Writing in the New York Times, Barnard College president Laura Ann Rosenbury issued a plea for America to embrace extremist speakers like Charlie Kirk on college campuses: "We Need More Like Him," it goes, "fostering dialogue" with "civil discourse." The incivility of what they might say during the civil discourse is immaterial to her, but I'm not here to criticize her faith in the congeniality of fascists. Instead, this analogy:

The claim: pointing out Kirk's "extreme views" such as "some gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for the right to bear arms" is like blaming a sexual assault victim for "wearing provocative clothes."

One doesn't need to be a top feminist legal scholar to notice a problem with this equivalence: enjoying a right is not the same as saying violence is an accep

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