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<p>How 'bout abortion clinic protests? Do those count?</p>
<p>As for anti-affirmative action protests, the "bake-sale" protests with posters offering cookies at different prices for students of different races strikes me as falling in the "confrontational" category, as well.</p>
<p>For the record, the last large scale "protest" at my daughter's "ultra left wing" school was a "sit-in" at the admissions office. To protest the decision to discontinue football. Oh, those wacky radicals.</p>
<p>This issue is just a big bogeyman. The Republicans play the matyr better than any other political group. So much so that they can't seem to let it go even when they control the Presidency, both houses of Congress, and most of the state governments.</p>