I support their right to free speech too, even if I disagree with it. Way to go NYU.

Pathetic. I know that there are workshop programs where people are blindfolded and taken into a remote woods and then chased by men and dogs to similate what an escaping slave would feel like. I read about Oprah participating in this a while back.[It must be an ongoing battle to remember what being powerless feels like on her part.] In this context the program is meant to be illucidating and to further compassion. This exercise in NY seems to be about hardening people to the feelings of marginalized others. However, perhaps if they get a little too zealous, too menacing, possibly roughing up the 'illegal' in their exuberance, the 'illegal' might actually and accidentally have an epiphony. I know it sounds hopelessly optimistic, but I'll cross my fingers.