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By Rachel BuhleRachel BuhlesBuhles was a writer and a professor of communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her books include The Leftist Mind: The Rise and Fall of American Politics (2010) and Political Correctness: A Guide to the Resistance (2009).
You can follow her on Twitter @rachelbuhles.
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