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This is the justification for taking away your first amendment rights, it's in effect an attack on you and must be stopped. it's a micro aggression. >> the president made this point, the attorney general made this point. we're going to go after people who criticize and say mean innin things about islam. really? i thought i had first amendment rights. >> the past few weeks, there have been -- the nra terrorist cover. >> that was on friday. >> that was on friday. then the jihadi wayne cover and then famously, the god won't fix this cover showing the 2016 presidential candidates and their comment...

>> oh, yeah. i had some big years where lots of mustaches. >> i went as baberaham lincoln one year. like an abraham lincoln hat. >> i won an award in second grade for this costume which you could never do now. i went as a hobo. you remember people would go as hobos, you'd put ash on your face and have a pipe and a bi bindle and pillows and show up for -- if you did that now they'd go you're making fun of the homeless. >> micro aggression. >> get out of here. >> totally. >> i like the little kids, like my daughters in little princessy things. just going around. they seem so sweet, so innocent. ...

Racism. you don't realize some of your comments are aggressive acts, micro aggression. stephen colbert asked one of his guests about it. >> what's a micro aggression? >> it's someone with a foe par. micro aggressions are not the same as race i mean. it's hidden under the surface. >> i get saying to a black person you're so articulate is on noxious, but what i don't get is some of the other ones. give me an example. >> america is the melting pot. >> yeah, what's wrong with that? >> the implication that people should become part of the melting pot. i don't understand that i have to say. i think ...

Wednesday. then they started -- someone made the argument that it was offensive to middle eastern people even though middle eastern people were never referenced. it's a reference to the funny geico creature. so they canceled the event that people would be offended. >> local schools this is what you're finding a lot? >> yeah. i've done this for 15 years. it seems like the bar for being offended has gotten very, very low. >> because of some reward. >> oh, yes. i have been passing out some of these cards. you're a victim. you get out of responsibility. but what's in it for schools, students? >> y...

And now they're starting to be policed as a mechanism to say there was a micro aggression committed against me and posted on the internet. they seem to think this will increase dialogue? if you have to walk on eggshells and anything is a tiny form of violence people will stop talking to each other. john: recently an epidemic of sexual assaults on campus can be debated but many colleges pass rules or laws to protect women by defining consent is needed for a couple to have sexual relations. >> em lusby ongoing drought in activity. i guess they must say yes repeated the? [laughter] but it is a lo...