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Or, instead, get an official warning letter in your employment file if someone sees the book you’re reading about how students at Notre Dame University defeated the Ku Klux Klan in 1924 … and decides that a book with “Klan” and pictures of cross burnings on the cover<\/a> is actually racial harassment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(via George)<\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or, instead, get an official warning letter in your employment file if someone sees the book you’re reading about how students at Notre Dame University defeated the Ku Klux Klan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27010,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/the-kkk-may-be-declining-but-the-malady-lingers-on.html","url_meta":{"origin":13395,"position":0},"title":"The KKK may be declining, but the malady lingers on","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Mar-12 9:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Klan seems to be dwindling in chapters, and in numbers. 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