I suspect most everyone who would have wanted to see the film in Ann Arbor probably already has. What’s hard to stomach is the turgid rhetoric, complete with the obsessive acronyms and victimology that typifies these campus dustups:

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