[TheUglyAmerican]

"People are going to have a much harder time speaking their minds in this community," she says.
awww - boo-hoo, I'm sure this college professor would be shoulder to shoulder with a fellow professor that didn't tow the Marxoid line... or wish to make a display of faith - what a phony

[Hemingway's Ghost]

"People are going to have a much harder time speaking their minds in this community," she says.

The funny thing is that she assumes people from Amherst "speak their minds" in the first place. Amherst's legendarily stauch liberalism and uber-PC mindset make Edward Kennedy seem a palatable, patriotic free-thinker by comparison.

In Amherst, if you're not more liberal and correct than the average rabid N.O.W. member, it's not a question of speaking one's mind---it's assumed you don't have a mind in the first place. Amherst is every Massachusetts stereotype writ large, and I feel sorry for the good country folk that make up the vast majority of western Massachusetts' population and but a tiny sliver of Amherst's. They are good Shay's Rebellion folk, and they don't deserve this kind of crap.