Why Did John Rawls Tolerate Hate Speech? Liberals, Learn from His Mistakes.

John Rawls (Jane Reed/Harvard file photo)

In a February 1991 issue of the Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, undergraduate Benjamin O. Davis reported on a controversy involving a Kirkland House resident, Bridget L. Kerrigan ’91, who flew a confederate flag outside of her dormitory window. A year later, the Crimson issued a follow-up piece reporting that Kerrigan…